30/50Books: A Famine of Horses
Nov. 2nd, 2008 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerWhile trying to increase my percentage of nonfiction, I snuck this historical novel in, because it was too tempting not to.
'A Famine of Horses' is the first in series based on the real-life exploits of Sir Robert Carey, who served as an officer of the English Crown on the Anglo-Scottish border from 1593 to 1603. The author, who has written other historical novels based in the reign of Elizabeth I, seems to have done her research. Without knowing the period as a social historian would, the characters ring true to me and the background information seems genuine. The story is well told and the writing is engaging. I've ordered the other three books in this series, and I may try her other novels as well. Recommended.
'A Famine of Horses' is the first in series based on the real-life exploits of Sir Robert Carey, who served as an officer of the English Crown on the Anglo-Scottish border from 1593 to 1603. The author, who has written other historical novels based in the reign of Elizabeth I, seems to have done her research. Without knowing the period as a social historian would, the characters ring true to me and the background information seems genuine. The story is well told and the writing is engaging. I've ordered the other three books in this series, and I may try her other novels as well. Recommended.
