The continous device of writing in the first person, and in the present tense, is massively irritating, cheap, and a complete turn-off. Her realisation of these things, especially in The Lady of the Rivers, is interesting and attractive.īut her writing style is just AWFUL! It spoils any enjoyment that there might have been in the content. I am a person who never gets rid of a book unless it is just too awful, and I know it will never be read again, and I love all historical books, as long as they are well written, and have an intrinsic integrity.Īll I can say here is that The Lady of the Rivers was marginally more interesting than The Red Queen, and that Gregory certainly has strength in her powers of imagining people, places, and situations, about which we have only the flimsiest of genuine knowledge - if any at all. Won't bore anyone with the reasons for this unwonted capitulation! Having now read both books, they will go straight to the charity shop, for redistribution. Having carefully resisted for a very long time, buying historical novels by such 'pop' historians as Phillippa Gregory and Alison Weir - I wouldn't touch Weir with a barge pole! - I finally gave in and bought the Red Queen and The Lady of the Rivers.
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