Book Review
Oct. 14th, 2013 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariThe Boleyn Deceit
by Laura Andersen
This is the sequel to The Boleyn King, and it continues the story of an alternate Tudor court in which Anne Boleyn did have a living son. We again follow King William, Princess Elizabeth, and their close friends Minuette and Dominic. In this book however, there is a bit more focus on the politics and intrigue of the court and the world, with the romance aspects taking a little more of a secondary role. The narrative takes up where the first book left off as the love triangle becomes more intense and complicated and the political intrigue becomes more convoluted and more dangerous.
I liked this book better than its predecessor. Andersen gets more into the way politics both in the English court and with Europe would work in this altered world, and as the conspiracies become more complex, the stakes become higher. There was a lot more going on. It also made me re-evaluate the first book, as I now see it more as setting things in motion for a much larger story. I do hope that we eventually get to find out what happened to Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, and Katherine Parr in a world where they did marry the king.
by Laura Andersen
This is the sequel to The Boleyn King, and it continues the story of an alternate Tudor court in which Anne Boleyn did have a living son. We again follow King William, Princess Elizabeth, and their close friends Minuette and Dominic. In this book however, there is a bit more focus on the politics and intrigue of the court and the world, with the romance aspects taking a little more of a secondary role. The narrative takes up where the first book left off as the love triangle becomes more intense and complicated and the political intrigue becomes more convoluted and more dangerous.
I liked this book better than its predecessor. Andersen gets more into the way politics both in the English court and with Europe would work in this altered world, and as the conspiracies become more complex, the stakes become higher. There was a lot more going on. It also made me re-evaluate the first book, as I now see it more as setting things in motion for a much larger story. I do hope that we eventually get to find out what happened to Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, and Katherine Parr in a world where they did marry the king.
