The Content Reader

This is a review for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2014 hosted by Historical Tapestry   (historicaltapestry.blogspot.be/) I have got a new favourite historical fiction writer. From somewhere I ran into her name and found a teaser of this book. It sounded interesting and furthermore on her web-site (http://www.jgharlond.name/) she referred to two non-fiction books as background material, the Tulipomania  by Mike Dash and The Entity  by Eric Frattini. I actually read  Tulipomania  before I read her fictional book. As you have seen from another post on this site it is a fascinating story. Harlond has used this true story as a set up for her fictional story about Ludovico de Portovenere, Marcos and Alina. It is a dashing story set between 1635-37 in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and England, of ships, pirates, merchants, tulip lovers, man and women trying to survive in a time of war and uncertainty. Spain has lost its hold on the Netherlands and are -...