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The King's Curse
by Philippa Gregory
More like 2.5.
I didn't share a lot of the complaints that people had about this novel (and indeed, the other novels in this series). The theme of "the king's curse" didn't strike me as overly intrusive; it was mentioned a few times at the beginning of the book, and then it was muttered about with each new stillbirth/miscarriage, but otherwise it wasn't given an inordinate amount of attention, or even really the focus that it could have had as the title of the book. Which was fine - I think "the king's curse" was addressed more thoroughly in [b:The White Princess|12326627|The White Princess (The Cousins' War, #5)|Philippa Gregory|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1361537023s/12326627.jpg|17305270].
I also didn't mind the characters saying things like "my cousin, the queen," because you know what? They all have a million cousins and half of them have the same name, so yeah, I don't care if people wouldn't actually specify that stuff in real life, because otherwise I would have no idea who they were talking about. I can see how it would seem patronizing if you've studied the period extensively, but frankly, it was necessary for me. Heck, sometimes I still couldn't figure out who they were talking about.
Now that I've finished the Cousins' War series, I can safely say that a far more accurate title would have been "Men Are Terrible." I mean, Jesus Christ. These poor women. And Henry VIII. Wow. What a fucker.
I didn't share a lot of the complaints that people had about this novel (and indeed, the other novels in this series). The theme of "the king's curse" didn't strike me as overly intrusive; it was mentioned a few times at the beginning of the book, and then it was muttered about with each new stillbirth/miscarriage, but otherwise it wasn't given an inordinate amount of attention, or even really the focus that it could have had as the title of the book. Which was fine - I think "the king's curse" was addressed more thoroughly in [b:The White Princess|12326627|The White Princess (The Cousins' War, #5)|Philippa Gregory|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1361537023s/12326627.jpg|17305270].
I also didn't mind the characters saying things like "my cousin, the queen," because you know what? They all have a million cousins and half of them have the same name, so yeah, I don't care if people wouldn't actually specify that stuff in real life, because otherwise I would have no idea who they were talking about. I can see how it would seem patronizing if you've studied the period extensively, but frankly, it was necessary for me. Heck, sometimes I still couldn't figure out who they were talking about.
Now that I've finished the Cousins' War series, I can safely say that a far more accurate title would have been "Men Are Terrible." I mean, Jesus Christ. These poor women. And Henry VIII. Wow. What a fucker.