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The People's Queen (2010)

by Vanora Bennett(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0007311214 (ISBN13: 9780007311217)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harper Collins Publishers LTD

review 1: I tried to finish this book but I was unable to get through it. Surprisingly it took 20 pages to realize what was bugging me; it was the writing style. I read the first 101 pages and I just could not ignore it. My main problems were tenses, the author could not decide what tense she wanted to write in; past or present. It was really frustrating because she would start a paragraph off using present and by the end of the paragraph she was writing in past tense. Also, she wrote in third person. For example, she would write Alice thought it was nice out today or Alice had decided to talk to the king. These sections were in Alice's point of view and the author thinks that she thinks of herself as Alice not as I (ex. I think it is nice out today or I am going to talk to the kin... moreg). This bugged me because like the tenses she switched back and forth; also all the characters thought like this it was not just Alice. Finally, I did not like how the dialogue was set up in this novel. Generally when a person is speaking in a novel a new paragraph starts. This was not the case in The People's Queen, it really bugged me. I felt that it had grammatical errors because of this, there did not seem to be proper quotation marks. I however felt that if these things did not bug me so much I might have been able to finish the book and might have given it a more positive review.
review 2: It's hard to explain why I struggled with this book. The historical period is interesting, Alice Perrers is a good base for a story, but this is very hard going. There is so much description of how the characters are feeling, so very little conversation. A lot of dry background and not much to get you emphasising with the characters. I got sick of the phrase, 'It's only then'. It's only then that he/she thinks/feels/realises/understands. If you'd like to read a historical fiction based on Alice Perrers, Emma Campion's 'The King's Mistress' beats this hands down. less

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