Tanzanite's Reads - 2008

[Tanzanite]

Reviews for each are on my blog.

Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart
Jane Seymour - Frances Clark
Ireland - Frank Delany
The Scarlet Lion - Elizabeth Chadwick
William Marshal - NF - David Crouch
We Speak No Treason - Rosemary H Jarman
Richard III - NF - Anthony Cheetham
The Edge of Light - Joan Wolf
Tatiana and Alexander - Paullina Simons
Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert massie
Witch Queen - Maureen Peters
Wind from Hastings - Morgan Llywelyn
My Lady of Cleves - Margaret C Barnes
Hugh and Bess - Susan Higginbotham
The Saxon Shore - Jack Whyte
The Queen's Cross - Lawrence Schoonover
The 12th Transforming - Pauline Gedge
The Queen who Never Was - Maureen Peters
The Princes in the Tower - Alison Weir
Rose without a Thorn - Jean Plaidy
The Lord of Greenwich - Juliet Dymoke
The Romanov Bride - Robert Alexander
Dreaming the Eagle - Manda Scott
Mistress of the Revolution - Catherine Delors
Lords of the White Castle - Elizabeth Chadwick
The Lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir
Helen of Troy - Margaret George
la Reine Margot - Alexander Dumas
Druids - Morgan Llywelyn
Queen's War - Jeanne Mackin
Eleanor of Aquitaine - NF - Marion Meade
The White Rose - Jan Westcott
St Thomas's Eve - Jean Plaidy
Henry VIII - NF - Lacy Smith
Leonardo's Swans - Karen Essex
Murder of a Medici Princess NF - Carolyn Murphy
The Hollow Hills - Mary Stewart
Within the Hollow Crown - Margaret C Barnes
Shadow Patriots - Lucia St Clair Robson
His Excellency, George Washington - Joseph Ellis
In the Shadow of the Crown - Jean Plaidy
Mary Tudor - NF HFM Prescott
The Conqueror - Georgette Heyer
The Last Queen - CW Gortner
The October Horse - Colleen McCullough
Time and Chance - Sharon Kay Penman

[Telynor]

How was Shadow Patriots? I've read other books by LSt.CR, and enjoyed them (Fearless and Ride the Wind).

[Tanzanite]

I really liked it - it's not your typical American Revolution novel.

[Tanzanite]

In September I read:

Lionheart - Martha Rofheart
The Ivy Crown - Mary Luke
The Heretic Queen - Michelle Moran
The Seventh Son - Reay Tannahill

[Telynor]

Mary Luke has been one of my favourite authors about the Tudors, and I've enjoyed reading The Ivy Crown several times over. I've always wondered what happened to Mary Seymour...

[Tanzanite]

For October:

Devil's Brood - Sharon Kay Penman
Pope Joan - Donna Cross
The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory
Beneath a Marble Sky - John Shors
Gildenford - Valerie Anand
The King's Pleasure - Norah Lofts

[Michelle2]

How did you like The King's Pleasure?

[Tanzanite]

I liked it - better than her Eleanor the Queen, but not better than The Concubine.

[Tanzanite]

I only read 3 books in November (although one of them was almost 800 pages!). Reviews are on my blog.


Catherine of Aragon (non-fiction) - Garrett Mattingly
The Summer Garden - Paullina Simons
On a Highland Shore - Kathleen Givens

[Carine]

Hi Tanzanite,

I would be interested to know how you liked On a Higland Shore by Kathleen Givens, I have it sitting on my TBR shelf for a while already.

[Tanzanite]

Carine,

I thought it was good. I don't know very much about Scottish history so I can't comment as to the historical accuracy of the book, but I did find it very interesting. This isn't a bodice-ripper romance book; there is a romantic element to the story but the couple actually don't spend that much time together in the book. The story is set in 1263 and focuses on raids on the country by the Norse/Vikings.

[Carine]

Thanks Tanzanite !