Book Review: Anne Boleyn By E. Barrington

It has taken me a while to get to this book but I finally did and...well let's get to the review:

Anne Boleyn by E. Barrington

A daredevil beauty stakes all and loses in the great game of kings and kingdoms…

Henry the Eighth was wedded to a total of six wives.

E. Barrington tells the romantic history of the most beautiful and vivid of them all - his second wife, Anne Boleyn.

Anne rises to fame when she captures the heart of King Henry.

He is married to Katharine of Aragon, but she is six years his senior, and though she has provided him with sons throughout their marriage, they have all died.

Henry is desperate for an heir, and he becomes captivated by the mysterious and shrewd Anne Boleyn.

But Christian law stands in his way, and their courtship is put on hold as he battles those in power to gain a divorce from Katharine.

And the moment Anne finally gets what she wants - the crown - is also the moment her downfall begins…

Barrington’s classic novel portrays Anne as shrewd, lovely, ambitious, generous, disillusioned, and resolved to capitalize her beauty for her own ends. This is the story of Anne, but also of the days of Anne - when the question over a woman’s virtue was paramount in the great game of kings and kingdoms…

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Well, I think we all know who Anne Boleyn is, she is the second wife of King Henry the Eighth and probably the most famous one of six of them.  And who doesn't like to read books about her, even if most of them are fiction?  I personally do, and when I saw this one on NetGalley, I'm not going to lie, the cover drew me in right away and it had been a while since I have read a Anne Boleyn story so I was glad that got a chance to read it and I have finally to some time to really sit down and read, since we are all in quarantine and more time in our hands, right?

I'm not going to lie, this was not was I was expecting, Anne Boleyn's books and movies are always full of action, and upbeat and on the go, do you know what I mean?  But this one?  It dragged a lot for the first three quarters of it, but I pushed through it and I got to the end of it and it was okay.  I was not in love with the writing and the way the story went from one point to the next it was confusing at times.  Anne was kind of boring too, and she was not supposed to be, in my opinion and towards the end I was expecting her to go more crazy and desperate and she really wasn't and that disappointed me too.  

Overall? It was an okay book to read, it took me a few more days that I like but I got to the end of it lol.

3 out of 5 stars

XOXO,

Nelia