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pagesfullofstars's review
3.0
I was excited to pick up this book, because recently I've been interested in stories about Tudor England, but overall it pretty much disappointed me. I should've known not to have high expectations, since it's a novelisation of the TV series but unfortunately, it did suffer because of that.
The plot is developed but as far as I can tell, it follows the TV show very closely and doesn't offer much besides that. I liked it that there was many details and in general it kept my interest most of the times, but the characters were really under-developed. The author jumped from one character to another, never focusing much on any of them. The writing wasn't bad but I always had this feeling that it's only a slightly expanded screenplay, almost like the author couldn't show her real writing skills, because she had to conform to that, and it took away from my reading enjoyment.
The plot is developed but as far as I can tell, it follows the TV show very closely and doesn't offer much besides that. I liked it that there was many details and in general it kept my interest most of the times, but the characters were really under-developed. The author jumped from one character to another, never focusing much on any of them. The writing wasn't bad but I always had this feeling that it's only a slightly expanded screenplay, almost like the author couldn't show her real writing skills, because she had to conform to that, and it took away from my reading enjoyment.
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