The Lady Elizabeth

[isabelladangelo]

I started reading the book The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir yesterday. It started off perfectly. Then, by page 100, I started noticing a couple of odd things but didn't think much of it. I figured it was just for dramatic effect and nothing more. Then we get to Thomas Seymour, known as the Admiral in the book. And, yeap, lost me. Totally. It became nothing more than yet another bodice ripper who uses historical people and smears their names.

I'm going to try and trudge through the rest of it but honestly, for anyone else out there that actually cares about the historical facts, don't bother with this book once you get to the Admiral. The first part of the book is fine but the second part? It's just not worth the "but that's not what happened!" stress.

Comments

[beatrixherald.livejournal.com]

I love me a good Bodice Ripper. I assume ALL books are going to mess up the history. Is there steamy romance scenes?

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Not really. It's more of the description of a 40 something year old man pretty much raping a 14~15 year old girl. It's really a very sick and twisted view and sick and twisted, when they don't jive well with history, are nothing more than the sick and twisted fantasies of the authoress.

I believe that history is interesting enough with it's own intrigues and scandals, we don't need some pyschotic author/ess to "improve" upon what took place.