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A review by herbalmoon
Bloodline by Conn Iggulden
Did not finish book.
1.0
I only seem to have complaints about this series, so let's get on with it...
- Conn doesn't seem to realize that laird basically means "landlord" and trots it out like a noble title at every turn. If this (fictional) Andrew Douglas has a title, that should be used, not "laird".
- Several times in this book and a few in the last, Conn says that Queen Margaret has been making eyes at the Duke of Somerset.
WRONG SOMERSET!
Margaret was reputed to a have thing for Edmund Beaufort, his father.
In fact, Conn mentioned once or twice about Margaret having eyes for Edmund and then he magically changes it to Henry.
No?
- My fear that he'd introduce Elizabeth Woodville as an ice queen who actually practiced Witchcraft was unfounded.
He brought her in as a dirty country bumpkin instead.
WHAT?!
Her father had been promoted to Baron by Henry VI, her mother was the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, and she married the eldest son of another baron. How on Goddess's green earth does that make her a bumpkin?!
OH! And then he has the gall to return the dog he stole just so he can make-out with her in the front yard of THE HOME SHE SHARES WITH HER HUSBAND!
WTF?! Do you not think the servants would tattle that she'd been cheating? Or do you hope that they will, so Sir John would divorce her and you can put the two of them together?
Too bad THERE'S NO HISTORICAL EVIDENCE saying Elizabeth and Edward knew each other before they met that day on the road when she was a widow!
And then he glosses over the whole meeting on the road/wedding bit. Sheesh.
More to come as I find it.
- Conn doesn't seem to realize that laird basically means "landlord" and trots it out like a noble title at every turn. If this (fictional) Andrew Douglas has a title, that should be used, not "laird".
Spoiler
- Several times in this book and a few in the last, Conn says that Queen Margaret has been making eyes at the Duke of Somerset.
WRONG SOMERSET!
Margaret was reputed to a have thing for Edmund Beaufort, his father.
In fact, Conn mentioned once or twice about Margaret having eyes for Edmund and then he magically changes it to Henry.
No?
- My fear that he'd introduce Elizabeth Woodville as an ice queen who actually practiced Witchcraft was unfounded.
He brought her in as a dirty country bumpkin instead.
WHAT?!
Her father had been promoted to Baron by Henry VI, her mother was the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, and she married the eldest son of another baron. How on Goddess's green earth does that make her a bumpkin?!
OH! And then he has the gall to return the dog he stole just so he can make-out with her in the front yard of THE HOME SHE SHARES WITH HER HUSBAND!
WTF?! Do you not think the servants would tattle that she'd been cheating? Or do you hope that they will, so Sir John would divorce her and you can put the two of them together?
Too bad THERE'S NO HISTORICAL EVIDENCE saying Elizabeth and Edward knew each other before they met that day on the road when she was a widow!
And then he glosses over the whole meeting on the road/wedding bit. Sheesh.
More to come as I find it.