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.\u00a0 As you can tell by the full subtitle of “Book One: Born with Wings”, Judith’s Journey<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n If there are anachronisms in the book I am not learned enough to have picked them out; I just went along with the story.\u00a0 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’.\u00a0 In its own way it’s probably just as informative to a teen as Judy Blume’s Forever<\/em>.<\/p>\n My main complaint with the Kindle edition I read\u00a0 is that there were too many typos\/errant punctuation.\u00a0 I hope those can be fixed in a future edition.<\/p>\n I am looking forward to Book Two in this tale and hope it doesn’t take too long to be published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.\u00a0 As you can tell by the full subtitle of “Book One: Born with Wings”, Judith’s Journey is only … Continue reading “Judith’s Journey<\/i> by Susan Jo Lewis (Amazon, 2025)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-take","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}