daybreak1012 's review for:

The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory

4.0

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I actually spent the first third of this book wondering why I was bothering, since most of it feels repetitive from the three wives who came before Kateryn Parr. More of how foul Henry VII was, both in mind and in body. More of the conniving and scheming and constantly changing tides of his court. More accusations, more deaths. I get that he went through wives like they changed with the season's fashions, but I started to wonder if they all needed to have their own story or if the point could have been made by putting some of them into a single book. I mean, some of them were barely on the throne beside his for a year. Just about the point I was really starting to get annoyed, though, I started to like Kat. By the end, I truly felt for her. In fact, awful as he was to his wives, I may have had more sympathy and compassion for his final wife than any of her predecessors. And now, Henry is gone, finally expired, and I know that the next book will be on to someone new.