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A review by claire_michelle18
The Queen's Poisoner by Jeff Wheeler
2.0
This book annoyed me from the very start - there's only one woman on the list of characters yet the first chapter opens from the POV of a woman not listed as a character at all! The setting is a mishmash of the Wars of the Roses with various bits of semi-celtic mysticism thrown in but not a lot of time is spent on any deep world building.
The story itself is interesting enough - it's told from the perspective of Owen, an 8 year old son of a suspected traitor who being held as hostage by King Severn (a thinly veiled King Richard III). He meets a mysterious woman who seems to be helping him escape the king although it doesn't actually work out like that as Severn turns out to be not that bad. I wonder if the author is a member of the Richard III Society?!
Overall an ok book but nothing out of the ordinary and I probably won't bother with the rest of the series.
The story itself is interesting enough - it's told from the perspective of Owen, an 8 year old son of a suspected traitor who being held as hostage by King Severn (a thinly veiled King Richard III). He meets a mysterious woman who seems to be helping him escape the king although it doesn't actually work out like that as Severn turns out to be not that bad. I wonder if the author is a member of the Richard III Society?!
Overall an ok book but nothing out of the ordinary and I probably won't bother with the rest of the series.