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Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel Of Queen Mary Tudor (2009)

by Julianne Lee(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0425230082 (ISBN13: 9780425230084)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Berkley Trade

review 1: If I didn't know anything about Mary Tudor, I think this would be a good book to know about her life and reign. As it is, I did not enjoy this book as much as I thought I would. Some of the author's sayings were weird, such as comparing chaos to being stirred with a spoon. I also didn't really appreciate how the author switched various points of view. This was an okay read, but I won't ever re-read it, and I probably wouldn't recommend it cause I can think of several books which are so much better.
review 2: I was intrigued by the subject and by the author's intention to offer a different perspective on the monarch affectionately known as Bloody Mary. The biggest problem for me was not the fact that the author's attempts to humanize Queen Mary often came at the... more negative portrayals of those around her (for I am sure Henry VIII was no picnic), nor was it the unapologetic justification for her later actions as Queens (i.e. being banished and declared illegitimate by her father; her nearly life-long persecution for adherence to the "old religion"). Its simply the fact that as a whole, the book is not very well-written. I found the changing points-of-view and interspersed stories of the English commoners distracting, clunky and lacking whatever effect the author so clearly meant to convey. less

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