"Nan, child, don’t stand toute égarée in the garden. Nan! Come and answer your father’s letter. Nan! Nan! Come in and be fitted for your new dresses to go to Court! Throwing aside security and favor, she made the reckless surrender which could have kept her sweet."Fortunately, passages like that are not that common, and mainly confined to the first half of the book. In Percy's arms that night Anne lived the brief rich transport of her life. Metamorphosed by love, she knew it to be no longer something evil - some snare, some super-abundant force to be feared - but something natural, sane and good. Crushed against her lover's heart, all the long disciplined desire in her rose to its consummation. It burned away all the cruelty and bitterness, running over in a measure of human kindness that made the world a lovely place. For example: "Love like this was a rebirth. I particularly thought the way her relationship with her brother was portrayed, as well as the way Anne was able to subtly alienate King Henry against Cardinal Wolsey, was fine.That doesn't keep the book from the reading like a Harlequin romance at times. This is a decent enough Boleyn novel, telling the standard story of Anne's early days at court, the love affair with Harry Percy, her rise and her fall.
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