Cousins' War: The Red Queen (Series #02) (Hardcover)

from JillKB

I was eager to read this book soon after reading The White Queen, since Lady Margaret Beaufort Tudor Stafford Stanley plays a distant but important role in that novel. Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen plays an even larger role in this novel, since Margaret sees her as a rival. I enjoyed this...

from cathymoore

This is the follow-up to Gregory's The White Queen. Interestingly it covers the same time period and tells almost the exact same story, just from the perspective of the House of Lancaster as opposed to the House of York in the previous novel. It is quite brave of the author to essentially write t...

from Myckyee

The more I read about Tudor England, the more fascinating I discover it to be. I've read historical books about royalty before and enjoyed them - Reay Tannahill's Fatal Majesty (about Mary, Queen of Scots) and The Seventh Son are just two, (I enjoyed the former more than the latter) but this book...

from jmchshannon

Having just finished The White Queen, the first in Ms. Gregory's Plantagenet series, the history behind The Red Queen was very familiar. However, that does not mean that my overall enjoyment of The Red Queen was diminished in any way. Rather, it provided a fascinating contrast and lesson on the i...

from keywestnan

This is interesting for anyone curious about the founding of the Tudor dynasty -- the red queen of the title is Margaret Beaufort, a member of the Lancaster line of England's royal family and mother to Henry Tudor (and thus his claim to the throne). But it didn't really grab me the way some of Gr...