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Title: A Book To Miss
Review: As a Scotophile and history buff, I was looking forward to reading this new series-- and while the little character pictures are interesting, the first book itself was harder and harder slogging as the chapters piled up. The characters? Odd, and sometimes cartoonish; the dialogue? peculiar. I half-expected Edward I to twirl his mustachios and utter "Muwahaha!" before long.. so I stopped reading. It takes a great deal to make me lay aside a book, especially on one of my heroes-- but this one did it. It reads like a bad movie script, not a book on one of the crucial periods of Scottish history.Read the real thing:The Bruce Trilogy: A Superb Trilogy About Scotland's Greatest Hero (Coronet Books)'s Bruce trilogy, plus his bookThe Wallace: The Compelling 13th Century Story of William Wallace (Coronet Books).
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