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Title: Disappointing
Review: I really tried to love this novel. I enjoy historical murder mysteries, stories with a female sleuth, and the Elizabethan period. So I gave it many, many chances. And I just couldn't bring myself to like it. The heroine's marriage doesn't seem believable, her attitude towards life and the world rings wrong not only for the period but for a woman of any era, and her relationship with Queen Elizabeth I is contrived at best. The secondary characters seem stiff and uni-dimensional and the story felt like a modern tale with a few anachronistic phrases thrown in and the technology taken out.What I did enjoy, however, were the descriptions of places. In this the author excelled and that is what earned this book that second star from me.
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