eserafina42's review
2.0
This was an entertaining, if somewhat breakneck, summary of English history from its beginnings until the end of the Tudor dynasty, but I did not feel as if it lived up to its advertising. Only occasionally, at the beginning and near the end, was any connection made to the events of Game of Thrones - not even the obvious one between Edward IV and Robert Baratheon. It seems as if that reference was thrown into the title largely to sell copies. (It didn't work for me since I read it through Amazon's Kindle Unlimited.) What a shame - the style was engaging (I had never thought of Becket's bloody slaughter as an "exit interview"), and it could have been so much more.
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