redwrapped's review
challenging
funny
informative
fast-paced
3.0
Ed West's humor and punchlines given to actual events is ~impeccable~, but I spotted a few small errors of either title or timeline or relationships between the people that tweaked my overall enjoyment, and West did succumb to the low fruit of accusing Richard III of murdering the Princes in the Tower repeatedly, without ever explaining the possible reasons why or exploring theories that the other bloodthirsty, exploitative figures of the time may have done it. The frequent foreshadowing in the first half of the book of Richard's murderous tendencies and nephew-murdering was a bit of a loop; no one else got that royal treatment, although everybody in the nobility at the time was the killer of various extended family members.
I understand West's book was written for conciseness and to condense the HUGE amount of history within a 30-year span of time, so he couldn't veer off into too much detail, and for all the figures involved, West did present their characters for better and worse and was not too biased to any particular person.
I understand West's book was written for conciseness and to condense the HUGE amount of history within a 30-year span of time, so he couldn't veer off into too much detail, and for all the figures involved, West did present their characters for better and worse and was not too biased to any particular person.
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