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What a terrible movie, don't waste your hard earned cash on it. The production values are non existing. The stars seem to be man eating ostriches and German Shepherds with plastic fangs! Richard Greene seems to wish he was elsewhere, and so did I. The DVD cover bears no relation to anything in the movie and was no doubt designed to make the movies look a little exciting, however, the movie was laughable not at all exciting or scary.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I did not really enjoy this book I found the prose a little stilted and the constant use of magic to obtain the results Elizabeth and her mother wanted rather silly. Apparently the Thames river also had messages for Elizabeth and her family telling them of deaths. The Rivers' family is apparently decended from a river goddess! They would have been accused of witchcraft and probably killed. The reference to Richard, Duke of Gloucester showing his arm and saying it was withered by magic is straight out of Shakespeare, also as Buckingham is routed, the quote "So much for Buckingham" is also from Shakespear's Richard III. Close to the end Richard visits Elizabeth in sanctuary and tells her… Read more
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Sandra Worth's Lady of the Roses is a fascinating recreation of the lives of John Neville, Lord Montague, brother of the famed Warwick the Kingmaker, and Lady Isobel Ingoldsthorpe. There is little known about Isobel but this story as seen through Isobel's eyes speaks of her great love for John Neville. Isobel was a ward of the Lancastrian queen Marguerite, wife of the ill fated Henry V1 and had to fight for permission to marry John Neville who was an avowed Yorkist. Their lives are intertwined with the fortunes of the Yorkist adherents including Edward IV and the future Richard III who Ms. Worth has written so eloquently about in the Rose of York trilogy. Living through the deaths of… Read more
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