Sovereign (The Shardlake series, 3)

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Sovereign (The Shardlake series, 3)

Sovereign (The Shardlake series, 3)

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I have to confess to being a dedicated Henry hater. It dismays me that recent history has lionised him as some sort of humanist Renaissance Man, and/or as a stud in the bedroom. Personally, I loathe not just him but the entire Tudor dynasty because they had so much blood on their hands. In my eyes, Henry is a cold-blooded killer, although he may never have wielded the murder weapon himself. There is an old saying "Absolute power corrupts absolutely", and that definitely applies to Henry VIII, Mary and Elizabeth I. All in the name of religion, but really to fulfil their own greedy ambitions and craving for supremacy.

This was almost a 5 star read for me. The two cases were tense and had the highest of stakes. The only thing that let it down slightly was all the waiting around the characters did. A lot of time passes in this book where the characters are just sitting around and waiting for things to happen. It was boring! William Rees-Mogg was born in 1928. His father was a Somerset landowner, and his mother an American actor. From a young age William, like Jacob, combined fogeyishness – he loved double-breasted suits and old books – with a modern expertise at self-promotion. A high-profile undergraduate at Oxford, he told an interviewer from the student magazine Isis that he read the Financial Times every morning. He was hired by the paper shortly afterwards.

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Es en este grandioso marco histórico, ambientado de forma espléndida por el autor, donde transcurre la nueva aventura de nuestro abogado Shardlake, en York, punto final de la "Jornada" real. Entre traiciones, intrigas, conspiraciones, enredos legales, humillaciones, llegará hasta el final de su misión gracias a su inteligencia y, casi, a costa de su propio pellejo, siempre con la inestimable ayuda de su secretario Barak (gran secundario). A new character was introduced that I assume will become a regular in the series. I’m not sure I like her. This is not the only attempt on Shardlake's life during the course of the novel, and there are deaths, conspiracies and secrets aplenty for him to contend with, as the Progress stalls in York for many days. Several unpleasant characters emerge as the story unfolds, including the harsh gaoler, Radwinter, the scheming power-broker Sir William Maleverer, the fierce-tempered servant Jennet Marlin and the bitchy Lady-in-Waiting, Jane Rochford. They vex Shardlake and Barak, throwing all sorts of obstacles, both literal and figurative, in the path of their investigations. Obvia decir que ninguna de las dos tareas serán sencillas para Shardlake, de hecho su vida correrá peligro en más de una ocasión y llegará a ganarse la enemistad de gente poderosa que le harán la vida imposible debido a su rectitud.

to 4.5 stars. Okay, okay, that was a bit much and the Holmes stories are actually quite good. However, I find the Matthew Shardlake series and the writing of C.J. Sansom to be substantially better. These are true blue historical mysteries that pull you completely into the time of the story (in this case 1541).Rees-Mogg supported his arguments with a teetering pile of references from, among other fields, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis and nuclear physics. The overall effect was uneven: the fluent, entitled assertiveness of a Times leading article awkwardly mixed up with a more personal tone, digressive, a little amateurish. Unlike his loquacious father, Jacob has the politician’s ability to say as little as possible when necessary The libertarian right always saw Brexit as part of their journey to a low-tax, low-regulation and low-transparency UK. They had to win a referendum and an election on one basis then to deliver their eventual goals on another: a global network of Enterprise Cities competing on the basis of freedom from restraint. A. Sadly I think all religions go through periods of expansionist, fundamentalist brutality and this age is one when currents of dangerous fundamentalism seem to be expanding in all religions—Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, and not least Christianity. In Tudor times the conflict was between religious factions. Today it is between those who believe in an absolutist interpretation of the scriptures of the various religions and those who do not.



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