Author: Alexa
Schnee
Genre: Life,
romance
My rating
on a 1-10 scale: 8
Type: Historical
fiction
Number of
pages: 360
Time
period: 1500’s
My overall
opinion: I had hoped to enjoy this book more. One thing I greatly
appreciated about it was that it had absolutely no seduction or bedroom scenes.
Scratch that – there was one time when Emilia was in a man’s room in bed with
him, but they were laying there talking, not doing other stuff. So that was
nice. However, I was unimpressed with the morals of the 1500’s – they had
practically none. But that’s historical, not a fault of this book. It was an
interesting story, and I’m glad I read it…but I don’t know if I’ll keep the
book, since I didn’t love it. All the details about the customs and dress of
that time were very interesting! In her end note, the author says the main
female character was real, but whether or not she had anything with Shakespeare
is unknown. They definitely knew each other, though! Oh that reminds me…she is
married to another man. But “loves” Shakespeare, and ends up sleeping with him
(though no description). It’s not really pointed out as wrong, but… yeah. So I
don’t know if you’ll want to read it or not! But it was interesting to see
Queen Elizabeth I from this point of view!
1 comment:
Charity,
I am so glad that you take time to point out what could be objectionable to younger readers - I am 'young' and my parents are very particular about what I read (which I have no problem whatsoever with - I'm glad that they care enough about me to protect me in that way). Normally, I wouldn't give a book that had that title a second thought, but now I'm going to see if my library has it. Thanks again!
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