Helpful Score: 1
Read this for my online book club, The Reading Cove. I enjoyed Elizabeth's romance/marriage with King Edward, but all the plotting, scheming & worrying over the throne became very repetitive & stale.
Richards, Edwards, & Georges abound. It was such a chore keeping the players straight. I think this book was about 100-200 pages too long. The allegory of Melusina the water goddess and Elizabeth's being her descendant was completely overdone and pointless.
I think I'm burned out on Philippa Gregory's take on the English royals. I've read them all and after The Other Boleyn Girl, it just feels like it's the same story in each book, only with different characters. Same old scheming, spying, plotting, manipulating and beheading for the throne. Yawn. I think I'll be skipping the rest of this series.
Richards, Edwards, & Georges abound. It was such a chore keeping the players straight. I think this book was about 100-200 pages too long. The allegory of Melusina the water goddess and Elizabeth's being her descendant was completely overdone and pointless.
I think I'm burned out on Philippa Gregory's take on the English royals. I've read them all and after The Other Boleyn Girl, it just feels like it's the same story in each book, only with different characters. Same old scheming, spying, plotting, manipulating and beheading for the throne. Yawn. I think I'll be skipping the rest of this series.
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