I am not normally one for historical fiction, but the author is a friend who has been working on this story for a long time, and I am proud of her that she made it to publication. As you can tell by the full subtitle of “Book One: Born with Wings”, Judith’s Journey is only the start of what may end up being the full life of a proto-English Queen who packs a lot of experiences in what stops here with her late teen years.
If there are anachronisms in the book I am not learned enough to have picked them out; I just went along with the story. I will say that the amount of sex in the book surprised me, but it is logically placed if you’re telling the story of a woman ‘coming of age’. In its own way it’s probably just as informative to a teen as Judy Blume’s Forever.
My main complaint with the Kindle edition I read is that there were too many typos/errant punctuation. I hope those can be fixed in a future edition.
I am looking forward to Book Two in this tale and hope it doesn’t take too long to be published.