Secrets Of The Tudor Court (6 books in series)
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review 1: From beginning to end, this was a fluffy book that made for painful reading.It is the story of Jane Popyncourt, who flees 1500's France to England with her mother at a young age. There, she does her best to blend into the royal court of King Henry VIII.I was bored by the hollow c...
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review 1: This is the first book in the Secrets of the Tudor Court series. Jane arrives at the Tudor court from France with her mother as a young child. She grows up with and tutors the royal children, and when her mother dies unexpectedly, becomes a ward of the royal court. As she grows o...
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review 1: I really enjoyed this book! It's a bit more political and less romance than the first book in the series, but it's still very good. I like how the author included a lot of details about how the members of the court lived beck then; she discusses everything from the type of fabric...
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review 1: 3.5 stars. Easy to read & some exciting parts. Second half seemed rushed & had quite a few complicated & confusing sentences. A table of characters & their changing titles would have been more beneficial than maps at the beginning of the book, also dates at the beginning of each ...
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review 1: The story-Lady Anne Stafford, sister to the Duke of Buckingham, is desired by both Henry VIII and his courtier, Will Compton. Her decision, to either have an affair or not, will impact her life and marriage in unthinkable ways. I enjoyed the storyline but didn't feel as though th...
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review 1: While I like this addition to Emerson's "Secrets of the Tudor Court" series, I found this offering a bit disjointed. There were many foci in the story, I really wish there was only one main focus or maybe a secondary one. With the way it is written, there are multiple storyline...