The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius Of The Golden Age

Rating:
Summary: Easy Read, Most of the Time
Review: This really was a good book. The beginning was very well written, I thought--easy to understand, easy to follow, etc. However, I thought the way the book was divided was a little odd...some chapters made perfect sense, others tended to jump around in time (one minute QE had just been crowned, the next she was almost dead and then it was 25 years prior to her death).

I thought that Mr. Hibbert did a great job of laying out the facts without being overzealous in giving the reader his own opinion. It was easy to draw certain opinions of QE's behaviour, but whether that was because the book was so well written or because there has lately been an influx of movies, etc about QE, I couldn't say.

I really came to know QE during the reading of this book. Although she was portrayed to her subjects as a goddess (Gloriana, whatever), she really was a paranoid, hysterical, inconsisten human being. Mr. Hibbert did a GREAT job in bringing out the "humanness" of QE.