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“Family. The greatest loyalty after God in the world.” Blood & Beauty is everything a good historical novel should be. The book is well-written and well-researched, with a clear storyline that sweeps the reader through Alexander VI’s early papacy and its effect on the Borgia family. It is 1492, and a new pope...
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As a reader and lover of fictional history, I try to select both male and female writers that offer mature and creative approaches to the genre. Melanie Benjamin has provided a most refreshing treatment of perhaps the world’s most famous man and the woman who lived in the shadow of his fame. The...
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“The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.” The White Queen is the story of Elizabeth Woodville, the commoner and former Lancaster...
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The King's Daughter. A Novel of the First Tudor Queen by Sandra Worth (✬✬✬✬) Although history doesn’t reveal much about Elizabeth of York, Sandra Worth has crafted a novel that delves deep into the past, from Edward IV to Richard III and Henry VII. Steeped in solitude and personal loss, Elizabeth of York...
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