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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780743272513 ISBN: 074327251X Label: Touchstone Books Manufacturer: Touchstone Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: August 07, 2007 Publisher: Touchstone Books Studio: Touchstone Books Accessories: Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Life in the times of Henry VIIIThis book can be considered a sequel to Gregory's book The Other Boleyn Girl. This book though tells a slightly different story. This book centers on three women who have to deal with the aftermath of Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour. Jane Boleyn was the wife of George Boleyn and the sister in law of Anne Boleyn. Her testimony helped convict both of them leading to their deaths. When Henry VIII decides to marry Anne of Cleves Jane comes back to court to help. Anne ... Read More Rating: - Gregory tackles lesser known Tudor figures with winning resultsI have to admit that as much as I enjoyed "The Other Boleyn Girl," I liked "The Boleyn Inheritance" a great deal more. First and foremost, we are treated to a story about three women from English history that have been for the most part relegated to footnotes and back-burners, with the sole exception being Katherine Howard, who has received a more substantial amount of attention lately; however Anne of Cleves, Henry's fourth and most obscure (though not uninteresting) wife whose marriage to the king ... Read More Rating:  - Not as JuicyBe warned, those who enjoyed the juicy romanticism of The Other Boleyn Girl may be disappointed here. But the facts of the story have a little less debauchery as history writes... The author was daring as she split her tale between several women's voices... and in the end wove them back together again. (I listened to this novel on my iPod, and this gave the story a better cohesion.) Lade Jane Rochford, Anne Boelyn's sister in law, whose husband went to the scaffold for incest ... Read More Rating: - Boleyn InheritanceTurned out to be a pretty good book. It was a little confusing at the start since there are 3 characters points of view, but once you get to know the characters it gets really good. Rating: - Slow start, but good ending.I found all three main characters to be absurdly naive at the beginning, which was annoying and distracting. However, as events unfolded, the characters became much more realistic and, consequently, I was able to get into the book a lot more. It turned out to be a great read! |
