The Sunne in Splendour

The Sunne in Splendour

1982 • 936 pages

Ratings11

Average rating4.3

15

I think this book could have used some more input from an editor, there were definitely some scenes that could have been cleaned up, for example towards the end of the book the need for characters to internally debate a point for 3 or 4 pages, and then have other characters bring up the same point 3 or 4 times got tedious. We know Richard won't marry Bess, why labour the same point with the same argument in 4 different instances within such a short amount of pages? At least the other repetitions - Elizabeth Woodville's cunningness, Edward's getting fat and unhealthy, the Princes in the Tower - were all spread out a bit.

Some of the anachronisms in descriptions annoyed me (one character thinking about something as ‘newfangled', one description of ‘static electricity' etc).

But, minor criticisms. Overall it didn't suck (because I finished it), but I don't think I would read again.

June 28, 2012