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A review by suzemo
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
4.0
This book gets a bonus star because it features Anne of Cleves, my favorite (and the smartest) of Henry VIII's wives.
The story is told from the perspectives of Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleaves, and Jane Boleyn/Rochefort. The three narrators in the audiobook are all very fine voice actors (I have several books by each of them), and I think they were cast very well.
The story starts with Anne of Cleves getting pained by Holbein, the younger, and carries through Anne's marriage, subsequent divorce and life (to the point when Henry dies) and covers Jane and Catherine's lives from the time of Anne's marriage through their subsequent (spoiler alert!) executions.
I'm still loving the hate-portrayal of Henry, I thought the portrayal of all three of the women was very nice, and while I was confused by how Jane was written at first, I went with it, and appreciated that Gregory includes why she portrayed her like she did in the Author's Note at the end.
The only quibble I have, is that there are some inconsistencies between the books (probably what I get for listening to them one after the other), but I think that might be expected - I'm listening to them in internal-chronological order, not the order in which they were written/published. Who knows what the author was thinking, but between this and my watching of Reign on netflix, I'm getting plenty of historical trashy romance. Fun!
The story is told from the perspectives of Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleaves, and Jane Boleyn/Rochefort. The three narrators in the audiobook are all very fine voice actors (I have several books by each of them), and I think they were cast very well.
The story starts with Anne of Cleves getting pained by Holbein, the younger, and carries through Anne's marriage, subsequent divorce and life (to the point when Henry dies) and covers Jane and Catherine's lives from the time of Anne's marriage through their subsequent (spoiler alert!) executions.
I'm still loving the hate-portrayal of Henry, I thought the portrayal of all three of the women was very nice, and while I was confused by how Jane was written at first, I went with it, and appreciated that Gregory includes why she portrayed her like she did in the Author's Note at the end.
The only quibble I have, is that there are some inconsistencies between the books (probably what I get for listening to them one after the other), but I think that might be expected - I'm listening to them in internal-chronological order, not the order in which they were written/published. Who knows what the author was thinking, but between this and my watching of Reign on netflix, I'm getting plenty of historical trashy romance. Fun!