The Other Boleyn Girl

"I’ve read every single book related to this time period by her and every single one is fantastic!!!"

"Book 9"

"It's so good! It's one I've read over and over!"

"I loved this book... the movie not so much."

"I’ve read this book so much that the spine is broken in a few places and lays open by itself. The movie…meh. This book focuses more on Mary than the movie does, which focuses too much on Ann. "

"Loved.it"

"I've wanted to read this for a long time. I'm not sure why I didn't before now, but I got an email from goodreads with a great price so I bought it without a second glance. Then I started reading. If there is one thing I got out of this book, it's that I'm glad I was never apart of the Tudor court. Nor a Howard or Boleyn girl. Or any girl of notable birth, really. I couldn't imagine a life that wasn't truly my own.<br/><br/>I know this is dramatized for the sake of the readers, but I can't imagine this being too far off the mark. Anne was just as I thought of her. Calculating. What I hadn't truly thought of was the fear. The fear of the unknown. How can one little baby change things so dramatically? <br/><br/>I'm not a historian, but some things fascinate me. One of them is King Henry VIII and his obsession with a male heir. The lengths he will go through to get an heir are staggering. When he should have been remembered for other things, this will be the only thing he is remembered for. For the most part.<br/><br/>Mary. This is all told through her eyes. I'm not sure if she really did find true love. I know there are differences in the book versus in life. I'm glad, after everything she had to witness, endure, cover up or was forced into by her father and uncle, that she finally found love. True love. That she didn't settle for whatever plans her family had for her and she seized it herself.<br/><br/>I've watched this movie. I've watched the Tudor series. The one thing I wasn't expecting was to grieve with Mary over the loss of her brother. He was someone I always found to be weaselly and never had any real thoughts of. But through Mary's eyes, I was sad. She loved him. In all her time as mistress and then lady to her sister queen, she had her brother to guide and help her. Her sister Ann was self serving and conceited, which made it easy to not like her. It made it easy to see the kind of man that King Henry VIII might have been. The madman that was relentless in his pursuit of a boy."

"Book is way better than the movie"

"[Source: bustle.com]"

"My favourite book of all time. Very different (and much better) than the movie."