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emilieteiko 's review for:
The King's Curse
by Philippa Gregory
I couldn't put it down. I haven't loved every book in the Cousins War series - Elizabeth of York for instance seemed idiotic to me - but I loved Margaret Pole's story. The stories of the war from the women's points of view are long overdue. I have not seen Henry VIII portrayed like this before. In male dominated history he is always amusing, eccentric, quirky, misunderstood and married so many times! Gosh! In this story, written from the point of view of a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a governess and caregiver for princesses and princes, he is a brutal, insane wife and child abuser and a serial killer. Its a story we don't hear very often and it has a real ring of truth to it.