A review by mangela_28
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood

4.0

Very interesting and not overly dry. It's not the easiest gistory book to read, but it's definitely easier than most. Sarah Gristwood sprinkles in a bit of humor. There are a lot of people, many with the same or similar names, but there are family trees and little summaries about most of them at the start. The writing style bugged me sometimes; I could have used more commas or a way to help me clarify what pronoun or adjective goes with whom. When I read with a Prince Charles accent, the flow was better and I could focus more.

It seemed like most chapters ended with a comparison to Anne Boleyn even though she doesn't show up for a while and she is not the main character (all the women are equal main characters). I learned a lot and want to keep digging into the histories of queens.