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Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen
by Alison Weir
About halfway through this book I turned to a friend and said "Oh no...I think I'm going to have to spend the next few months reading this entire series."
I'm one of those people who has had an on-and-off obsession with the Tudors since childhood - have read books, watched documentaries, watched the HBO series and all the movies I could get my hands on, etc. I can re-enter this era as many times over as you can imagine and still be enthralled each and every time.
Of course I knew Alison Weir's name just from her popularity in my library, but I believe this is the first time I've actually read one of her books. What I loved most about this one is that even though I'm so familiar with these stories already, Weir still managed to make me feel at times like I was reading it for the first time. I rejoiced with Katherine when Henry fell in love with her even though I knew how it would end. I hoped alongside her that he might come to his senses and be persuaded to take her back even though I know how history unfolded. I didn't realize I could still feel that depth of emotion over these stories that I've already gone over so many times.
I love how deeply inside Katherine's head it felt like Weir was able to get, and I'm extremely excited to start Anne Boleyn's story in the next book because I can't wait to see if she's able to do the same from the rival perspective. Weir did such an amazing job painting Anne as a monstrous villain from Katherine's view, I can't wait to see how she flips that from Anne's perspective in the next one.
I'm one of those people who has had an on-and-off obsession with the Tudors since childhood - have read books, watched documentaries, watched the HBO series and all the movies I could get my hands on, etc. I can re-enter this era as many times over as you can imagine and still be enthralled each and every time.
Of course I knew Alison Weir's name just from her popularity in my library, but I believe this is the first time I've actually read one of her books. What I loved most about this one is that even though I'm so familiar with these stories already, Weir still managed to make me feel at times like I was reading it for the first time. I rejoiced with Katherine when Henry fell in love with her even though I knew how it would end. I hoped alongside her that he might come to his senses and be persuaded to take her back even though I know how history unfolded. I didn't realize I could still feel that depth of emotion over these stories that I've already gone over so many times.
I love how deeply inside Katherine's head it felt like Weir was able to get, and I'm extremely excited to start Anne Boleyn's story in the next book because I can't wait to see if she's able to do the same from the rival perspective. Weir did such an amazing job painting Anne as a monstrous villain from Katherine's view, I can't wait to see how she flips that from Anne's perspective in the next one.