I really enjoy learning accurate history while I read/listen (at least piquing me to look up information if I don't know anything about it) and this book really did not do that. The Chalice really drops the ball with the historical fiction part. I thought The Crown had more interesting history as well. I'll make her do somthing really stupid and we'll see what happens.' Not a practical bone in this lead character's body.
It is as if the author thought, 'hm, not sure what to do next. She has absolutely no sense and makes really horrible decisions as well. More of the main character moaning about the choices she has to make, not liking them, making a choice anyway, then regretting the choice and being miserable. I had issues with the Crown, but thought I might have been over reacting. I read The Crown (first book in the series) and was interested, so picked up the second book. As the necromancers complete the puzzle, Joanna realises the life of Henry VIII as well as the future of Christendom are in her hands hands which must someday hold the chalice that lies at the centre of these deadly prophecies. To learn the final, sinister piece of the prophecy, she flees across Europe with an amoral spy sent by Spain. As one fateful night at the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket proves, she must make a choice between those she cares for most and taking her place in a prophecy foretold by three different seers, each more powerful than the last.
As the powerplays grow deadly, Joanna must realise if her role is more central than she'd ever imagined. Soon she risks arrest and imprisonment again, when she is caught up in a conspiracy scheming against Henry VIII. After seeing such sights, the quiet life is not for Joanna. Young Joanna Stafford has already tasted the wrath of the royal court, seen what lies inside the king's torture rooms and escaped death at the hands of those desperate to possess the power of an ancient relic. A bloody power struggle between crown and cross tears England asunder.
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