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bvrnthewitch 's review for:
The Boleyn Inheritance
by Philippa Gregory
The Boleyn Inheritance gets five stars, partly for being well-paced, interesting and educational, and partly for getting me out of my reading slump, which has seen me dnf or put on hold four books. Maybe if I hadn't been so desperate to throw myself into a book I would have given it four stars instead - but this is the situation we are in, and I am so thankful that I'm reading again. Gregory's writing is so easy to follow, and she brings the characters to life in a way that makes it impossible to not be engaged. I'm desperate to know what happens next and have just bought the rest of the books in the series (and am now ignoring my bank balance). Definitely worth a read if you like historical fiction, or are interested in getting into the genre.
[One thing I am upset about is that Gregory has changed the series. Namely, instead of having two separate book series (this one, The Tudor Court series, and another, The Cousins War Series) she has combined the two into one, calling it the Plantagenet and Tudor Novels. I know its her right as it is her intellectual property, but as a reader who has been making her way through the Tudor novels and preparing to start the Plantagenet novels, it's really confusing, as suddenly everything has been renamed and it is really hard to find out which books were originally in the Tudor series. To me it would have made more sense to do a Terry Pratchett, and combine all the books into one series whilst also keeping them in their original, separate series. This isn't a complaint that will affect my opinion of the book, but I did struggle to find what books were next.]
[One thing I am upset about is that Gregory has changed the series. Namely, instead of having two separate book series (this one, The Tudor Court series, and another, The Cousins War Series) she has combined the two into one, calling it the Plantagenet and Tudor Novels. I know its her right as it is her intellectual property, but as a reader who has been making her way through the Tudor novels and preparing to start the Plantagenet novels, it's really confusing, as suddenly everything has been renamed and it is really hard to find out which books were originally in the Tudor series. To me it would have made more sense to do a Terry Pratchett, and combine all the books into one series whilst also keeping them in their original, separate series. This isn't a complaint that will affect my opinion of the book, but I did struggle to find what books were next.]