The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn
Robin Maxwell
Historical Fiction again. I bet you’re all wondering how
many complaints I’m going to have with this one considering how little I like
Rose of Sebastopol. Let me spoil you on this review and tell you there’s not
many.
This book is told from the point of view of Elizabeth the first. During her first year of
ruling England ,
a retainer of her mother asks for a private audience. She then presents Elizabeth with the diary
her mother had kept since she was very young. Most of the story was snippets of
Elizabeth and
how she was escaping her duties to finish the diary but most of the story was
carried by the diary entries themselves. The things in Anne Boleyn’s diary
paralleled the things happening during Elizabeth ’s
reign and gave her the confidence to make several hard decisions that she had
been putting off.
N ow, I know that doesn’t sound like much of a story but I
find this kind of thing fascinating so I really enjoyed this book. Anne Boleyn
was always a popular and demonized figure in history because of the changes she
started in the English church and the things she was executed for. The writing
was compelling and the writer made it feel like this could really be parts from
Anne Boleyn’s actual diary. If you like historical fiction or stories from this
era, I’d say this is a book you should find immediately. If you want to try
something new, this is a fairly easy book to become absorbed in so go borrow it
from the library as soon as you can.
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