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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780743227445
ISBN: 0743227441
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: 2003-06-04
Publisher: Touchstone
Studio: Touchstone

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The Constant Princess (Boleyn) The Boleyn Inheritance (Boleyn) The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In) (Boleyn)

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Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a king

When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her familys ambitious plots as the kings interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. Then Mary knows that she must defy her family and her king, and take her fate into her own hands.

A rich and compelling tale of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue, The Other Boleyn Girl introduces a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamorous court in Europe and survived by following her own heart.

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Summary: not your feel-good romance, prepare for some disturbing behavior
Comment: I devoured this book in two days. The author's writing style compels you to keep turning pages...you have to find out what (usually awful) It is kind of like seeing roadkill, you want to look away, but you just have to find out what the heck that thing was... I found the book to be somewhat disturbing in several parts. When I got done, I felt satisfaction at being finished with it, but unable to really recommend it to anyone in that it really was depressing to follow all the characters through bad choices and the farce of their lives. I think the author is a very talented writer - but I didn't care for the storyline.

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Summary: Dreadful Historical Romance
Comment: The Other Boleyn Girl is overlong, filled with tedious and unnecessary descriptions of Henry VIII-era women's clothing, barely touches on the genuine religious background for the novel (indeed makes it seem that the principal reason for the break between England and the Church of Rome was because of the machinations of the Boleyns) and despite the title is more about Anne Boleyn and Henry than the Mary of the title. The narrative is simply heavy-handed. Mary seems to be everywhere anything important is happening or manages by chance to overhear important information or picks it up via weakly developed exposition. It's supposed to be a historical romance, but there's precious little genuine history and and not a lot of romance. Oh . . . and the ending takes 700-plus pages to get to, but it's all telegraphed by page 350 or so.

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Summary: Characters were so alive, I thought I was a part of it all!
Comment: I have always been a big fan of English history so I immediately saw the movie based upon the book. Always wanting to find out more I bought the book myself and from the first page I was hypnotized. The characters are so vividly brought alive that I felt their fear, joy, love, and pain. I grieved with Mary and felt her sorrow for the death of her brother and sister regardless of the acts they did to get to the "chopping block". I am pleased to read the book from Mary's point of view; despite her being the "loser" you can't help but to cheer for her every step of the way. This is the first time I have been introduced to Philippa Gregory, and I am looking forward reading her other historical fiction novels!

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Summary: Great
Comment: I haven't read a book this good in quite sometime. I watched the movie and absolutely loved it and I thought I would read the book and like most movie books it was fantastic. It was so captivating I didn't want to put the book down I read it in 4 days. It was so refreshing to read I suggest this book for anybody who wants to read a great suspenseful story.

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Summary: Seductive
Comment: While the characters seduce Henry and his court, so too does this book seduce readers as each page is turned. Readers may find it easy to follow the life of Anne Boleyn, who is both sassy and sultry; yet, we are forced to follow the emotions of her more subdued sister, Mary Carey. However, as the story progresses, we grow to love Mary's even-tempered perspective, while we shrink from Anne's ever-increasing power--and temper. As the story progresses, Mary emerges not as "the other Boleyn girl" but as the one who is stronger and, in the end, more seductive, for we have trusted only her to reveal the truth.

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