After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England by Leanda de LisleMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Unfortunately I was disappointed a bit as I've wanted to read this for ages. I felt like it would have given more insight into James and his relationship with his mother (not just literally their relationship but also more clues on his personal views and potentially even guilt regarding his mother which in my opinion changed drastically after the succession) . Mary didn't even make the picture sections at all which was a bit upsetting for me (not the actual lack of picture but evasion of her entirely) as I feel like this book missed a huge part of the story of the succession. I struggled a lot through the last half and honestly I am giving it four stars even though I have written a poor review not because it's a bad book but the material does not actually do anything but literally discuss a few half assed plots and then a bunch of boring coronation detail which is nice but this was literally one of the biggest topicd in the book as well as forgettable information about his knighting random nobodies. I went into it thinking that maybe there was some interesting struggle worth an entire book but finished quite disappointed. The information is all quality and there is a great amount of information well sourced about various aspects of the immediate period after Elizabeth's death. Unfortunately there isn't really much of an interesting story and I didn't learn anything particularly ground breaking or new. I actually liked the first half of the book the second half was only finished because all my other books are in storage while I moved houses and I physically couldn't read something more interesting unless I went to buy it lol
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