A review by robinreadsgoodb00ks
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

3.0

The War of the Roses has long interested me, and this novel provided a very good, accessible, sweeping view of the history. Well researched, the first person narrative and fictional elements worked reasonably well. I feel rather mean spirited with my 3 star rating, because Philippa Gregory truly did a great job synthesizing a chaotic and complicated time period into the voice of Elizabeth Woodville, the beautiful and unpopular Queen of Edward IV. The writing was sometimes distracting with heavy handed foreshadowing and a slight sense of the author's fatigue in managing all the Edwards, Richards and changing alliances.
I am still a big fan of Gregory for historical fiction and am looking forward to more titles in this series.