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The Bookseller's Sonnets (2010)

by Andi Rosenthal(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1846943426 (ISBN13: 9781846943423)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Roundfire Books

review 1: This was an interestingly written book bringing together story lines from Tudor England, the Holocaust and current day. It was difficult to read at times because the stories it portrayed were heartbreaking. The main characters(s) are flawed in a very real way which makes the story that much more readable. It's an interesting story about the intermingling of Jewish and Christian life and the implications of such overlap...from the 1500s to today.
review 2: Enjoyed this contemporary view of old and more recent history. The protagonist, Jill, is at once very smart and talented, but naive and melodramatic in her emotional swings which I found a little annoying. I very much enjoyed the Tudor history and learning about the ways in which the conversos played (or... more MAY have, as the factual material is blended with the fictional) a role in facilitating the divorce of King Henry VIII from his Spanish queen. The ending was predictable, but that didn't detract from my enjoyment. It was good storytelling, exploring some of the nuances and some history of interfaith relationships in a new way. I wouldn't call this a profound piece of literature, by any measure, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. less

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