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I was excited to jump into this book as I love Tudor history and anything to do with the Six queens. Having toured London this winter, I eagerly started reading, only to be more and more disappointed the further I read. To be fair, Laine is a competent writer and had a decent fictional plot, but the historical pieces for accuracy are hit or miss. The main characters, Catherine of Aragon (called Lina in the novel) and Anne Boleyn, are not like the queens I've researched or read about. Laine portrays them as almost 2026 versions in their speech, thoughts and actions. And while, I am sure women of that time were smart, competent and frustrated, Catherine and Anne are angry, vengeful, and in some cases violent. The original love story between Henry and Catherine is gone. Catherine's devotion to her Catholic faith is gone..she in fact embraces witchcraft and revenge without much discussion. Probably the toughest thing to understand is that Catherine and Anne become best friends within days. Throw in a Queen/lady in waiting lesbian love affair, a trans prison guard, and a Dicken's Sydney Carlton moment without any of the build-up, thankfully he  didn't say "It is a far, far better thing that I do…."  and you have a lot of great ideas with no real substance in under 400 pages.