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Juliana Chacon julianachacon — I am currently reading this to my son, who is only two but he loves the illustrations and it is so much fun for me to read out loud. We usually only read a few pages at a time due to his attention span, but since he has been a little under the weather he loves being read to longer, sitting in the chair with Mummy and a blanket.

Abha Anand _bha — *Disclosure: I received this as an Advance Uncorrected Proof via Goodreads Firstreads Giveaway* I have to admit I had my reservations about this book when I started, it seemed to drag on and on about dates of ancestral homes and titles. I know that those are important for context later but they were given so woodenly it felt like a chore to wade through and assimilate that information. The 8 or 9 pages given to the discourse of who was the elder daughter, Mary or Anne was in my opinion too much. Understandably it is important to identify for the sake of a biography who is an elder sibling but I think the information could have been condensed without losing much credibility. I would have loved more information on Mary’s actual time in the French courts but regrettably there was not enough factual information for Weir to build on there so we get snippets of information of her time in France. Weir is very good at giving her readers the truth, she seems to be very thorough in providing her readers with the rumor and squashing it or enlivening it with facts. I have to say I was not really drawn into the book until about page 100 or so where it started giving more information that was not all conjecture. Sadly only two letters survive written by Mary Boleyn and all other information is based on gossip or court records. It must be overwhelming to an author to try to build a book around so little information but Weir did well anyway. Arguably the best part of the book, for me, was the last 150 pages or so and the Appendix I that lists her families successes after Mary’s death. We're even told of the more famous of Mary's decendants that have some very recongnizable names. All in all Alison Weir did a wonderful job writing about a woman that “all the world did set so little store by.” A woman that is touted as being the mistress of Kings but really probably had little say in if she wanted to be their mistress. Let’s face it a young teen would rarely have the nerve or even the foresight to say no to the King of France when propositioned. Later after marriage and with the status, land, and titles her family had to lose would she really have dared to say no to the likes of King Henry, a man whom no one said no to?