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itle: Tidelands
Author: Philippa Gregory
Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis: "On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life.
England is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. Alinor’s suspicious neighbors are watching each other for any sign that someone might be disloyal to the new parliament, and Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her as a woman who doesn’t follow the rules. They have always whispered about the sinister power of Alinor’s beauty, but the secrets they don’t know about her and James are far more damning. This is the time of witch-mania, and if the villagers discover the truth, they could take matters into their own hands."
Other books I have read by this author: The Other Queen, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Constant Princess, The Last Tudor, The Taming of the Queen, The Queen's Fool, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Lady of the Rivers, The White Queen, The Red Queen, The Kingmaker's Daughter, The White Princess, The Red Princess, The King's Curse, The Virgin's Lover, Three Sisters, Three Queens, Changeling, Stormbringer and Fool's Gold, Dark Tracks
itle: TidelandsAuthor: Philippa Gregory
Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis: "On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life.
England is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. Alinor’s suspicious neighbors are watching each other for any sign that someone might be disloyal to the new parliament, and Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her as a woman who doesn’t follow the rules. They have always whispered about the sinister power of Alinor’s beauty, but the secrets they don’t know about her and James are far more damning. This is the time of witch-mania, and if the villagers discover the truth, they could take matters into their own hands."
Other books I have read by this author: The Other Queen, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Constant Princess, The Last Tudor, The Taming of the Queen, The Queen's Fool, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Lady of the Rivers, The White Queen, The Red Queen, The Kingmaker's Daughter, The White Princess, The Red Princess, The King's Curse, The Virgin's Lover, Three Sisters, Three Queens, Changeling, Stormbringer and Fool's Gold, Dark Tracks
My Thoughts
Disappointing. Yep, I said it. As you can see from that intense list of books I've read by this author I keep coming back for more awesome historical fiction from her. After being disappointed by the Order of Darkness series, I was a little tentative picking up Tidelands, but I hoped since it was not written as YA fiction that this novel would satisfy my high expectations of the writing I've come to expect from Gregory's Cousin's War novels. My hopes were sadly dashed.
Disappointing. Yep, I said it. As you can see from that intense list of books I've read by this author I keep coming back for more awesome historical fiction from her. After being disappointed by the Order of Darkness series, I was a little tentative picking up Tidelands, but I hoped since it was not written as YA fiction that this novel would satisfy my high expectations of the writing I've come to expect from Gregory's Cousin's War novels. My hopes were sadly dashed.
This novel is set during the English Civil War, which I was super excited about. Unfortunately, this story is the played-out 'women have no rights at this time and an unmarried woman is in a precarious situation, especially in a small town' storyline just set in English Tidelands. There was nothing fresh about this novel, it was entirely predictable. Now, I understand that in historical novels you may know the outcome of the historical event, but that doesn't mean that every aspect of the story had to be predictable on the way there. Honestly, I couldn't wait to finish this book and move on to another. I think Gregory works best in the parameters of filling in the blanks of the life of historical figures in biographical fiction than creating interesting characters of her own. I have no interest in reading the rest of this series in the least.
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To buy this book from Amazon now, click on the image at the top of the post.
To see more from the author, visit the website linked above
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