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Book Review of The Boleyn Inheritance (Boleyn, Bk 2)

The Boleyn Inheritance (Boleyn, Bk 2)
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Helpful Score: 2


Overlapping narratives of Great Harry's Queens 4 and 5 (Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard), with another plot on the fate of the possibly-mad widow of George Boleyn, Jane Rochford. You know, the one who helped to get Anne and George Boleyn executed by her ghastly accusation of....?

Another eminently readable page-turner from Philippa Gregory. I would rate it slightly below her other Tudor novels, simply because with the 2 queens and Jane Rochford, the plot didn't seem to have as much depth or focus.