Book Review
Aug. 24th, 2008 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariCrown in Candlelight
by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
This historical novel is about Owen Tudor, Henry V, and Katherine Valois. It's finely written and the characters are well-drawn. Owen Tudor in particular comes across as quite interesting and likeable. I really liked the portrayal of Katherine and Henry's marriage as an arrangement of political necessity that surprisingly produced a sincerely loving and affectionate relationship that was tragically cut short. (And it doesn't matter in the least how any author describes Henry, he will always look just like Kenneth Branagh in my head) Unfortunately, the portrayal of the post-Henry love affair between Katherine and Owen utterly failed to be appealing. Jarman gives their relationship an element of obsessiveness and overwrought passion that I just wasn't quite comfortable with.
by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
This historical novel is about Owen Tudor, Henry V, and Katherine Valois. It's finely written and the characters are well-drawn. Owen Tudor in particular comes across as quite interesting and likeable. I really liked the portrayal of Katherine and Henry's marriage as an arrangement of political necessity that surprisingly produced a sincerely loving and affectionate relationship that was tragically cut short. (And it doesn't matter in the least how any author describes Henry, he will always look just like Kenneth Branagh in my head) Unfortunately, the portrayal of the post-Henry love affair between Katherine and Owen utterly failed to be appealing. Jarman gives their relationship an element of obsessiveness and overwrought passion that I just wasn't quite comfortable with.
