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The Virgin's Lover (Boleyn)
by Philippa Gregory

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Author: Philippa Gregory
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-30
ISBN: 0743269268
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Touchstone
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Book Review: A great disappointment!
Summary: 2 Stars

After finishing the book "The Queen's Fool", I am so looking forward to the release of "The Virgin's Lover". I am so eager to know what is going to happen for Queen Elizabeth and Lord Robert Dudley (Earl of Leicester) in the hand of Philippa Gregory. It is a well known story and written by many well known and best selling authors before. It is certainly not my first book of Queen Elizabeth I, but I believe that it is still worth to buy as Philippa Gregory did such an excellent work in "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "The Queen's Fool".

After finishing the first half of the book, I have to say that it is a great disappointment to me. First of all, most of the pages are actually talking about Cecil, the State of Secretary rather than Elizabeth or Lord Robert. Further, when the author is telling a story that we all know, I believe that she needs to pay more effort on the details. I feel bored to carry on reading when it is nothing much but some simple truth that we can find out in any history textbook. It is supposed to be a story full of ups and downs, excitment and emotion. But in this book, we can find nothing much but a boring read.

In the second half of the book, it is more focus on the relationship between Elizabeth and Robert as well as the murder of Lady Dudley. The murder of Lady Dudley is still remained a mystery nowadays. In this book, the author believed that it is a plot made by Cecil and Elizabeth herself. I have to say that it is a big contradition itself. Elizabeth is madly in love with Robert, even though she won't risk her throne by marring him (a bad blood with no treasury and supporters), it is highly unlikely for her to plot against him. She knows that the murder of Lady Dudley will ruin his reputation or even his life. On the other hand, it will also ruin her reputation or even her throne. In this book, Elizabeth is willing to risk her lover's reputation or even life in order to get rid of his plan or wish of marring her. The reason is that she can't refuse him in person, so she has no choice but plot against him in hidden. I find it ridiculous and illogical.

This book is ended after the verdict of Lady Dudley's murder. If you believe the story told by Philippa Gregory, then you will certainly hate the heroin, Elizabeth. How can a woman be so wicked to ruin her lover by murdering his wife. The reason is not to set him free in order to marry her, but to get rid of him.

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