The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the Princes in the Tower whose fate remains unknown to this day.....

This is the first in The Cousins War series & I picked up the second "The Red Queen" at the same time. Well at 10p each I couldn't not do......

Well, it's now 20th October & I'm finally getting around to reviewing this book so needless to say it's not as fresh in my mind as it was! My excuse being that I read it on the way back from Florida & on arriving home it got sided away with some other stuff by mistake! But I digress....

My problem with this book, well not just this book but any historical novel, is I tend to believe everything I'm reading.....don't/can't distinguish between fact & fiction! Also ours is a very pro Richard household so before I began reading I wasn't going to be happy if he was portrayed as an evil King (Shakespeare, you have a lot to answer for)

However Gregory does take pains to identify her "imaginary" sections & if she contravenes known facts, well I couldn't honestly say what they were. It's reasonable to assume that people believed witchcraft was involved as it was a sign of the times that they were living in. The swopping of sides certainly kept me on my toes - how on earth people decided who they could trust or not I have no idea!

So all-in-all a good read. I've got "The Red Queen" already on my TBR mountain but at this point I'm not sure if I'll read it or not.

Released as part of the 2014 TV Series Challenge (#51)

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