A review by hmblvj
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir

5.0

Alison Weir has done a good job cobbling together the little evidence there is of Mary Boleyn's life. I enjoyed her thorough investigation and the opportunities she gives the reader to formulate your own opinion of the subject. Having read the disastrous The Other Boleyn Girl, which I found to be a romance retelling the scandalous gossip told by detractors of Anne Boleyn, I much appreciate Weir's clean telling of the facts as they are and the conjectures suggested by contemporary sources. This is not a rollicking romantic summer read, but a serious study of a woman who had far more impact than most realize.