Title: An entertaining read,but...
Product review: While this book was an interesting read, and reasonably accurate as far as the events go, I found it a bit dissapointing in other ways. The chapters about Lucy are the best part of the book; it's a very accurate depiction of the average commoner's view of Anne Boleyn, and the whole divorce situation.The chapters concerning Anne are much less effective. This is yet another book where Anne is the calculating shrew, and Henry is the poor henpecked fool in love with her. Like a lot of books written about Anne, the portrayal of Anne (and Henry) is very one-sided; Anne is bad, Henry is good.That being said, I would have liked this book much more if not for its rather jarring use of modern day language. I found it very distracting and really kind of annoying. It's not that I was expecting the author to use historically accurate phrasing or anything, but it's really ridiculous to have Anne greeting a courtier with the phrase, "What's up?" It's just irritating after a while.
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