Two pieces of advice:
1) Do read novels by Margaret George
2) Do NOT read 3 in a row
George packs so much information into her novels that after awhile it just seems like you're swimming upstream. Or as my grandmother said while reading Cleopatra "I read and I read and I read and I haven't gone anywhere."
By the time I was about 2/3 of the way through this book I was waking up in the middle of the night screaming "Just freaking behead her already!!!" The dogs hid in their crates anytime they saw me get the book out and the cat merely hissed when I invited her to join me in an evening read.
Don't get me wrong, I really did like the book -- I never keep reading book I don't like -- but 3 MGs in a row is 1 or 2 too many. The historical information was interesting enough that I read a book about Mary's son King James. Benja loved this book because the king spent most of his time hunting. Turk was disgusted with the king because spent most of his time hunting instead of running his two countries. Turk is pretty sure that if he was the king then the United Kingdom would truly be united.
A couple of days ago I found a copy of George's Helen of Troy at Kroger for cheap, so of course I picked it up, but I've buried under my pile of books to read. It'll be awhile before we're ready to read this one.
