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Sep 20, 2011
I picked up “The Red Queen” and “The Other Queen” randomly at the library. I am a fan of historical fiction, but I hadn’t read anything by Philippa Gregory yet. I finished “The Red Queen” and it wasn’t a huge page turner for me. I made it 60 pages in to “The Other Queen” and gave up. I can’t fault Gregory’s research, but the books plod along for me. This one was especially slow switching between the three viewpoints and I simply wasn’t enticed by Gregory to care what happened to any of them. I don’t think it is fair for me to rank it as I didn’t finish it. Other writers in the genre such as Sharon Kay Penman, Anne Easter Smith, Robin Maxwell, and Anya Seton romanticize their characters a bit, but I think their stories are more engaging.