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Title: Raven Queen

Author: Pauline Francis

Narrator: Leanne Westbury

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-11

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The life of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Day Queen, is all too often remembered as just a line in a history book. This novel reveals the full and tragic story a tale of treachery, power struggles, and religious turmoil in the Tudor court. It is also a sensitive story of love against all odds.

Critic Reviews:

"Told in a timeless voice, it is rich in characters and shot through with deeper themes of love, faith, loyalty and betrayal." (Carousel)

"...teenage girls in particular will be drawn to this moving story." (Education Guardian)

Members Reviews:

Never Read This Book

I am 13 years old and I read this book as part of a unit on the Reformation. I didn't like it. I liked the history but not the way she described the history. She added a little too much romance. She used her imagination too much in trying to recreate the story, though I liked the way she went between Lady Jane Grey, who was of the new faith (Protestant), and Ned, who is with Mary Tudor and is of the old faith (Catholic). Ned is her love interest and in the end he chops off her head. He asks for this task, just to be able to see her again. The ending of the book is kind of freaky. It says her body stayed there all day. No ravens came to peck at her eyes or the flesh hanging from her neck. And he was surprised at how much blood could come from such a small body. I would never recommend this book to anyone.

The first Jane Gray tale that I have read in which I ended up not liking either the character or the book.

I have loved the subject of Jane Gray for as long as I can remember. I read everything about her that I can get my hands on. This is not the first book that I have read portraying her in a somewhat negative light, but it is the first that I have read in which I ended up not liking either the character or the book.

In "Raven Queen," Jane seemed to be a mean-hearted and unaccepting person. I understand that her belief in her faith was unbreakable. But this book made her out to be a person who was unaccepting of anyone not of the New Faith, even those she claimed to love. She was mean spirited to her sisters, degrading in her thoughts about her royal cousins. Of course she also had repellant thoughts regarding her parents and the Dudley family, but those can be excused if you know anything about either family.

I donât know if it was all the negativity that made me dislike this book, or if it was that I just donât like the idea of my idolized Jane being anything other than what I have come to see her as. The forced teenage queen made a martyr by her power-hungry family.

interesting look at a historical character

This is the fictional story of Lady Jane Grey as a young woman, before she became Queen of England. She saves the life of a boy who was about to be hanged and gets him a job on her family estate. They slowly and secretly become friends and fall in love.

This is an interesting look at a historical character I wasn't familiar with. I found it a bit hard to connect with both Jane and Ned. Everything seemed a bit too formal to truly get to know them. I really don't get how they developed a friendship and fell in love. That part is rather obscured and quick. Their relationship was easier to believe once they were separated and loved only from afar.

Jane's quirks were interesting. I don't know if they were real or not, but they did lend a bit of depth to her character.