Unabridged Audiobook
Philippa Gregory always does a wonderful job with details.
So disappointing. I expected this book to pick up where The White queen left off but instead its just the same story told through the eyes of the most boring, annoying Character of the last book. No new information was given beyond the last battle told of in the White queen. This character is so hard to like.
Loved this book!!
This was a difficult book to read because you just cannot like this woman. Yes, she was strong, yes, determined. Totally nuts. Religious but, Thomas Stanley( also not likeable) had the cynical view of religion that fit right in the time .
This was a tough read, Gregory's seething anti-Tudor hatred has been evident in her other books, and her it comes through to make this character really unlikeable. Why write about someone you clearly dislike? Margaret Beaufort was a far more interesting person than the caricature Gregory has created here. As usual, Amato's narration is flawless on these books but the book itself is not worthy.
2 1/2 stars is good for this, for the author did create some engagement with her characters and her story. But I could not finish it because she is a whiner! Yes, I realize that some of her experiences and her being "done to" all her life would be hard to take, but find something positive in there somewhere! I just couldn't listen to the nonstop whining anymore!
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