Tannat

This read like the kind of historical fiction that I don’t really like: a description of a series of events in a historically important person’s life that never really seem to gel into a story. I spent a lot of my time a little lost because I could never tell how much time would pass in between chapters, and a lot of important events were mentioned after the fact without it feeling like they’d made any impact on Richard because there was no hint of it until it was brought up. Basically, the novel didn’t really work for me although there was nothing really wrong with it other than the impressions that I mentioned above. I had been looking forward to reading more about Richard II, but I don’t feel like I gained any insight into his time period.

I read this for the More Historical Than Fiction book club, but it had been on my to-read list for years.