Non-Review: Katherine of Aragon (Six Tudor Queens #1)
Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen (Six Tudor Queens #1)
By Alison Weir
Published By: Headline Fiction
Publication Date: May 1, 2016
Date Abandoned: January 22, 2022
Genre: Adult – Historical
Source: Bought
Format: Audiobook
Pages: 696
From Goodreads:
The lives of Henry VIII’s queens make for dramatic stories and Alison Weir will write a series of novels that offer insights into the real lives of the six wives based on extensive research and new theories.
In all the romancing, has anyone regarded the evidence that Anne Boleyn did not love Henry VIII? Or that Prince Arthur, Katherine of Aragon’s first husband, who is said to have loved her in fact cared so little for her that he willed his personal effects to his sister? Or that Henry VIII, an over-protected child and teenager, was prudish when it came to sex? That Jane Seymour, usually portrayed as Henry’s one true love, had the makings of a matriarch? There is much to reveal …Alison will write about the wives in the context of their own age and of the court intrigues that surrounded these women and – without exception – wrecked their lives. She will transport readers into a lost and vivid world of splendour and brutality: a world in which love, or the game of it, dominates all.
I really, really wanted to love this one. I’ve been pushing myself to read books different to what I usually read and as a lover of tudor history I was super excited to start this one. I was just left really deflated and disappointed in this one.
I actually started this one in March 2021 and abandoned it after listening to about half of the audiobook. It was super slow and boring and I just couldn’t continue. I was determined to finish it, and so in January 2022 I decided to continue and see if I could get through it. I wish I could… but I just couldn’t. I completely lost interest in it and I wasn’t bothered about anything that was happening. I just wanted it to be over. When I get like that, I know it’s time to just give up and move on. I feel like this book could have been a good 300+ pages less and you’d still get the same impact. It was too long and really boring to me. I wish I’d liked it but unfortunately, this one just wasn’t for me.
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