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    <body><![CDATA[It wouldn't be hard to accuse me of building up so much anticipation for the release of 'The Other Queen' that it was doomed to fail from the start. Much in the way 'The Other Boleyn Girl' movie was always going to tick me off - even if I do love Eric Bana. So, I am willing to cop a little of the fl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21232078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gregory seems to have changed her style some since 'The Other Boleyn Girl'. This is certainly not a frothy bit of 16th century soap opera but quite a serious and well researched bit of historical fiction on life of Mary, Queen of Scots during the first few years of her imprisonment in England.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44035282">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book took me quite some time to get through.  I have read Philippa Gregory's other books, and though they are not always factually correct, and most often read like gossip mags, I have come to enjoy them and expect that of her books.  This was so long and drawn out, and not at all enjoyable.  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32589105">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not Philippa Grefory's best book by far, but it was okay.  The story of Mary Queen of Scotts, this one was told from the view point of three different people, and while the comparison between Mary and Bess was interesting, the book did seem very repetitive on many issues, and did drag a bit. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On those days when I'm feeling sorry for myself I can now say, 'Hey, it could be worse, you could have been Mary, Queen of Scots. Wow, was this depressing! I know, I know... It was obvious from the beginning that Mary's story would not end well, but still, I felt the urge to lecture the people in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46356215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off: I cheated.  As soon as I realized that this book was Tudor-Lite, I speed-read it just to be done with it.  <br/><br/>Which made me sad:  Great Britain in the 16th century is one of my favorite periods in which to read historical fiction and non-fiction, and I've read a *lot* of these bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42644880">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Phillippa Gregory novels are sort of my secret shame - I love her books and pretty much devour them as soon as they come out.  This one was...well, it was just okay.  The historical focus(Mary Queen of Scots) is intriguing, but...I felt like it was sort of just..meh, as Gregory basically gave Mary n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33957229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As an avid reader of Philippa Gregory's historical fiction, I was very excited for this book to hit the shelves but I ended up being somewhat disappointed with it.  The book takes place during the time of the house arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.  The story is narrated from three viewpoints-Mary, he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33336441">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The latest in Gregory's Tudor Court novels is about Mary, Queen of Scots. It sent me back to my Anne Somerset biography of Elizabeth I to look at certain details, and like most historical fiction, has prompted an interest in reading more actual history about the characters involved.<br/><br/>The b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21375810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>This is a review based on an Advanced Copy obtained at Book Expo 2008</strong><br/><br/><br/>Like a good wine, Gregory's work only improves with time. I found <em>The Other Boleyn Girl</em> to be tawdry and lurid, but have been pleasantly surprised with her works since then. <br/><br/><em>The Other Queen</em> tells the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24146580">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was disappointing. I usually love Phillipa Gregory's writing, but I found myself having a hard time getting attached to the story; it was told from three points of view, switching every page and a half or so. I liked Bess of Hardwick, I was intrigued by Mary, but George annoyed me. More of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41483912">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the latest book in the Tudor series and it is painful to get through.  I can pick up The Other Boleyn Girl and read through it in one sitting, but each book in the Tudor series grows more and more tired until we are left with the mess that is The Other Queen.  Using three different perspecti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33360176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I love about Philippa Gregory's novels is that you fall in love with the main character, even if you hated them as a periphery character in a previous book; and you also find yourself hating periphery characters that were main characters in another novel and you feel like your world is all upsi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46856616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading two of Gregory's other novels, I find it very comfortable to slip into her far away world of Kings and Queens.   Her myriad vision of deception, death at every corner, secret plots, and double-minded characters.  She creates a three-dimensional world with rounded characters that I can ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43774557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was somewhat disappointed by this one--it just wasn't as gripping as The Other Boleyn Girl.  It is about the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots and her caretakers, George and Bess Shrewsbury.  Each one of these three people is a narrator and unfortunately, they have a tendency to be repetitive.  I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74527073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third book I’ve read by Philippa Gregory (the others are The Constant Princess and, of course, The Other Boleyn Girl). I don’t find her to be a great writer, but I enjoy the historical period in which she sets her books. Tudor and Stuart England and Scotland are a source of never-end...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72256376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a Gregory fan, I am very very disappointed. This book has the same style as The Boleyn Inheritance, in which it goes back and forth between narratives of three different people. That, I did not mind. The narratives themselves are awful. You have Bess Hardwich who just goes on and on and on about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71706981">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Philippa Gregory is a skilled writer of historical fiction. I have enjoyed other of her novels. This one is fine, too, but it lacks a certain sparkle that I experienced with other of her works. The focus here is Mary Queen of Scots, depicted as a beautiful, conniving, utterly untrustworthy, but stil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70288400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can hardly believe I’m saying this, but Philippa Gregory’s newest novel, “The Other Queen,” was a tremendous disappointment. Partly this is because the main character, Mary Queen of Scots, is difficult to connect with. By page 150 her only contribution to the story – aside from a brief a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67724967">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Other Queen is my least favorite Phillipa Gregory book so far. I’ve also read The Virgin’s Lover and The Other Boleyn girl. I was a bit disappointed in this one. It was just too dull. It seemed to drag on and on…With that said, there were many very interesting characters in this story. Thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63746097">more...</a>]]></body>
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