Pages & Paws

Writing, Reading, and Rural Life With a Border Collie


Leave a comment

‘The Queen’s Men’: Perspicacious or Peanut Butter?

 

The Queen’s Men

An Agents of the Crown Novel

By Oliver Clements (Leopoldo & Co., an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. , 2012)

Genre: historical fiction

Pages: 399

Via: Library

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

There’s plenty of both in this Double-Oh-Seven type drama set in 16th century England and the court of Queen Elizabeth.

Dr. Dee, an alchemist who doubles as “the original MI6 agent” is assigned a dangerous mission to re-create a weapon from antiquity. But if it falls into the wrong hands, it could threaten the crown and bring down the Empire.

Is this historical fiction thingy all it’s cracked up to be?

‘Hark! Methinks I heareth yon dragon in thy far-off forest.’ (You’ll get that if you read the book.)

Kimber Klue: If She Who Must Be Obeyed (sort of) has to invent ways to avoid finishing or resuming a book, that’s a sign. As in, nothing good. So it was with The Queen’s Men. Here’s the 4-1-1:

Continue reading