Emily P. (mizparker) reviewed on 11/15/2008 + 87 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

This one is part of the Tudor series. It didn't suck me in as well as The Other Boleyn Girl, The Constant Princess, or The Boleyn Inheritance. This book takes place at the end of Queen Mary's reign and before Queen Elizabeth's. Robert Dudley has met young Hannah Green, a bookkeeper's daughter and a psychic, and commissioned her to be Queen Mary's little pet. Encouraged to use her gift of sight for what amounts to heresy, and torn between two women she admires, the man she adores (handsome Robert Dudley), and the man she is engaged to marry, Hannah finds herself in quite a mess.

In all fairness, this was a terrific story. Part of the reason I wasn't as absorbed is that in the other books, one has a framework of historical facts that the story is constructed on. In this one, Hannah Green isn't a person whom we have proof of existing in the real history of the time. That it seems to be complete fiction rather than mostly fiction (like the rest of the series) shouldn't color your opinion.

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