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A bit of an overly romanticized take on the Woodvilles, although its very refreshing to read a book on the Wars of the Roses without Elizabeth and her mother Jacquetta whistling up storms and casting love potions. No *woe is me* either :p The White Rose begins in 1461 shortly after Edward IVs victory at the Battle of Towton. Widowed Elizabeth Woodville meets the new king when pleads for the return of her lands so she can support herself and her two young sons. Edward is immediately smitten with Elizabeths great beauty and weds her in secret - much to the eventual chagrin of his advisors who hoped to marry him to a foreign princess. Elizabeth is eventually crowned queen and begins having one baby after another while her family rises high in Edwards service, causing friction and resentment among the rest of the nobility. For those familiar with the period you know the basics and for those who arent its much too complicated and spoilerish to give all the details. As refreshing as it was to read about the Woodvilles without them snarling in their evilness or casting spells, they were just too OTT in their saintly goodness - and that is the great flaw in this book. The Woodvilles and that upstart Henry Tudor = very very good, wonderful caring people. Clarence and Buckingham = silly buffoons (and a drunk one in Clarences case). Richard III = very very bad, a dreadful evil tyrant that everyone in the Kingdom hated. So if youre one of those enamored by the saintly Richard painted by some of todays latest and *cough* greatest historical fiction authors, Id say this is probably not the book for you. I did enjoy this book and would recommend it for first time readers looking to get a basic grounding on the period, since its lighter on the battles and the intrigues you can just concentrate on who is who. Im not a scholar of the period but outside of the type-casting I didnt catch anything out of place either. Still tops with me for novels on this period is Penmans fabulous The Sunne In Splendour, with Tannahills Seventh Son and Whitfords Treason a close second and third, and Im anxiously awaiting Susan Higginbothams The Stolen Crown next year.
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