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The Wars of the Roses
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4321
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
I have House of Lanyan on my TBR pile - is it one of those books which you either love or hate?
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
[quote=""Vanessa""]I have House of Lanyan on my TBR pile - is it one of those books which you either love or hate?[/quote]
I've read other books by Anand and enjoyed them very much. This one I just found way too predictable I could see every plot twist coming a mile away. That, and the fact that I didn't care for any of the characters just made for a very blah read for me.
Although it could just be me. Everyone has gone gaga over Mistress of the Sun and me, well it made the list.

I've read other books by Anand and enjoyed them very much. This one I just found way too predictable I could see every plot twist coming a mile away. That, and the fact that I didn't care for any of the characters just made for a very blah read for me.
Although it could just be me. Everyone has gone gaga over Mistress of the Sun and me, well it made the list.


- diamondlil
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2642
- Joined: August 2008
I really hated the first half of the first book in the Posie Graeme-Evans trilogy, then loved the second half. I liked the second book but for some reason haven't been inspired to pick up the third yet.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
The author plays very fast and loose with the history doesn't she? I've read and been underwhelmed by the second one - The Exiled - and was very surprised to come across a detailed scene with a prosperous Jew - 150 years after the Jews were all expelled from England. I also understand from friends who know the history of the time better than me that the actual likelihood of Henry VI having a bastard daughter are very remote and totally out of known character.
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
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Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
- Margaret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2440
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: I can't answer this in 100 characters. Sorry.
- Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
- Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
- Location: Catskill, New York, USA
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Henry VI with a bastard daughter! That does seem preposterous. I'm not an expert in this period, but he seems to have been (a) so mindlessly pious he would have been happier as a monk and (b) so mentally frail for most of his life that he was kept on a pretty tight rein by his wife and counsellors.
Perhaps we should have a thread on preposterous historical novels, as there are quite a few of them. One which I thought was particularly ridiculous (I don't recall the author or title) was set during the Civil War between Stephen and Matilda and based on the theory that they were secretly in love with each other.
Perhaps we should have a thread on preposterous historical novels, as there are quite a few of them. One which I thought was particularly ridiculous (I don't recall the author or title) was set during the Civil War between Stephen and Matilda and based on the theory that they were secretly in love with each other.
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[quote=""Margaret""]Perhaps we should have a thread on preposterous historical novels, as there are quite a few of them. One which I thought was particularly ridiculous (I don't recall the author or title) was set during the Civil War between Stephen and Matilda and based on the theory that they were secretly in love with each other.[/quote]
I've read that book and it's sequel. Don't forget that the author made Henry Stephen and Maude's child
I read the sequel as well and that was even worse. She had Eleanor going on Crusade and having icky sexual type stuff going on with her uncle.
I've read that book and it's sequel. Don't forget that the author made Henry Stephen and Maude's child

