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New York Times Bestseller The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king’s half sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner’s block, where Jane transformed her father’s greedy power grab into tragic martyrdom. “Learn you to die,” was the advice Jane wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and fall in love. But she is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her half sister, Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a Tudor son. When Katherine’s pregnancy betrays her secret marriage, she faces imprisonment in the Tower, only yards from her sister’s scaffold. “Farewell, my sister,” writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth’s suspicious glare. After seeing her sisters defy their queens, Mary is acutely aware of her own danger but determined to command her own life. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving Queen Elizabeth?
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Series: The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Atria Books (August 8, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 147675876X
ISBN-13: 978-1476758763
Product Dimensions:
6.2 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
585 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#46,980 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book divides up the sisters into their own sections told entirely from their POV. Unfortunately I found this tedious and longed for a new vantage point. This book is very dry and lacking the fun political intrigue and interesting characters that usually characterize Gregory's books. With her previous works I've been fascinated even when I'm very familiar with what will happen to the characters involved because she has found a way to shed new light and paint a different account. This version, however, is very boring and lackluster. I'd recommend reading a different book if you want to read about the interesting life of the Grey sisters.This book was hard to begin because I found Jane so insufferable. She is so full of herself and her belief that her piety makes her so much greater than anyone that she is very hard to take. Unfortunately the beginning is an overly long monologue before the book finally starts to pick up with the events that will lead to her coronation and of course her execution. There is very little backstory about her parents but there are subtle hints at her childhood and her parents actions at the tower make very clear where their priorities are. This account is very different from from the ones I've read in the books by Alison Weir and Ella March Chase. I can understand the authors taking divergent views of her personality but it is interesting that there is such different accounts of things I would have thought were well known, for example in this book Guilford is not a mean savage.If you aren't familiar with this complicated family or need a reminder you may want to look up what happened with the final wife of King Henry, as Katherine Parr and her husband Thomas are mentioned, as well as the rumors regarding him and the future Queen Elizabeth, but there are few details or backstory in this account. I always found it strange from the other books that Jane and Elizabeth weren't closer given their common faith but perhaps this version of Jane with her competitive piety explains that. I was surprised that this version differs so much in her last days with her confessor. I enjoyed the accounts in the other books of his esteem for her.Moving on to Katherine was a relief from Jane, at least at first. This version of Katherine sees her shortcomings and has her own ambitions but more than anything wants to marry her beloved. Unfortunately I've had a hard time with this book. I carried on with Jane to get to the end and I'd like to get to Mary to see how she is portrayed in this version, I'm already intrigued that she and the Queen's dwarf are not on good terms, but I find Katherine's section too tedious to read for long. I keep putting it down and I do not look forward to plunging through it. For that reason I haven't been able to finish it and cannot recommend it. I received ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I really enjoyed this book. It was fascinating to read about all three Grey sisters, especially the less-famous Katherine and Mary. It was an interesting view of the Elizabethan court and the religious politics of the time; I also liked the way Jane Grey was portrayed as a snobbish, pompous little girl who had a lot of growing up to do, as opposed to the Protestant saint she's usually portrayed as. The scene where Katherine points out that Jane's pious posturing is actually totally selfish was great. The book may have dragged a bit sometimes, but that's realistic: these people spend years and years in prison, where time really drags.The only major problem I had with this book was Elizabeth I. I've pointed this out in other reviews, but Gregory seems have a real beef with Elizabeth. I can't argue completely against this nasty portrayal of Elizabeth, especially when it's told from her cousins' points of view, because Elizabeth WAS pretty nasty and vindictive toward them. But behavior that is utterly condemned in Elizabeth is excused in almost all other characters, and Gregory is never fair to her.Take "Three Sisters, Three Queens" for example, which, similarly to "The Last Tudor", is told exclusively from a single viewpoint, Margaret of Scotland's. Margaret has some good reasons to hate Katherine of Aragon. Katherine's not only defeated and killed Margaret's husband in battle, but she denies him a Christian burial, which, in medieval Christianity, is not just disrespectful and unhygienic, but a real, hard-core sin, preventing him from entering Heaven and delivering a huge insult to Scotland. But Katherine gets to explain her strategy to Margaret, and Margaret is forced to see it from her viewpoint and accept that she herself was wrong. Because we are never, ever allowed to dislike Katherine of Aragon.Just as we are never, ever allowed to like Elizabeth I. I know "The Last Tudor" is told entirely from the viewpoint of people who have reason to hate Elizabeth. But unlike Katherine of Aragon, and at lot of other characters, Elizabeth is never given the chance to explain her reasoning. She's never allowed to explain that, yes, as a matter of fact, she DOES have to be at the center of all attention at all times or she is going to lose her power. The closest we ever come to seeing how Elizabeth turned out the way she did is in "The Queen's Fool", when she describes just how harrowing it was to be raised by someone who had good reason to hate her. The rest of the time, she's stupid, evil, weak (but also a tyrant), jealous, etc., etc., and we are never allowed to see any other side of her. She also gets blamed for every bad thing that happened during Mary I's reign (I was very impressed by the way Gregory managed to pin the blame for Jane Grey's execution onto her). Elizabeth also single-handedly ruined Katherine Parr's marriage to Thomas Seymour by seducing Seymour (and come on: which is more likely, that a thirteen-year-old deliberately set out to seduce away the loving husband or that an older, more experienced man started preying on his unprotected stepdaughter?). Where Gregory judges other characters by a more forgiving 21st-century ethos, she judges Elizabeth by 16th-century standards of behavior--unless, of course, 21st-century standards would make her look worse.So--good book but get ready for some serious Elizabeth-bashing.
I love Philippa Gregory books and have been anxiously waiting for this one to come out. What an incredible disappointment! Instead of Philippa's usual lively dialogue and interesting interaction between characters, this book (as much as I could force myself to read) is all musings of self absorbed women. The first part of the book is about Jane and 90% of it is her telling us how pious she is with barely a word change in the 90 different ways Gregory tries to get this tedious point across. Next comes Katherine, and after reading several chapters, with Gregory using the same formula to tell us how much she likes and deserves her creature comforts, I gave up on trying to get my $14 worth. Quite frankly, I'd give another $14 dollars to erase that drivel from my mind.Whether is was an attempt at a new writing style, or plain laziness, I will be very cautious and read a sample of Gregory's new books before purchasing them.
The worst Philippa Gregory book so far. It's long, tedious and repetitious. Such a disappointment! Perhaps these sisters were self absorbed complainers, yet there must have been a shorter and less boring way to tell their stories, which are interesting, if tragic. I've never had to slog through a PG book until now. Am shocked by the positive reviews.
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