Reviews - Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen

749 reviews for:

Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen

Alison Weir

3.96 AVERAGE

hooklings's review

5.0

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A historical novel so compelling I could hardly put it down. I’m so excited to have discovered Alison Weir!

1toomany's review against another edition

3.0

Overly sympathetic, even for fiction.

shibreadhed's review

4.0

challenging informative sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rodders's review

3.75

emotional informative sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

katreadsgood's review against another edition

3.0

emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

wildx's review against another edition

4.0

informative sad slow-paced

The way popular media skips over the more than two decades of Queen Katherine's marriage in order to focus on the scandal of Anne Boleyn has always made it so easy to forget and ignore the fact that Katherine of Aragon was, by far, the longest serving Queen by King Henry VIII's side and had earned so much love and respect from the citizens and people around her during that time. Thanks to this informative read, I have learned so much.

My biggest gripe about this read is the overuse of exclamation marks especially in the early parts of this book, but luckily that eased up a bit!