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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
This and the White Queen would have been better all as one book with some editing. Neither book grabbed me like the other Phillippa Gregory books I've read. I felt as I read this book, it would have been a better story to have the two parts woven together.
Margaret is incredibly self righteous, hypocrital, and insufferable but she's an absolute drama queen and I love her. How fun to be in her head! A stunning novel and companion to the White Queen.
Poor Philippa Gregory. Nothing will ever quite live up to the Other Bolyen Girl, but she is going to cling to this genre like grim death.
This is the 2nd book in the "cousins war" series and features the Tudor matriarch, and it took me a while to realize that is was parallel to The White Queen (the 1st book) which focused on the rival York matriarch. If someone was interested in reading one or both of these books, I would recommend reading them back to back to get the differing view points of the same events. I think I would have enjoyed this book more that way.
This is the 2nd book in the "cousins war" series and features the Tudor matriarch, and it took me a while to realize that is was parallel to The White Queen (the 1st book) which focused on the rival York matriarch. If someone was interested in reading one or both of these books, I would recommend reading them back to back to get the differing view points of the same events. I think I would have enjoyed this book more that way.
The character of Margaret Beaufort was extremely hard to like. Her holier-than-thou attitude and inability to take responsibility for her actions (by passing her indiscretions off as "the will of God") is exceptionally annoying. The book reads much slower than other Philippa Gregory novels - painfully so. There is hardly ever a hint of romance and the story simply consists of her whining about how hard done by she thinks she is.
informative
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I really wanted to like this book more than I did. At the beginning, I could attribute some of Margaret’s overwhelming piety and lack of understanding to her youth. I kept waiting for her character to develop, mature, or approach the people around her with a different perspective, but she just . . . didn’t. Every time I though something more intriguing might happen with either Jesper, or Henry Stafford, the story circled back to more of the same - Margaret hearing about the political manipulations and wars, not being able to do anything about them, and lamenting that she isn’t Joan of Arc. I know the story stays true to history, but Margaret was just not a likable character and I didn’t like that I had to learn about all of the intrigue through her perspective.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Recommended by Donna, who said the book is greatly written and narrated on audio.
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dark
emotional
informative
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very good! the other side of the story - the same events as in the White Queen, but told from Margaret Beaufort's (mother of Henry VII) point of view. I really enjoyed this!