I loved The Other Boleyn Girl and The Queen’s Fool, but Philippa, you totally let me down on this one. Sure, there was all sorts of historical sauciness going on, but incestuous sauciness is NOT cool. It is gross. And the main character of this entire book is totally hate-worthy. I only read the whole thing because I kept waiting for her to die. But I guess when the narration is first person it’s sort of hard to kill them off mid-book, despite how much you may want to. Because then who would tell the story? Anyways, I felt like this book took like 400 pages to basically say “She sucked and then she died.” Pretty sure I won’t be picking up the sequel to this one, particularly because it seems to feature a new brother-sister combo and I’m not in the mood to read about more raunchy, incestuous sex. Ew, Philippa. Just, ew.
5 days ago
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I know, right? It was SO BAD, but I just kept reading. Also, my word verification is 'poorn' which is sort of how I feel about Wideacre
It's pretty bad when you feel motivated to finish a book just to see how a hateful character dies. I'm definitely staying away form this one, thanks for the warning!
It's like Flowers in the Attic for adults. The series doesn't get any better, trust me.
I have read all her Tudor books but have not ventured into her other ones. I guess I made a good choice.
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