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Enjoyable version of history!

Reviewed: 01-31-25

I didn’t think that I would make it through the first chapter of this book because I’ve long loved the novel, The First Princess of Whales, which provides a different version of the story, opposite relationship dynamics, and a different motivation for the character’s behaviors. Because I love Elizabeth Chadwick’s works, I continued to listen and became completely engulfed. Well done!!!

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New narration needed

Reviewed: 12-08-24

I’ve always wanted a good book to provide an account of this King Edward and Queen Isabella. The content is great but the narrator is not a good fit. I could barely listen.

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Very Entertaining!

Reviewed: 09-25-24

I don’t typically enjoy mysteries, but I love the narration of Bianca Amato. She could recite the alphabet and I’d wish for more letters after Z. It is she who kept my attention long enough to appreciate the authors talent. I plan to listen to more of her work. Well done ladies!

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It still hurts and angers me!

Reviewed: 08-13-24

I was born and raised in West Philly and lived a few blocks from the Africa Family. In 1978 I was 13 years old and had family who lived down the bottom on the same block as the Africa family. My understanding as a child was that Move were naturalist, were vegetarians, and didn’t participate in politics. That wasn’t strange to me. My dad and one of my moms were vegan and one of my moms came from a family whose religious community didn’t participate in politics. I just found Move’s Locs fascinating and wondered why the women always walked in the street when they came through our block. Never on the pavement. They were always polite and ready to share their beliefs. The incident in 1978 was horrible but at age 13 I didn’t really understand what happened.

Fast forward to 1985, I’m away in college. All the way in Austin, Texas, and I turn on the news in the morning and my neighborhood back home is on every station! It was breaking news coverage. I was frozen. My body and brain felt ice cold and I remember going into the bathroom and vomiting. When I called home my Nana said, it’s really bad Re. Call back when your aunt gets home from work and she’ll be able to explain it better. With the 1 hour time difference and breaking news, I witnessed the horror show before I could get my aunt on the phone. They murdered those innocent people. Murdered those beautiful innocent children. I watched the burning homes of people that I grew up with, went to school with, and played tennis with in Cobbs Creek Park, and I was devastated, embarrassed by and ashamed of my city of “brotherly love”. I cried for weeks, missed classes, and was required to see the school counselor. When I came home to visit a few months later I walked around the corner and didn’t recognize the block. My heart ached. Years later I never watched not one documentary on the tragedy because I didn’t think that I could deal with it.Now, age 59, I made myself listen to this podcast. My heart still aches and I’m still angry. There’s no recompense for that horrible act. No amount of monetary award or the rebuilding of homes on that block can undo what happened to that family and our neighbor’s homes, the homes of my childhood friend’s parents and grandparents. I could say more but didn’t mean to write this much.

Thank you to the author and all contributors. Especially for the understanding of events that led up to the 1978 tragedy. Well done!

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Oh my goodness!!!!

Reviewed: 07-11-24

This book was like a bad dream. I could only listened as far a Brienne before I wanted to drag my fingernails across my face. The narrator sounded like a very drunk pirate. Ugh! I’m disappointed but glad that I only wasted a credit. Ugh!

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Laborious

Reviewed: 05-25-24

I found this book, in part m, very laborious. However, that is one of the reasons that I enjoyed it. Because I’ve read or listened to almost every available piece on the missing princess, I’ve recognized how the laborious writings have won much of what can be interrupted as the truth. My associates have always asked me, “But who’s truth”. I usually smile and tell them, the truth that I’ve believed since I was a teenager. King Richard loved his brother King Edward. He would have never killed his brother’s sons. The Princes were rescued and kept safely in exile for the remainder of their lives because their mother would never have lived the remaining years of her life in the manner reported if she believed they were deceased. She and the Princesses would never have left sanctuary and Queen Elizabeth would have never allowed her daughters to return to court under Richard’s Kingship. Without proof of death or life, Henry and Margaret did not live in peace. Good!

I appreciated the family connections disclosed by the author. She must have had a ball with her research, discoveries, and writings. Good!

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Not Just Another Cinderella Story

Reviewed: 05-12-24

While I appreciate the idea of the story being told from the stepmother’s point of view, the content didn’t feel substantial enough to carry it off. The narrater was very good and her talent is one of the things that held my interest. The other thing was my waiting and hoping for the story to give me something more. All in all, the idea was very good.

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Ugh!

Reviewed: 04-24-24

When a man tells you who he is, believe him. The narration was very good. The story was probably one of the worse, of that era, that I’ve ever experienced.

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Finally!!!!

Reviewed: 04-17-24

Thank you! I have waited years for a good historical fiction story to be written of the Mortimer family. The bits and pieces that are weaved into other novels always left me wanting and wondering where they came from and what made the first Earl of the March believe he had any rights. How did he hook up with the Queen Isabella, did he leave any abandoned family and what did his wife do, think, feel? I started reading this genre when I was 14 years old. I’ve owned hard copies and have replaced all of the good ones with Audible recordings. I’m 58yrs old. Always searching for the next really good novel. This one was fantastic! Thank you!

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How do I return this book?

Reviewed: 02-27-24

I really need to return this book. The story line seems interesting but I can not deal with the narrator’s choppy reading and toneless voice. I just can not!

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