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A Romantic Times TOP PICK! "The historical detail is marvelous. Worth's depiction of the troubled times, uncertainty of life and the portrayal of historical figures as multidimensional people with good intentions, bad decisions, greed, jealousy and goodness of heart will leave you wanting the next book immediately." -- The RT Book Reviews Magazine "November 2003"
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Sandra Worth resides in Houston, Texas, has won numerous writing awards, holds an honours B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto, and was published at 23.Sandra Worth is a frequent contributor to The Ricardian Register of the U.S. Richard III Society, and to the Blanc Sanglier of the Yorkshire, England, branch of that Society.Sandra Worth maintains close ties with England, where she spent half her childhood. Her passion for English history derives from an English mother and a childhood love of fairy tales.Sandra Worth resides in Houston, Texas.
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147 of 155 people found the following review helpful
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Subject: Your Amazon.co.uk Inquiry From: info@amazon.co.uk This novel, set in the fifteenth century during England's turbulent Wars of the Roses, is a pure joy from start to finish- one of the best novels on the life of Richard III I've ever read- a breathtaking and passionate story of Richard's early life and his love for Anne Neville, Warwick the Kingmaker's daughter. It makes the character of Richard III come very much alive in prose that is powerful and vivid, gripping and deeply moving. If you are looking for Shakespeare's villainous, crooked, scheming King Richard, don't look for him here. This story is about Richard as a hero and lover, a man of loyalty, integrity and honour. Once I'd started reading Love and War, I couldn't put it down again until I'd read the very last sentence- it just makes you want to keep turning the pages! I'm very much looking forward to the second novel in Sandra Worth's Richard III series, "Crown of Destiny.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I began to read this book with pure excitement, I'd read the reviews...and I am utterly dumbfounded. Its beyond bad. Ms Worth has blatantly COPIED an extract from Mary Clive's this sun of York, and has basically rewritten P.K Murrays biography as a novel, and as well as that, with a few tweaks, shortened, dumbed down ect isnt this the same novel as the Sunne in splendour? Does Ms Worth not have any original ideas.
What really really did it for me though, is how Richard is almost set up as a saint. What utter rubbish.The cardboard cut out figures of Richard and Clarence were boring. Richard = all good. Clarence = all bad.
In 1476 Richard was chief mourner at the reburial of his Father and brother, an absolutely HUGE affair. I found it odd to say the least that this wasn't even mentioned. I won't even bother starting on the inaccuracies.
What really really did it for me though, is how Richard is almost set up as a saint. What utter rubbish.The cardboard cut out figures of Richard and Clarence were boring. Richard = all good. Clarence = all bad.
In 1476 Richard was chief mourner at the reburial of his Father and brother, an absolutely HUGE affair. I found it odd to say the least that this wasn't even mentioned. I won't even bother starting on the inaccuracies.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Like others, I don't know why this novel has won so many awards. She was better on 'war' than on 'love'. The love bits were simperingly twee. Some of the portrayals of warfare and loyalty dilemmmas were really rather good. I gained my knowledge of Richard from Shakespeare, so another perspective was interesting, but the writing wasn't very good in this one. On, like many have said, to Sharon Penman.
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Unreadable
Appallingly written. The worst sort of romantic tosh. She has no facility for realistic dialogue and no feeling for the period.
Published on 28 Feb 2010 by J. Symon
The early life of Richard III
A very vivid and evocative depiction of the childhood and youth of this much-maligned English king, including his relationship with Anne Neville, the love of his life.
Published on 4 Mar 2009 by Devaki Khanna
Yawn! Yawn!
I don't understand how or why this book has won so many awards. Reading it was a painfully dull process. Many inaccuracies, which always spoil any historical novel for me. Read more
Published on 16 Nov 2008 by Aunt Sally
A vivid and thrilling portayal of the true Richard III
This is one of the most refreshing and realistic novels of that turbulent era that I have ever read. Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2007 by Christina Croft
Love and War Puts "Sunne" in the Shade
Worth's novel is, by far, the finest, most accurate, and most readable of all the historical fiction written about Richard III. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2006 by Florence Graving
could have done better
despite the awards this book attracted, I found it shallow, rather silly (I doubt Richard III used such odd endearments for his wife - they do not fit with the medieval concept of... Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2006 by White Rose
Disappointing
Oh dear. Don't bother with this one, read The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Penman instead.
Published on 3 Aug 2005 by Mr. R. F. W. Freeman
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