Title: Not Her Best
Product review: I usually love Philipa Gregory books, but this one I am struggling to get through. With her other Tudor series books, it seemed that I would finish them in a matter of days. This one has taken me much longer to finish - mostly because I just don't care about the characters. It's fine to take liberties with history and paint Elizabeth as a younger, less confident queen at the beginning of her reign, but please give her some redeeming quality for me, as a reader, to care about! I ended up going to Wikipedia just to find out what actually happened to the characters because I couldn't wait any longer for this long, plodding book to tell me. Honestly, I found the Wikipedia account more interesting. I just don't understand how you can fill hundreds of pages with text and still have a story that doesn't go anywhere.
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