Lord Protector Clayton Spann

[Misfit]

A $.99 kindle book. I've read a bit and not sure how far I'll get. A bit of an alternate history with the MC going back in time to solve the mystery of what happened to the princes in the tower.

[Barbara]

I'm doing the same and feel the same way. Interesting parts of finally seeing old London but the writing is really weak and starting to get annoying. We'll see.

[Misfit]

I'm about 1/3 of the way in. This time travel twist is rather bizarre.

(view spoiler)[Apparently there's a time portal in wales that Margaret Beaufort discovered when she was married to Owen Tudor. She's been using it to travel to the future, and that's how she learned things that would happen, including that son Henry would be king. (hide spoiler)]

Bah. I am saving up a ton of the *cough* best quotes on the kindle. I do like that Amazon kindle page they set up where I can have them sitting there to copy and paste. Just go to kindle.amazon.com and sign in with your Amazon account and get going :)

[Susan]

The author has Margaret married to Owen Tudor? Not a good sign if so. Her husband was Edmund Tudor, Owen's older son.

[Misfit]

I think the marriage may have been my assumption, I'll have to go back and look. It was said several times that she lived in Wales with Owen Tudor and I jumped to the marriage conclusion.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

That is truly a bizarre twist. Does Doctor Who show up?

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"Margaret left the chamber. She had a web to spin."

That was a laugh-out-loud moment.....not sure if in a good way or a bad way, but still, laugh-out-loud.

[Misfit]

Wait until the action returns to the present day and just wait until you see who goes there and who was hidden there. Lol.

(view spoiler)[They were the Gang of Four, mused Ward, as he neared the middle of his three hour watch. What an assemblage. A modern history professor, a medieval royal counselor, and two thugs that would be given wide berth in any age.

Very soon, perhaps before tomorrow was out, they would see the miracles he described. Planes, trains, automobiles. Telephones, television, computers. Vast gleaming cities where commoners lived like earls and the rich like gods. They were going to have a serious case of future shock.

Ward was only moderately surprised to see she wore a backpack and modern hiking clothes. She also sported a black knit cap that covered her hair and ears.

When the sun hit the motorway again they were closer and he could confirm the vehicle was a SUV. But was it a Trooper, and did Lady Margaret sit behind the wheel?

He sourly noted that the dress she wore ran from throat to ankles, though it was the height of summer. Up the street she climbed into a blue sports utility vehicle. A big plume of exhaust jetted as she drove away

Add the occasional bared midriff and plunging neckline plus the tautness of remaining clothes, the situation had to make for a major elevation of medieval blood pressure.

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I left off last night with a meal of burgers and chips (fries). The medieval boys are freaking over the ketchup (they think it's blod) and they're now wolfing down burgers called "Whoopers".

:D

[Sharon]

First, thanks for providing the information about this group. :-) I'm a long-time Ricardian. I'm also an author, but not about this time period -- so you don't have to worry about me blowing my horn, LOL.

Anyway, yes. I picked this book up during the May eBook Week promotion on Smashwords, thinking "What the heck. I'm always up for alternative theories about the princes."

Oh. Help. This book jumped the shark so quickly ... and yet I felt strongly compelled to finish it. (Morbid curiosity, I suppose.) There was just so very much wrong with it.

I think the Whoopers thing was to avoid trademark infringement ... I was far more upset about "Acquataine". Egad.

[Misfit]

Lol, I missed that one but I confess to skimming a lot. I am really strugging how to review it. There were some twists that were so damned hilarious (unintentionally) that I give him an extra point for that.

The R3 group doesn't always hop (I'm not a good mod), but the resources you get from some of the authors who have studied the period is a big plus. Brian, Susan, Joan and even the lovely Ms. Penman pops in on occasion.

[Sharon]

Ms. Penman is indeed a delight. :-)

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Some books are so bad they're almost good. Just like movies!

[Misfit]

Susanna wrote: "Some books are so bad they're almost good. Just like movies!"

:D

(view spoiler)[While Owen lived she had traveled to the future at least once a year. She enjoyed each visit to the hilt, and was tempted to stay. She of course could not, she had a son to raise who the history books said would become king of England at the age of fourteen in 1471.

On her next visit to the future Margaret found that the twentieth century was no more. At least the one she had so embraced. In its place she encountered a nightmare civilization, ruled by the Antichrist. Satan had donned the guise of God and whoever entered this world truly must abandon hope



She took the two boys—blindfolded, hands tied behind their backs, and feet tied to stirrups—into the future. Blessedly the world she found was the same one as when she first journeyed to the future. She dropped to her knees and gave thanksgiving to the Lord.

He sourly noted that the dress she wore ran from throat to ankles, though it was the height of summer. Up the street she climbed into a blue sports utility vehicle. A big plume of exhaust jetted as she drove away.

The Countess of Richmond and Derby waited patiently for the crowd of tourists to move forward. August was not the best month to visit Westminster Abbey, but she always made a pilgrimage when she came to the London of this era. How could she stay away? Those she loved lay here. (hide spoiler)]

I suppose that's enough for now. I really must tell you all how it ends :D

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Misfit]

(view spoiler)[So they're all in the present day, including Margaret Beaufort who hid the boys there. Somehow they decide to take them back and restore the Plantagetnet line and take Henry VII off the throne, which changes history. We get a look at life in England under said historical changes. Ack. (hide spoiler)]