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was conflicted about this one, Loved the writing itself, the way the words flowed, Felt cheated that the title implied a different approach I expected a story written from Catherine Howard's POV, didn't really like the first person narrative I rarely do, and got annoyed at some of the toomodern dialogue.
I also was in two very different minds about the ending, On the one hand, I found it far too sudden but at the same time, it really stayed with me to the point where I reread just those last pages a few times so I have to give the author credit for that kind of power.
I enjoyed the first part of the book and how it skipped between the past and the present.
What I didn't like was how it ended, I felt there was so much more that could have been written it ended rather awkwardly, There is so much more the author could have used she didn't incorporate Katherine's frantic plea for survival running down the hall of the Tower of London, banging on the door where King Henry was how juicy of a narrative is that You could do wonders with that or how she asked for the execution block and practiced how she would lay her head in preparation for her beheading.
All this would have really contributed to the story,

I was also rather confused as to how Cat and she became best friends, Cat admits that she had little interaction with Kate one moment, she dislikes Kate and then, a little later on, the two are best friends, and I'm not quite sure how we got there.
I've always felt bad for Katherine Howard she was accused of being flighty and unfaithful, Poor thing was thrown into the bed of this old fart and expected to enjoy it Of course she would want attention from someone her own age.
But, I'm getting excited. The book was alright again, I liked the beginning but the ending just seemed really abrupt, Life in the household of the Dutchess of Norfolk was susposed to be a stepping stone to social graces and eduction.
Mother's sent their noble daughters to be taught to read Latin, play the virginals and dance, What the girls really learned was very little in the way of prep for a position at court.
The improvished noblewoman kept up a front, all the while keeping very little control over the doings in her household.
In fact, the girls were allowed to 'run a little wild',

Writen not by Katherine, but by one of her close friends, the reader walks along side the girl destined to be a queen.
Like most very girls Katherine experiments with womanhood and learning the art of flirtation, We also see Katherine pushing the limits a bit too far with young swains she knows will never met with the Howard family approval.


'They never asked me if I was a virgin,before I married the king,' Katherine states.
A valid point to make as Cranmer and Cromwell go about investigating her past, Katherine Howard gets to play queen at the cost of her life, This was such an annoyingly anachronistic read! GAAAAR! Phrases you will encounter: "I bet, . . " "Yup. " "Kidding!" "It'll blow over. " And my personal favorite: "What goes up must come down, " Although I don't have proof, I think it's conventional knowledge that Isaac Newton came up with that phrase, and he wasn't around for anotheryears or so.


If anything, this is like Gossip Girls set in Tudor England, And while I did keep turning the pages, I was underwhelmed most of the time,

Basic premise: A young woman, Cat Tilney, recounts the rise and fall of her friend Katherine Parr, who has become Queen of England but who has an unfortunately voracious sexual appetite and the morals of an alleycat.
We all know how the story will endbut what actually defies belief is how Cat ever became friends with Katherine to begin with.
Cat begins by being fairly indifferent at times she is exasperated and almost antagonistic at no time does she appear to develop a close friendship.
And yet there she is, at the end, as close to Katherine as anyone could be, So the author really dropped the ball on developing these character relationships,

All in all, I am quite happy to be done

with this book, This is going to be the last book I read by this author if she chooses to publish more.
So far I have given the three books,andand this one is back down again, It is the story of a 'friend' of Katherine Howard who knew her as they grew up together and came to serve her at Court.
It focuses much more on the relationship between both girls and Frances Dereham than Katherine as Queen, which was disappointing.


Character development is non existant, Katherine Howard is an unpleasant, cold, snotty bitch through the early book, leaving her totally unlikable, When you are meant to feel sympathy for her, you just can't find any, The only thing that kept me going was knowing Katherine was going to the block herself, This book paints Katherine as villan not victim, which may or may not be true depending on which non fiction authors you choose to read but for a fiction story to have her so unpleasant goes against all written opinions of her.
The most fascinating woman in Tudor history if you don't count Anne Boleyn, is Jane Rochford who hardly gets any time from the author, which is a real shame.
In the early stages of the book, Katherine and Cat barely speak two words to each other and are hardly friends yet suddenly at Court they are BFF's and sharing dangerous secrets! I did not find this particularly believable.
Henry Mannox is quite important to her downfall but he barely seems relevant with the way he was written.
Even Thomas Culpepper is just a shadow of a character who should have been much more in the story.


The plot showing Katherine lying to save herself and sending Frances Dereham to the block, and Cat betraying her to save Frances was interesting enough but it was too little too late.
There was too much useless waffle about Katherine arriving at the Dowager Duchess' house and how she changed things and who she fancied and fought with, and the boring thoughts of Cat and Jo.
It was surprisingly dull stuff considering the real Katherine's antics at this time were a huge scandal for a girl her age.
Somehow the author manages to turn the potentially exciting investigation into Katherine into something dull and lacklustre by having Frances saying 'I'm off to get questioned' and then Cat sits about all day waiting to see him then he appears and hardly says anything about what happened and off they go to bed.
Yawn! The writing was boring, repetitive and unimaginative,

The modern language used in her books seems to upset a lot of Tudor fans but it doesn't really bother me one way or another to be honest.
But I do hate the fact that she will not use the proper names for characters, preferring 'modern versions'.


If you want to read good stories about Katherine Howard I suggest you read 'The Boleyn Inheritance' by Philippa Gregory or 'The Tudor Wife' by Emily Purdy.
This will be my first and only time reading this author!

My issues:
There was no character development at all.

Even though it started off with promise I was left underwhelmed and skimming through hoping for the end to happen.

Yes Katherine Howard was a sexually promiscuous girl and perhaps simpleminded that didn't have the education of her predecessors Catherine of Aragon, her cousin Anne Boleyn, but I feel she had a loving heart but at the end of the day was just a teenager married to a man old enough to be her father.

If the author is going to write her novels set in the Tudor era Ummm, perhaps be aware of the increasing modern language terminology that wasn't existent back then lol
I was expecting the novel to be through Katherine's POV and was sorely disappointed that it was through Cat, a friend of the Queen's, who I really wouldn't call a friend in the first place, I've never seen Gossip Girl, but yeah that's what this book reminded me of.