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Roanoke: A Novel Of Elizabethan Intrigue (2009)

by Margaret Lawrence(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0385342373 (ISBN13: 9780385342377)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Delacorte Press

review 1: This had all the usual potential to be a book I would love, but it fell flat. Not sure how much is due to sporadic reading time and interruptions and how much to lack of plot and character development in the writing. Somewhat corny and predictable. Intrigue and polotics at court on one side of the ocean; colonists with competing priorities facing the unknown with insufficient resources and little grounding in reality meet up with politics and intrigue among the natives on the other side of the ocean. This should have been a great book. Maybe I was just too distracted to appreciate it.
review 2: I'll read any novel about Queen Elizabeth. Heck, my facebook quiz even said I'm her in a previous life! lol. This adult novel follows Gabriel, a spy from the Elizab... moreethan age as he and a coworker travel to and from Roanoke, Virginia to spy for the queen. She plays a minor character in the novel. It focuses on Gabriel and his role in some political and economical turmoil that always follows a royal court. If you're a historical fiction fan, read it. less

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