Sunday, April 20, 2014

Chapters 1-3 Le Temps Viendra: After reading the prologue, I knew that I was going to enjoy reading this book. Even though the book is fiction, considering I prefer non-fiction
books, the characters are real and Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII are two very important people in Tudor History. From the beginning of the you can tell the author, Sarah Morris, is has a deep passion for all things Ann Boleyn. It was kind of  hard to wrap my head around the whole time travel thing, but it made for good fiction. One thing is obvious about the King Henry; He switched up women quite often. Mary did not seem to mind Anne's relationship with the King.
Chp. 2 Even though we only have letters from the King to Anne, Sarah Morris does a beautiful job of recreating what must have been a strong attraction in between Anne and the King. The King fueled by lust and Anne for her desire to have a better life and power. The reason for divorcing Katherine, that he came up with while thinking about Anne's breast, did not make sense to me at all. Towards the end of the chapter she gets very deep about what would later happen between Anne's mother and father. That must have been very difficult for them. Life is stranger than fiction, one minute your daughter is the Queen of England, the next she is being beheaded.
Chp. 3 The thing that stood out the most to me most to me was the issue of  having a male child for the King. Her mother had every right to be concerned considering how he was about to do Katherine. Then her friend Thomas Wyatt also brought the matter up, while professing his love for Anne at the same time. Henry did not sound so reassuring when Anne asked him about it on the roof.    

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