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smiley938 's review for:
The King's Curse
by Philippa Gregory
I had about 200 pages left to go (out of this 600 page book) before I had to return it to the library. However, unless the writing drastically changed in the last 200 pages, I can write my review with confidence.
I used to be the #1 fan of Philippa Gregory books. Now I'm not sure if I've just gotten older with better reading acumen or Gregory's writing has declined, but this book was very tediously written. I could pull out multiple paragraphs throughout the book that all mean the same thing and do not progress the story at all. All it does is remind the reader over and over about the neurotic nature of the heroine. Maybe that was the point but it just resulted in the heroine coming off as annoyingly whiny.
I would recommend this book as a beach read for a long trip. It has the substance of a smaller chick lit novel but is long enough to last you for at least a week in the Bahamas. This way, you don't have to carry multiple books.
A couple of badly written sentences that I just pulled:
1. "I feel myself grow cold in the cold garden; my hands begin to shake." (pg. 312) - "cold" used twice in one sentence, yikes.
2. "The princess is so dainty and slight and the boy so handsome and tall for his age that they walk at the same pace, their copper heads aligned." (pg. 300) - nonsensical sentence about how being dainty/slight and handsome/tall somehow equals walking at the same pace.
I used to be the #1 fan of Philippa Gregory books. Now I'm not sure if I've just gotten older with better reading acumen or Gregory's writing has declined, but this book was very tediously written. I could pull out multiple paragraphs throughout the book that all mean the same thing and do not progress the story at all. All it does is remind the reader over and over about the neurotic nature of the heroine. Maybe that was the point but it just resulted in the heroine coming off as annoyingly whiny.
I would recommend this book as a beach read for a long trip. It has the substance of a smaller chick lit novel but is long enough to last you for at least a week in the Bahamas. This way, you don't have to carry multiple books.
A couple of badly written sentences that I just pulled:
1. "I feel myself grow cold in the cold garden; my hands begin to shake." (pg. 312) - "cold" used twice in one sentence, yikes.
2. "The princess is so dainty and slight and the boy so handsome and tall for his age that they walk at the same pace, their copper heads aligned." (pg. 300) - nonsensical sentence about how being dainty/slight and handsome/tall somehow equals walking at the same pace.