![]() ![]() And the family entanglements are made clear, despite so many similar names all the Richards, Cecilys, Edwards and Georges. The secondary characters are as fleshed out as the main ones, something that many authors don’t do. This is a very well written historical novel, full of vivid descriptions and flashes of poetry, such as one soldier’s thoughts before a battle, “They’d all die here in this grey dark, this fog that smothered the field like a shroud.” The characters are sharply drawn, their personalities distinct: the vengeful wrath of Marguerite d’Anjou, the haughtiness of Elizabeth Woodville, the sneaky opportunistic Duke of Clarence, the devotion of Francis Lowell. The title can be a metaphor for many things in this book, but is most obviously taken from the emblem of Edward IV after the natural phenomenon of a parhelion, in which ice crystals in the air gives the optical illusion of 3 suns, occurred during a decisive battle early in his career. ![]() ![]() Richard III Week:The Sunne in Splendor by Sharon Kay Penman ![]()
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