From there, each section emerges with a unique voice, at times telling overlapping stories from different perspectives, an aspect I deeply enjoyed. But the book improves dramatically once it surmounts the first chapter’s drudgery. It turns out that’s also the book’s saving grace because, had the whole book been told in the voice of Candace Fleming’s Katharine of Aragon, the book would have been insufferable. But what got me past that bit is the fact that each queen’s story is imagined by a different writer–that stood out and caught my interest. (Note: not from the point of view of each of Henry’s lovers–because there are even more of them.) Which inspires the book’s melodramatic subtitle, The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All. It’s complicated.) Fatal Throne offers a retelling of that story, alternatingly told from the point of view of each queen. (Note: turns out he did have sons–two of them. Many are vaguely familiar with Henry VIII and his six wives, each of whom met a variously cruel fate in his quest for a son.
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