I can't even remember why I got this actually. Usually I do, but it's just a blank in this case. I mean I ordered it so there must have been a reason...
In any case I ordered it, and I read it, and I didn't like it very much.
I found it boring actually, it felt like I was reading a really long historical complaint. And I know that Philippa Gregory specialises in historical novels, but that does not mean that they have to be so dull.
And I like history! I think it's great! But the main character here, Margaret Beaufort was just annoying and self righteous and not all that interesting.
She's a very religious person and she's completely convinced of her own greatness. She's persuaded that she has her own personal connexion with God, who apparently speaks to her directly.
And her destiny (or so she believes) is to put her son Henry Tudor on the throne. And so first of all you have to hear her moan about her marriage to her first two husbands (whom were chosen by her mother), and then you have to wait until Henry is actually old enough to understand what a throne is, and then there's the multiple plots and plans to overthrow the kings currently in place.
All this with Margaret moaning about what she deserves, and what God owes her, and why she's so much better than everyone else.
Boring.
And of course she moans about how her York cousins are in power, when the throne should be in the hands of her side of the family (the Lancaster cousins).
This is meant to be series, and the second book is called "The White Queen", but I'll not be getting it. I'm just not interested enough.
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