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The Boleyn Inheritance
Author: Philippa Gregory
ISBN: 074327251X
Publisher: Touchstone Books - 2007-08-07
Format: Paperback
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Another good installment

I enjoyed this sequel to The Other Boleyn Girl. Told from the perspective of three different women, it picks up after Anne Boleyn has been beheaded and tells the tale of Henry's successive wives. Full of intrigue and suspense as well as beautiful and mostly accurate descriptions of the place and time.

The madness of Henry VIII

The Boleyn Inheritance continues where The Other Boleyn Girl left off. Henry is once again looking for a wife and this time he looks to Cleves. Anne's arrival to the English court follows intrigue, passion and more romantic drama as the perpetually fickle Henry falls for yet another lady in waiting to yet another queen. For those who enjoyed The Other Boleyn Girl, this is a welcome addition but not necessarily as fast-paced. There is a lot of introspective repetition i.e. characters thinking out loud the same thoughts over and over again. Jane Boleyn's character touches the reader, as does that of Katherine Howard. Jane leaves a slimy, deceptive impression on you in the previous book but in this one, PG deliberately makes you confused in what you feel for her.
The book is very well written and the characters are extremely strong in their impact. The story is obviously based on actual history with a few stretches. Towards the middle of the book, I felt... disgusted. Why? Well I felt disgusted with Henry VIII once again. It is amazing, the number of people he sent to the block and stake just because they did not agree with him. The helplessness of his people, family and his tyrannical rule almost put a fear over the reader. Every tale entwined in Henry's life starts with a castle and ends with the execution block. I think this disgust is PG's success in writing a very good book. I will now turn to something lighter, like fantasy!

To thine own self be true,

This book is worth every dedicated minute of reading.

Its historically accurate, and if youve studied, or like anything about Tudor England or the Boleyns, this is a great insight and should be added your treasure trove!

A wonderful, WONDERFUL read!

It is told from the propectives of Anne of Cleves,(Wife #4 of Henry VIII) Jane Boleyn (Georges' Wife) and Katherine Howard (Wife #5). Which in the beginning I thought would be kinda confusing and chaotic to try and keep up with 3 storytellers, but DONT let that be a deturant. It flows, and each chapter is refreshing to have a different voice.

Get it and Read IT!

Wonderful

Great and human writing showing this time in history. I read it again and again.

Phillippa Gregory

Thoroughly enjoyed this and all of her books which I have read already...planning for several more!

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Three women who share one fate: the Boleyn Inheritance

ANNE OF CLEVES: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the terror of a vengeful king who despises her. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witness.

KATHERINE HOWARD: She is in love -- but not with the diseased old man who made her queen and beds her night after night. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of the axe.

JANE ROCHFORD: She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchange for her soul.

The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror. Once again, Philippa Gregory is at her intelligent, page-turning best.

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