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Title: The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory, Claire Zion ISBN: 0-671-79274-1 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: November, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Awful
Comment: A friend told me Gregory's work was good historical fiction but it is not!
This is just a Jackie Collins novel set in medieval England. Not only that, the "wise woman" is obviously based on a curious mix of traditional stereotypes of a witch and new-age info. Why go into details about the clothing and food and then appear to get your occult information from a Dennis Wheatley novel?
Not one of the characters is either interesting or likable. Worse still, you don't even hate them, you just end up not caring.
Rating: 5
Summary: A selfish, lying, unfaithful, scheming, ambitious 16 yr old!
Comment: I loved this book. What a real character, full of flaws. What a pretty 16 year old nun who suddenly finds herself in the real world in the time of Henry VIII might actually do. Not mature enough to make good decisions, selfish and wicked enough to wish people harm and definitely immature enough to not realize that there is a reaction to every action. Well done. I have waited a year of reading two books a month to find a book like this! Thank you Ms. Gregory for the tale of a central character so full and rich I stayed up all night reading to finish it.
Rating: 5
Summary: not so smart for a wise woman
Comment: This is a brilliant dark story of a young girl and her quest to live like a queen. She wants the prize of 'lady of the house' and will stop at nothing to get it. She uses her power to reach for her dreams, only to realise that the prize wasn't hers. She is a false woman, and slowly becomes entrapped in her own lies.
Despite the bleakness of the story and the wickedness of Alys, I still liked her! She felt she was destined for an important role, and went out to claim it. She sought love and didn't know what to do with it when she had it. As l was approaching the last few pages of the story I was wondering how on earth it could end, I was so looking forward to the birth of her child etc.
I am currently making my way through all of Philippa Gregory's books. Her novels, both historical and comtemporay are always so vivid and the endings never fail to be anything but thought provoking. Keep writing, because l will certainly keep reading!
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Title: Earthly Joys by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0312192622 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0061094331 Publisher: Harper Mass Market Paperbacks Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Favored Child : A Novel by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0743249305 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Meridon by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0743249313 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0006511767 Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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