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I was able to pick up a copy of this while free.

The premise is very interesting, set during the life of Elizabeth I. Marlowe is a great character, I very much enjoyed reading about him and his activities. Loved his determination to finish his work.

The writing style is easy to read, but I found the end dragging, probably as I didn't care for the resolution. It shows as 7,722 locations, but when you cut out the preview of the author's next book, it's really 6,835 locations. Elizabeth I, well, she just doesn't come off to well in this one.

Still, it's a good read, and I like the author's notes, but I would need a change to the ending as it took me from 4 stars to 3. Not horrible, by any means, but in the end I wasn't blown away.


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The Marlowe Conspiracy A Novel eBook M G Scarsbrook Reviews

Simply formidable, I highly recommend it. The plot is smart and enthralling, and the fantasy does seem to lay on sound historic research.
The premise was such a good idea that I kept slogging through the book, hoping it would improve. But I had to surrender at 10%. The story is told in the written equivalent of a drone. The characters are two-dimensional. The bottom line is that the author was able to come up with a good idea but wasn't able to write well enough to tell the story.
I like the writing style; very captivating. The author held his readers spellbound. I will definitely recommend it to friends. I like the genre.
A very interesting look at a fascinating character. He was a Playwright, a Poet and a State Spy. A good read.
I got this book when it was free, but in hindsight I would have paid for it. As a bibliophile and a lover of history, the idea of a behind the scenes look at Marlowe's espionage fascinated me, even though I knew most of it would be false (that I was quite pleased with the historic facts at the end of the book to back up the action). It starts off well, and as a former English teacher, I appreciate the inclusion of Marlowe's poetry. The end gets a little heavy handed with the foreshadowing. It feels like it could have ended much sooner, the final resolution takes too long and focuses on characters most would not care about. I read it in a few days of Christmas break, and it was a welcome diversion from spending time with the family.
I have tried to read this novel at least 10 times.

Each time it has failed to capture my attention.

I'm not entirely sure what the issue is. The concept, characters, and setting SHOULD be interesting, but somehow, in this case, they are not. Something drags on the story, and I suspect that it is the pacing. For a conspiracy in which lives are at stake, the story seems plodding, with too much description and not enough movement. I hate not finishing books, but I think I'm giving up on this one.
This was an extremely difficult novel to get all the way through. The only way I could manage it was to start highlighting all the grammatical mistakes (sometimes several per page). At first, I thought, the author, was having, a love-affair, with, the, comma....but later you could go many pages without seeing one even when they would have been helpful.

And nobody ever simply walks anywhere....they stride, they saunter, they tromp and trample and stamp and sidle and proceed and pace....someone take away this man's copy of Roget! Or give him a dictionary to go with it...many of these synonyms were used incorrectly. "They paced through the door" sounds awkward, as does "The three of them paced toward him along the street". Not direct quotes; I removed the book from my reader as soon as I had struggled to the end.

Why, then, did I keep reading? I work in the theatre, and the title led me to expect more from the plot than was there. I kept expecting it to go somewhere, but it never did. There IS a "Marlowe wrote Shakespeare's plays" conspiracy theory, but this book skirts around it to an unsatisfying ending.

Don't waste you time on this one.
I was able to pick up a copy of this while free.

The premise is very interesting, set during the life of Elizabeth I. Marlowe is a great character, I very much enjoyed reading about him and his activities. Loved his determination to finish his work.

The writing style is easy to read, but I found the end dragging, probably as I didn't care for the resolution. It shows as 7,722 locations, but when you cut out the preview of the author's next book, it's really 6,835 locations. Elizabeth I, well, she just doesn't come off to well in this one.

Still, it's a good read, and I like the author's notes, but I would need a change to the ending as it took me from 4 stars to 3. Not horrible, by any means, but in the end I wasn't blown away.