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lana_gwddnd 's review for:
The Red Queen
by Philippa Gregory
Not as incredible a novel as it's predecessor, 'The White Queen' but this novel is definitely constructed with the same draw. While many of the main events in the first novel that overlap in this book are skimmed over in a way that still manages to encompass the majority of the middle section of the book, the sympathy created for this woman we learnt to hate in the first novel that the author manages to create in the beginning the novel is trulying artful and the little insights we are given into her life throughout the middle section are worth pushing through the bulk of repetition. By the time the novel begins to catch up to where the last left off I was eagerly tearing through the pages, desperate to get to the end, knowing that the ending I would most want is historically impossible. I love how this author writes, and despite my hate for open endings, the 'almost' open ending nature of her novels fall in a different column as they end where true history can pick up. With each new novel I find myself attached to these characters and desperately wishing I could change history so that their endings could be more fairytale than they are. I have the next two novels ready to read but this novel has me greatly anticipating 'The White Princess'.