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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
I found this very pleasurable to read. Thick historical detail, trashy drama, and an earnest main character. I skipped sleep to finish it.
This book was fantastic. Absolutely spellbinding. The character development was so great that I felt like I knew the characters. This is a must read!
Gregory is one of the most famed for her modern media representation of Anne. She presents her as an outsider from the start, more in place at the French court. She is cruel and power hungry: stealing the King away from her own sister, accusing Katherine of sin and attacking her sister for remarrying without permission. Gregory’s work feeds into the anti-Anne rhetoric so well known today.
I felt like such an owner of a vagina reading this but it was terribly engrossing...a "I can't put this down but am embarassed to carry outside the apartment" type of book
Although the first half of the book was interesting, I did not begin to really enjoy it until Anne began to realize the true aims of everyone around her, and for the first time look out for her best interests. Then, I couldn't put it down.
This book is an interesting take about the ordeal of Henry VIII, Katherine of Aragon, and Anne Boleyn in that it is told through the eyes of her sister Mary. Mary is portrayed as being one of the few kinder characters in the Howard/Boleyn family who thinks with her heart while her parents, Uncle Howard, and Anne are cold and calculating. If you're looking for a nonfiction account about the Boleyns, this is not the book for you. But if you're looking for a book that takes pieces of history and adds drama to make it a riveting novel, then this is a book to add to your list.
I thought this would kind of a dumb trashy, airplane read but it was so utterly engrossing that I stayed up until 3 a.m. twice before I finished. There was lots of sex and intrigue, so I guess it was trashy, but who cares? A great read.
Definitely a good listen...just wish I'd gotten the UN-abridged version. Abridgements are kinda' like movies: Never as good!
Good book. I wish it included a bit more history and politics. Does a good job at demonstrating the power upper class families held through playing puppeteer with their kin.
I only reread this book so that I could be a hater with evidence