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This book presented a somewhat new view of Katherine Howard’s tale, or at least a view new to me. The entire story is told from the viewpoint of the best friend of Katherine, Cat Tilney, and it’s a somewhat sympathetic, but maybe more plausible, description of the entire debacle. Granted, the friendship between Katherine and Cat is likely very fabricated, and perhaps I liked it so much because the view presented is more in line with how I’ve always looked at Kitty myself.

The typical tale of Katherine is that she was a relatively simple minded girl who let her heart get the better of her in multiple situations. She’s always portrayed as very flighty, never putting much thought into anything, and only concerned with her looks and what that’ll get her. And there’s definitely some of that in this book, but Cat also represents Kitty as very calculating with her liaisons, and as knowing exactly what she’s doing the entire time.

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