Lady Jane Grey is not one of my favorite subjects to begin with, but add to that a heaping helping of abusive parents and this book was painful to read. I felt like it went on too long but the entries kept jumping ahead in time and it also felt like it wasn't telling the whole story. Not the best book I've read about her.
Bloody Tower covers a similar time period. Tilly is the daughter of the Tower's doctor, so she's right there for a lot of the action, but as a commoner, she's a better character. The book covers the death of Edward, the turmoil with Lady Jane Grey, Mary's bloody rule, and finally ends with Elizabeth in power at last.
My only real complaint about it is that once again, we've got abusive parents. Not her father so much, but her mother "boxes her ears" on multiple occasions.
To Kill a Queen continues the story with Tilly's daughter as the diary author.
Tilly has married a nobleman who's in mysterious service to Queen Elizabeth. Kitty (Catherine) is the oldest daughter of the family, but she has older and younger siblings.
The family is right in the middle of the plot to kill Elizabeth, only Tilly's just slowly piecing everything together. One of her elder brothers made friends with Anthony Babington, who was one of the masterminds behind a plot to kill Elizabeth and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.
It's an exciting story and pretty fast-paced, although I was saddened to see that Tilly didn't learn a thing from her mother and has boxed her daughter's ears at some point.
What is it with abusive parents? Can't these authors write something decent?
It's a ship book. Nothing new here really. Asshole crew member that Thomas has a problem with. Ship terminology. Battles. The same old same old.
But seriously, three different authors and four different books, and every one has at least one abusive parent incident. Blech!
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