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fideidefenswhore · 2 years ago

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i couldn’t remember how the first chapter opened so i reread (i mean...it’s been like over a decade, but it is a reread) w/eir’s the lady elizabeth and i think the funniest thing about it is that it’s not compatible with her six wives fictional series, and is thus, as i guess this is generally put...not in the same ‘universe’?

#like it's not even so much that oh this is from elizabeth's pov ; of course there will be things she doesn't see or remember #but that the plot points are very different. when she first sees her first stepmother is different #also i'm going to go ahead and say something real controversial: her prose got worse #like comparatively #her six wives books don't even really feel like prose #there are no long descriptive paragraphs; actually no long paragraphs; really?#not even medium length ones #they're all very clipped and short dialogue snippets and basically entirely aped from her own nonfiction #also i think TLE (i know it gets horrible with elizabeth's teenage stuff so. don't @ me. im not praising that)#is much better for having been; while mainly from elizabeth's POV; from multiple perspectives #like we see mary's here too #and it just balances it out nicely...i think the six wives books being not only close third person but ONLY from their perspective gave #them such a myopic feel...i honestly don't quite understand how they're bestsellers beyond the name recognition and #draw/appeal of the subject matter and the ever sellable appeal of these women as a 'set'#like babushka dolls #but anyway it's such a stupid model. multiple perspectives in one novel is always better #it's quite obviously about quantity not quality #now we will have henry's only soon and then mary's only.......uggggggggggggh not this #*myopic and narrow #edit: it's the part that is elizabeth's childhood that really shines #it sort of falls away after that #i did read the rest but decidedly skipped some parts #i guess weir's primary interest is always henry viii's reign so ...back to the roots i see

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