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A review by mjoyced
Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy
5.0
Interesting study of all the would-be assassins of Queen Victoria and how they shaped England's treason and criminal insanity laws. This audiobook was performed by Mark Whitten who does great voices of the assassins and Queen Victoria.
As other reviewers have commented, it has a lot of detail and many tangents. Since I was audiobooking this on my way to work to kill time, as long as the tangent was interesting (which I thought they all were), I wasn't bothered by it. I've read many historical fiction and non-fiction books set in the Victorian era, so I loved the details Murphy includes about Victoria's relationships with her children, prime ministers, gun technology, convict transportation, etc.
As other reviewers have commented, it has a lot of detail and many tangents. Since I was audiobooking this on my way to work to kill time, as long as the tangent was interesting (which I thought they all were), I wasn't bothered by it. I've read many historical fiction and non-fiction books set in the Victorian era, so I loved the details Murphy includes about Victoria's relationships with her children, prime ministers, gun technology, convict transportation, etc.