I just finished "The Lady of the Rivers" by Philippa Gregory. I did enjoy reading it, but it was not my favorite Gregory book. I had a harder time getting through some of it than usual-although that could be due to my circumstances and not because of the writing. I had a month of kids being sick and that made reading for pleasure hard.
Anyway this book was interesting because it's main character (Jacquetta Woodville) is a woman is a constant figure in the War of the Roses. She was the Lancaster Queen's head lady in her court, the mother of the York Queen, and the grandmother of the Tudor Queen when Henry Tudor takes the throne back from York. She is Queen Elizabeth I's great great grandmother. Gregory really made her come alive and her novels "The White Queen," "The Red Queen," and "The Lady of the Rivers" have made me a lot more interested in the War of the Roses and that time period just before the Tudors.
So to sum up...fun read, but it did drag in the middle a bit. Overall I'd recommend it to others.
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