Title: An appallingly bad book. . .
Product review: If you love history and historical fiction, if you've been fascinated by Anne Bolyn or Henry VIII, if you love big, juicy period tales----please avoid this book at all costs! I, like many of the reviewers here,have long gobbled up everything I could about Anne, and even played her in Maxwell Anderson's wonderful drama, "Anne of the Thousand Days," and this was a bloody awful attempt at a retelling of her story. I felt nothing for any of the characters---(how on earth can Henry and Anne be boring for heaven's sake!), got confused by the muddying of the sequence of events, and loathed her unaccountable use of modern slang which ruined any hope of getting a real sense of the era---she actually referred to Thomas Bolyn as "dad" in the book! I only finished it--scimmed it--out of a horrified disbelief that anything so unredeemingly bad could get published.
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