I picked this up because I like historical fiction, and it is a period and event that hasn't yet been overdone (I am so over the whole Tudor period). Unfortunately, it's a bit violent for my tastes, and I've a suspicion that it's going to end up a bit like the movie, 'Titanic' - we know Guido Fawkes is going to try and blow up the Houses of Parliament. Pretty impressed at the depth of some of the research, but sometimes that research is getting in the way of the actual story.I eventually gave up - I just didn't care enough about the characters to waste any more time on it, and I didn't like some of the language used.