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Innocent Traitor | 
 enlarge | Author: Alison Weir
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 951
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0099493799
EAN: 9780099493792
ASIN: 0099493799
Publication Date: June 7, 2007
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 A GOOD READ December 4, 2008
I bought this book having read the six wives of henry the eigth and I thought it was a good read. I did not have alot of knowledge about Lady Jane Grey and this was a good introduction.
 Fantabulosa! November 30, 2008
Oh Wow, what a book! Alison Weir is such a great writer. I just couldn't put this down and even though i knew how it was going to end, i prayed it would be different. Superb and a must read book.
 Disappointing and trivial October 15, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Deeply disappointing read to anyone genuinely interested in history and definately not one of Alison Weir's more successful works. here ius no depth to the book and the characters are shallow; there is some basis in historical fact but much of the book is conjecture. The style is stilted and uses the device of several different people taking up the tale to carry the story along. This patently does not work in this book as none of the characters develop a believable or sufficiently diiferentiated voice. The modernisation of the language and sentiment makes the book anachronistic and is rather patronising to the reader. It was so vacuous and trite that I nearly gave up on the book in boredom but the second half does gain some pace as it moves to it's inescapable conclusion and there are some little insights into Queen Mary's character that could bear further development.
Is this book trying to be reportage or a boddice ripper ? Whatever the genre it really does not work. Perhaps I should not have read it after Ives' excellent piece of scholarship on Anne Boleyn which really is well researched, highly entertaining and rewarding.
Sadly disappointed September 30, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
History is my favorite subject and this author came highly recommended.
This is the first book I have read by her and was extremely disappointed.
It lacked a true atmosphere of the time,that this was set in.
I really could not picture any exacutioner, living during Mary's reign, thinking the thoughts that this author had written.
The terminology was all wrong, the dialogue sounded 1970's.
The characters all appeared wishy washy.
It is far more a type of Barbara Cartland for the history lover, than any serious attempt to understand or explain how these events really played out.
It is an easy light read, ideal for train travel or just before going to sleep.
The Tudor/War of the Roses have been far better written as stories by Rosemay Hawley Jarman, amoungest others, who REALLY make you smell the candle wax and hear the rustle of cloth of gold.
This book is not, in my opinion, true history at all. Just another story book.
Suspenseful even with a well-known ending August 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Alison Weir is a respected historian who is often recommended as an antidote to inaccurate representations in historical fiction as written by other authors. This is her first novel, and what a novel it is. I was entranced from the first line, and even though I knew how it was going to end, I still hoped that there would be a change at some point near the end. That's the sign of a good writer - someone who can write so compellingly and with such suspense that you hope they can even change historical facts for you.
Lady Jane Grey was a pawn in the ambition of her parents and of the Duke of Northumberland, almost from the moment she was born. Never forgiven for the cardinal sin of being born female, she was beaten and tortured into becoming a "lady" suitable for marriage to a monarch. When that ceased to be an option she was beaten into a marriage and a reign she never wanted, protesting even as the crown was being put on her head. These are facts that are known by most who have even read cursory information about this young lady. What is amazing is the way Alison Weir makes it seem like new information. The chorus of different voices in the telling of Jane's tale is exemplary and clever. I kept turning pages wanting to see what spin the next narrator would put on the story.
This novel did what historical fiction should do - it made me want to seek out the non-fiction bases for the story and do more reading. Anything that inspires further study can only be praised.
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