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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180.The_Boleyn_Inheritance?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Boleyn Inheritance" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166719849m/16180.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16180.The_Boleyn_Inheritance?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Boleyn Inheritance</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9987.Philippa_Gregory">Philippa Gregory</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17550697?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>I read this after reading "The Other Boleyn Girl". It picks up where that book left off basically. I like this author's writing style and she makes history very interesting and fascinating. I gave this one three stars because it didn't captivate my attention like the other book and I had a harder time getting through it. But if you've never read "The Other Boleyn" girl, you could still read this one as she gives a lot of information so you don't feel lost. That's probably what bogged me down--the repetition of things I already knew. <br/> <br/>If you've read that book before this, you might have been a little bit confused, as I was, about who the characters were and how they played into the previous book. Jane Boleyn in this book is George's wife. I had always heard her referred by her maiden name and so I was confused at first if they were interrelated--but they are the same person. But you're all probably more intelligent than me and picked that up quickly... <br/> <br/>This book was intriguing and also terrifying to read about how totally CRAZY King Henry VIII was. He's crazy! I found the middle to be a little bit slow and redundant as each character kind of kept thinking the same thoughts, it seems. I almost couldn't get through it but then the pace picked up and I couldn't put it down in the last half. <br/> <br/>I did find it interesting at the end as I realized how the author had been almost satirical as she started out with jane seeming like she really believed she was innocent and holy (that's the part that confused me because she was so evil in the other book) and then you see how almost comical Katherine and Jane's thought processes were. All in all, this book really opened my eyes to such a crazy period of history. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/986041?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>