Review Detail

Reader reviewed by Kristen

Catherine Howard is to be King Henry's newest bride. Only 15 years old,
she has caught the eye of the King just after he has sentenced and
executed his last wife - Anne Boleyn.

But
Catherine has a dark past and is not the virgin wife that Henry is
expecting. She plays her part, but, as we know from history, she is
doomed to fail him.

I love the insight this book gives into how
Catherine may really have been. She was barely a young woman when she
wed King Henry and she already had a history of a past lover and a
potential engagement to her cousin. But one does not turn down the
King. Her family assures her that if she burns the past, it will not
come to light.

Unfortunately, they are wrong. She sins before
and during her marriage to Henry and, while reading this, you start to
understand just how much of a child she really is - how much she
doesn't really know what she is doing.

I love the romance in
this. The character that Libby portrayed in this novel is a girl just
coming into her age and not expecting at all the turn of events that
lead her into becoming Queen of England. I really ate this book up, the
romantic and political intrigue of the royal family and court life
thrilled me to no end.

If you love historical fiction, romance and royal families, you'll love this novel.