The Queen's Fool

The Queen's Fool

I loved this book. My favorite Gregory novel is The Other Boleyn Girl, and this comes a close second.
Other reviewers have criticized the author for her portrayals of Mary and Elizabeth in this book, but everyone needs to keep in mind that we are viewing these women through Hannah's eyes, and this is fiction, not a historical textbook.
Hannah is a very likeable character, who struggles throughout the book to come to terms with her gift of sight, her religious faith and her place in the world as a woman.
In this book, as in The Other Boleyn Girl, it's the slow-building, passionate love story that touches me the most. The love story of Hannah and Daniel is very well-written and is my favorite part of the book. It is easy to see what draws them to each other and what keeps them apart. Though the road is bumpy, I was very pleased with the ending.
My only complaint would be that I thought the book ended a few pages too soon. (In fact, I would love to see a sequel about the next chapter in Hannah's life.) After everything Hannah went through to discover what she truly wanted, and after everything she went through to get it, I would have liked to see a more passionate ending and a little more assurance that Hannah's future would be as happy as I wanted it to be.

7 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

Loved!!!

The book was great. I always enjoy Gregory's books in the Tudor family. I felt the story dragged on a little at times.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Loved this book

I love the fact that you learn history while reading Philippa's books. I'm sure like many, I stop and google and research while I go along. It's fascinating. The only part that stumped me was Mary's first pregnancy. I have since researched and learned that she had convinced her body that she was pregnant. Reading the book, I was intrigued and freaked out that her baby had died in the wound at 9 months and that she continued to carry the dead child for so long after. Now I know, it was all imagined. I also didn't know court fools existed. People have complained about the way Elizabeth was portrayed. I think she was very smart and did what she had to do to survive. I just ordered "The Virgin Queen" can't wait.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Another winner

Phillippa Gregory does a wonderful job with historical fiction. Most of the charactors are real historical figures and she does a good job of combining fact with fiction, weaving a wonderful, believable story around these charactors.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

The Queens Fool

The Queen's Fool is yet another beautifully written novel by Philippa Gregory. It is written from the perspective of the great Queen Mary's "holy fool", Hannah, who gives us a feeling of finally knowing a commoner, someone who can give us some insight as to how the people of England were living outside of the royal court. This is not the most exciting book in the series, but is very important as far as giving detailed background information on characters who become the focus of the next book The Virgin's Lover. If you've read and enjoyed any other novels from Philippa Gregory's Tudor series this is a MUST read!!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Another winner

Phillipa Gregory is fast becoming one of my favorite authors. Her ability to blend fiction with factual characters is a pleasure to read. Great story, a real page turner.

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Gregory posses the rare ability to blend fiction and history tog

Gregory posses the rare ability to blend fiction and history together to create an intelligent, captivating story. She creates personable, realistic characters from the pages of hisotry books. She reminds readers that history is a collection of rich stories, not a series of drab dates.

The Queen's Fool was no exception. Gregory created a quality story that was able to stand on its own, for the most part, without relying solely on Queen Mary's tale. It was interesting to revisit the story of Mary and Elizabeth as a fly on the walI. Hannah Green, the Queen's fool of the title, is a stong, well-crafted character. She stands on her own as an intelligent, strong woman in a time when women were treated like children.

I would recommend this book to anyone looking for an intelligent page-turner.

This book is so good omg

So it very good book about little fairy that are about to get her emnew wings and cant help look for themm kbecause the meaan foxtook it so just read it and hen look undr your pillow an and hen look at your pillow andlook around yoyr house and there will be a flat screen tv trust me oe not bu i thibk thst you hould ty it i would trust yu boy this is a good book

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bought this book expecting the same interest with other boleyn g

bought this book expecting the same interest with other boleyn girl (5 star from me).
unfortunately been dragging myslelf to finish it. the long and slow and unimportant plot can be shorten.

As always with Phillipa Gregory's books.. It was exceptional.. I

As always with Phillipa Gregory's books.. It was exceptional.. I was sorry to see it end. The author takes you on a believable journey back to the middle ages.. Don't pass this one up.. It thoroughly enjoyable. Definitely a page turner!

Interesting but hard to understand

good story line of a young Jewish girl hiding during religious persecution. the main character is trying to survive and become the type of person she wants to be in a oppressive time. good read but takes time to understand

Phillippa does a great job again

Great

Slow reading

Maybe I would have rated it higher if I hadn't read "The other Boleyn girl" first. It just fell flat.

I DIDN'T WANT IT TO END

I've read "The Constant Princess", "The Other Boleyn Girl", "The Boleyn Inheritance", and this book. I loved it I didn't want the book to end. I loved Hannah and everything about the book. It was great. I recommend reading all the previous books I named before jumping into this one. Now I'm ready to read "The Virgin's Lover". Philippa is an amazing author and I never thought I would be so into historic fiction books.

R Fun to read

I could not put it down

Wonderful Read

Loved ut

Gregory is masterful storyteller!

As usual, Gregory crafts addictive and intricate historical accounts of life in the Tudor period. Another well written story....cant wait for the next.

Wonderful

Couldn't put it down

Loved this book one of my favorites

Recommended

Entertaining historical fiction. Enough said.