A review by erainbowd
Wideacre by Philippa Gregory

I think I'm going to give up on this book. I just read some other reviews and see that I'm not the only one. . . I haven't even gotten to the incest yet that seems to be the stopping point for most people. I think maybe this is another one of those books I'd rather watch a play or a movie version of. It's like being in Iago's head all the time when part of what's great about Othello is seeing the villainy from all sides, the victims, the perps and all the reverberations. This book is just relentless somehow. It feels like one long justification of bad behavior. Maybe I'll pick it back up the next time I have to play a villain. I'll get some tips from this one.