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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Curious, what book is it?
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Boy, by Nicole Galland.
There were good elements about the book which combined real and fictional characters during an actual event, but errors of that magnitude always destroy my suspension of disbelief. I’m not a huge fan of historical fiction, which usually is much too prone to 21st-century sensibilities.
In fairness to my slur about NYT reviews, I’ve read or started ten books published this year including this one and most of them I discovered through reviews. Of the ten, two were very good, two were terrible and abandoned, and the other six were good enough, which is a decent average. At that, one of the very good ones was a nonfiction Tudor history and the desire to stay in that world for a bit led me to read
Boy.