Book Review – Dark History of the Tudors

Dark History of the Tudors: Murder, Adultery, Incest, Witchcraft, Wars, Religious Persection, Piracy by Judith John
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This almost works as a light summer read about the Tudor dynasty. If you’ve seen The Tudors or maybe two or three movies on the topic, you won’t find a ton of new information here. But the prose is far from scholarly and the story keeps moving fairly well. Copious sidebars and illustrations help keep things from getting dull. My only big gripe is that this reads like a long Wikipedia entry, complete with choppy shifts back and forth in the timeline and oddly shifting points of view about who’s genuinely horrible and who’s simply misunderstood.

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