Bookish Ally's Reviews > The Boleyn Inheritance

3.75 stars, rounded up to 4.

I liked the subject matter, two lesser known queens of HenryVIII, Anne of Cleve and Katharine Howard. We are given a (fictionalization) perspective from Anne, Katherine, and Jane Boleyn, and their relationships to, and with, each other. The traditional view of Howard being a tart that was not the brightest light, was given, and heck, she was executed at 16. Not that her choices or what she may or may not have done had anything to do with her death. Henry was a maniac. He was an obese and unpredictable maniac that had a leg with a festering wound that stunk so bad that it perfumed the air around him like a cat box. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would have run towards THAT. By the way, his father was a maniac as well. They all were. Is that why we constantly revisit this horror story? Another good read by Philippa, not her best, but worth the read.