Katie's Reviews > The Boleyn Inheritance

I read The Other Boleyn Girl first and that book should bow down to this one. The books hardly compare. This one is by far the better book. Although I greatly enjoyed both, for me this one was told in such a unique way and by women I didn't know much about that it grabbed me from the beginning. It tells the story from three different perspectives. One unexpected and extremley interesting the wife of Anne Boleyn's brother, now a widow. Lady Rochford (Jane Boleyn) is now a bitter older women wanting to be kept involved in court life and is haunted by a past mistake. It then switches to Anne of Cleves. She is sitting and being painted. This portrait will be sent to the King. There he sends for her to become his wife. When he sees her he is disgusted by her. How can she handle such a situation with a hateful brother back home and a hateful husband in England? The third person is Henry's eventual fifth wife the young teenage Katherine Howard. She is young, foolish, and loose and has no idea that her fate will lead her to the King and her mistakes to her death. This story weaves three extrelmely interesting and entertaing stories into one. It is told in an engaging way and it makes you want to keep turning the pages. It is one of the best Elizabethean historical fiction I have read and defintley my favorite by this amazing author. It will captivate you and move you.