bookthia's review against another edition
3.0
I wish I had known, when I purchased this book, that the author had written it over 80 yrs ago. I might have made another choice. Anyhow, the book was fine, although a clearly biased take on the story surrounding Mary Queen of Scots, the death of her husband Henry Darnley, and her relationship with Lord Bothwell. I did enjoy the book, and I did learn things from it. I preferred the last half of the book, when Mary actually acted as Queen, to the front half, about Mary in France and the circumstances around her return to Scotland. I would have liked some footnotes throughout the book to see what quotes were from actual historical documents and which were fictional. The author had an odd way of using quotation marks, which made me think that some things in quotes were actual quotes from actual documentation, while other things in quotes were merely fictional speeches. I never did figure it out completely. As for a pure reading experience, it was good but not great.
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