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Post by Divia » Tue August 18th, 2009, 4:40 pm

I'm glad everyone is liking it but after TOQ I'll wait and get my copy at the library.
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Post by Misfit » Tue August 18th, 2009, 6:12 pm

Reviews are rolling in at Amazon today. Although they're all so long.......
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Post by SonjaMarie » Tue August 18th, 2009, 6:19 pm

The only Gregory book I've liked so far was "The Boleyn Inheritance". Still going to do a wait and see what you guys think of "WQ".

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Post by Divia » Tue August 18th, 2009, 6:52 pm

[quote=""Misfit""]Reviews are rolling in at Amazon today. Although they're all so long.......[/quote]

Yikes. Its like they're writing a book!
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Post by Misfit » Tue August 18th, 2009, 6:58 pm

[quote=""Divia""]Yikes. Its like they're writing a book![/quote]

At least when Harriet's finally shows up it's blessedly short. I've already spotted it on one of her blogs.
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Post by Chatterbox » Tue August 18th, 2009, 9:57 pm

Mine downloaded itself into my Kindle while I slept overnight -- nice and painless, and only $14.29 (no tax, no shipment...) But I'm in the midst of finishing a rather good NF book, and then want to read the new Henry Porter spy thriller first...

re Mary -- she's such a romantic heroine *eyes roll* and she annoys me so much.... I actually think PG nailed her in the book -- an entitled and basically rather silly/stupid woman who misreads every situation and every person she encounters. I found myself liking TOQ less for the writing than for the characters (which I think she gets exactly right) and for the theme, although it's rather heavy handed (old aristocracy & divine right vs upstarts/nouveau riche becoming de facto aristocrats, with Shrewsbury & Mary on one side dealing in incomprehension with the new realities as represented by Bess & Cecil.) Could it have been better written? Absolutely. But I did admire her ability to capture those in fiction.

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Post by robinbird79 » Tue August 18th, 2009, 10:48 pm

Working on WQ right now.

So far its not too bad but if it is mentioned AGAIN that she's descended from Melusina or that she has Warwick and Clarence's names in her blood in her locket in her jewel box AGAIN...I'm going to smack someone.
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Post by Miss Moppet » Tue August 18th, 2009, 10:54 pm

[quote=""Chatterbox""]

re Mary -- she's such a romantic heroine *eyes roll* and she annoys me so much.... I actually think PG nailed her in the book -- an entitled and basically rather silly/stupid woman who misreads every situation and every person she encounters. [/quote]

Just exactly what I thought. So I was startled to read interviews with PG where she claimed to have produced a feminist re-reading of Mary's life and presented her as a 'modern heroine for Scotland' or something. The way Mary was written, she wasn't fit to be queen of the dormitory, never mind Queen of Scotland and the Isles.

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Post by boswellbaxter » Tue August 18th, 2009, 11:23 pm

[quote=""robinbird79""]Working on WQ right now.

So far its not too bad but if it is mentioned AGAIN that she's descended from Melusina or that she has Warwick and Clarence's names in her blood in her locket in her jewel box AGAIN...I'm going to smack someone.[/quote]

Keep the kids in the other room, for their own safety! :)

I broke down and bought a copy today, since it wasn't at the library yet. So Gregory's marketing people have done their work well.
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Post by Misfit » Wed August 19th, 2009, 12:13 am

[quote=""Miss Moppet""]Just exactly what I thought. So I was startled to read interviews with PG where she claimed to have produced a feminist re-reading of Mary's life and presented her as a 'modern heroine for Scotland' or something. The way Mary was written, she wasn't fit to be queen of the dormitory, never mind Queen of Scotland and the Isles.[/quote]

At the risk of going OT and having to move my own post :o :p

When I reviewed George's book on Mary and noted that I lost interest in the book not because of the writing but that Mary was..well..rather irritating I got a comment that maybe I should have given Mary 3.5 stars. Oh well, can't please them all.
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