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Lucy Scott
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Vanora Bennett
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Vanora Bennett brings to life a time of passions and politics, a time of turmoil and tension. A world in flux and a country up fro grabs.
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All that history knows of Grace Plantagenet is that she was an illegitimate daughter of Edward IV and one of two attendants aboard the funeral barge of his widowed queen. Thus, she was half sister of the famous young princes, who, when this story begins in 1485, had been housed in the Tower by their uncle, Richard III, and are presumed dead. But in the 1490s, a young man appears at the courts of Europe claiming to be Richard, duke of York, seeking to claim his rightful throne from England's first Tudor king.
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1 out of 5 stars
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NOT WORTH 1 CREDIT, MUCH LESS 2
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Bird Lady 147
- 02-21-21
Performance is good
...But the audio quality of some of these older books isn’t very good. I listened to this many years ago and I don’t remember the audio annoying me as much. This may be due to not having much to compare it to back then? I find now I can no longer listen to even slightly distorted audio I really like clean clear crisp audio. However I do remember liking this story at the time. Who knows sorry I know my reviews are useless.
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Total2 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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Historia2 out of 5 stars
- Kristina
- 08-18-21
Thank goodness for the fast forward button
I can’t figure out what this books wants to be…but it isn’t good. At the beginning I thought it might be a religious story, but these two teenage girls “sold” into marriage by their father appear to enjoy sex too much for that. Then it’s going to be about the intrepid heroine becoming an empowered businesswoman (hardly likely in the 1400s). I did have hopes that I might learn something about the silk industry, but that storyline is really just background texture. Nope, this story is about a weak woman masquerading as a strong woman who is desperate to stay the mistress of an evil tyrant who doesn’t even seem to care about her. Maybe it all comes together in the end, but I just can't get there with this book.
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