adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
dark funny reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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cazxxx's review

5.0
adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark funny medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was definitely very fun! Heaps of great representation and important topics tapped into. The writing style was a bit grating at times, with Maude as a first person narrator (unfortunately not helped in the audio book version by the authors own narration style), but it got easier after about half the book. I really wished the story would have stayed in the town they lived and not progressed to the court, with actual historical figures as characters (that's just a pet peeve of mine, and especially if it's the Tudors). But again, it was fun and I liked so much of it a whole lot!
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

neschm's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 20%

unlikable characters 
too much talk of pregnancies 


“I think you are a woman of power and intuition, Your Majesty”


“And does that make me a witch?”


“Only if it gets in a man’s way.”