The Tudor Throne

from Chandra-of-Red

**I wish to thank KENSINGTON PUBLISHING for providing me with this book, THE TUDOR THRONE, as a part of the member giveaway on LIBRARYTHING.com** For a HISTORICAL FICTION, absolutely amazing and very well written. Each chapter traverses between the thoughts and lives from Mary to Elizabeth, Eliza...

from celticlady53

The Tudor Throne by Brandy Purdy is another take on the history of England after the death of Henry VIII and his son Edward VI. The story is basically about Queen Mary and Princess Elizabeth, told in alternating chapters. Queen Mary is the daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, whil...

from bgknighton

I enjoyed the book. I do not usually like the format of alternating narrators, but the author carries it off smoothly. The book flows evenly. There is a little stretching of the known facts about Mary and Elizabeth's private lives, but that is almost inevitable in a novel. I ended up wondering ho...

from NCRainstorm

The Tudor Throne is written in the first person narrative, giving both Mary and Elizabeth's points of view. I'm generally not a big fan of changing points of view back and forth in a novel, but I think the author, Brandy Purdy, did a nice job of it. For me, the story got off to a slow start. I th...

from MichelleSutton

Thank you KENSINGTON for providing me with this book, THE TUDOR THRONE, as a part of the member giveaway on this site. I'm a big fan of Tudor era novels...usually. There were some excellent portrayals in this novel, like the characterization of the two sisters' beliefs and how they saw the world ...