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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Today's 'Big Deal' at Amazon UK is most of the Tudor Court novels by Philippa Gregory at £0.99 each.
I've had my eye on these for a while as something that I would probably like. Has anyone read them? Are they good? Are they historically accurate? |
I read
The Other Boleyn Girl a long time ago and didn't like it. Didn't like it a lot, in fact. Gregory bent historical fact to serve her narrative, which involved a lot of projection verging on Mary Sueism. I can't remember the specifics at this distance, other than she made Mary the younger sister of Anne, which of course totally altered the dynamic of Mary's having been Henry's mistress before Anne came along. My reaction was that I'd never read another and I never have.
I'm persnickety about these things; one major factual error and I tend to be out, but remembering your reaction to
Outlander, you may be also.