Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles
A Novel
by Margaret George
Overview
From the Publisher
She was a child crowned a queen....
A sinner hailed as a saint....
A lover denounced as a whore...
A woman murdered for her dreams...
My thoughts
You just can't go wrong with Margaret George. She makes her characters come to life in a can't-put-the-book-down sort of way!
The story of Mary Queen of Scots is not always a pleasant one! But it's an exciting one! There are twists and turns that are simply unimaginable in this nearly 900-page book! The writing is to fantastic that I have to stop reading sometimes to close my eyes and let the scenery roll before me, to take in all the descriptive text and turn it into a motion picture in my mind! It's just fantastic!
Although there is some questionable subject matter and some uncomfortable behavior, this is perhaps my favorite of the Margaret George books I've read!
Favorite Passage
In France, her tutor had once taught her that to truly fix an image in the mind, to fasten it down completely so that it remained forever captive and vivid, she should carefully name each aspect of the thing to herself, as though she were describing it to a blind person.
"For, ma petite, such is the fickleness of the human mind that it soon lets go of whatever it sees; if you would keep it, you must tack it down with words." She had tried it and found that it worked on flowers, rooms, faces, ceremonies.
