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Summary: Wonderful book!
Review: I really reccommend this book..especially to girls from ages 11-18, perhaps! It was really a great book! If you like historical fiction, then read this. It's about Queen Mary, otherwise known as Bloody Mary...this shows how her childhood was...and it is extremely interesting!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is a great book if you wnat to learn about history. It made you fell sorry for Mary. I always thought of Mary as a terrible person. (Even though she did turn out to be). But the way that her father treated her was very bad. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to sit down and read a good book.
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Summary: I was taken aback and fully insulted by this book!
Review: If I could have put up zero stars, I would have. This book is a clear attempt to sway our kids into imagining that the Roman Catholic Church correctly "burned at the stake" the heretic Protestants who disagreed with them. To wit (young Mary thinking out loud in this ficticious scene on page 216): "In the gloomy silence of the chapel, I thought I heard awhisper, a murmur, as if the figure on the cross were speaking to me. I peered up at the face of Jesus, but my sight was too weak to make it out clearly. Yet the voice was distinct: 'You must live, Mary,' the voice said, 'for one day you shall be queen. You shall bring the curch corrupted by the king (Henry the VIII) back to the True Church of Christ in Rome. Now go in peace.'" Are we to seriously consider that God Almighty was using the likes of "Bloody Mary", the most persecuting queen in England, as His "instument" to bring about the "conversion of England" in this segment of Europe's dark history? Give me a break. RoS
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Summary: A view from the window of a castle and another from a prison
Review: History belongs to writers. Mankind has always seen history through the eyes and the imagination of those with the pen. Limited facts are expanded and massaged by those who write, thence somehow become truth. Books, movies, television, develop the belief of reality for those who read. Societies without a written work can, and does, relate their history as they "want" it to be. The american indian lore, and that of most of Africa, grows real through the telling and imagination of the story teller. Reality is probably another matter, so history does belong to the writer.
Carolyn Meyer has taken the skeletal facts and woven wonderful story from much of her own imagination, telling the story through the eyes of a very young girl, born a princess, in sixteenth century England. This young princess sweeps through the magnificent highs of the utmost luxury of the time to the lowest station of a threatened servant. The social standards of the time placed the ultimate power in the hands of the highest royalty. Mary Tudor was caught within that system. Her mother was pushed aside through a selfish and unlawful divorce (unlawful according to the church) leaving Mary Tudor officially a "bastard" and stripped of all royal privilege. Her subsequent roller-coaster life, from the imprisonment of the tower to the throne of England, Is the story that Carolyn Meyer has told so well and beautifully.
Certain personalities, or masks, are assigned to the major players in this story. This establishes the time and place, the voice, by which the author relates her version of reality. The basis for this story is framed by historical fact and decorated by the history of "writers" as is always the case of historical fiction. Believe what you will, but realize much of what you read here is a product of a series of writers' imagination and belief.
This book is among the best and most enjoyable, superbly written, accounts of the reign of Henry VIII, and the immediate years following. Well worth reading and enjoying, but don't lose sight of the genre-historical FICTION.
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Summary: This was a great book
Review: I LOVED this book. It was Historical and different.
Poor Mary, her father once loved her and she was so happy until King Henry,her father, decided he was tired of her mother,Catherine of Aragon. He fancied another woman, whom the court,including Mary, utterly despiced. But Henry was in love, for now with Anne, A noble. He made Catherine of Aragon leave the Palace and live in ashack of a castle. Mary was devistated.She wasn't even allowed to write. MAry was soon forgotten when Elizabeth is born and then,well,you buy it and figure it out...
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Summary: Mary, Bloody Mary
Review: This is a great book, and I recomend it to anyone who loves historical fiction. Mary is a happy young princess who always has her father, Henry the 8th's attention, until one day misstress Anne Bolyn enters the life of the king. Mary is convinced Anne is bewitching her father, but there is nothing she can do about it, and the king is slowly changing. So, gradually, Marys life deteriorates as "Lady Anne" fights to have her way. King Henry marries Anne, Mary is declared a bastard and exiled, then she is sentenced to be the servant of her new stepsister, Elizaeth the 1st. And, as if life cannot get any worse, she fears the poisoning of her, and her mother, Queen Catherine. Soon, Anne is accused of adultery, and beheaded. As life starts to turn for the better, Queen Catherine dies, and promises that someday, Mary will be queen of England.
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Summary: A different point of view
Review: I'm 15 and I've always been somewhat interested in history, especially the lives of the Tudor family. The young adult historical fiction I've read about the royal family has always sympathized with Elizabeth, Mary's younger sister. Those books talked about how Elizabeth had a traumatized life and how her sister was so mean and cruel to her. In this book, you get a completely different side to the story and find out the truth behind "Bloody Mary." It sounds like to me that her life was as equally hard or harder than Elizabeth's. I'm glad that I could see the story of this family from another perspective.
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Summary: Mary, bloody Mary
Review: This book called Mary Bloody Mary is kind of a sad book about a girl named Mary Tudor. Mary is a beautiful princess, who once had a loving king who loves her so much since she was a child. The king is called Henry, King Henry VIII. But until when the king had met another woman and to marry her. The woman is called Anne; now Mary is the child of King Henry and her stepmother Anne. The king abonded Mary's mother when having another woman. But once the king had been more colder, he had made Mary to live outside of the palace and to not see her loving mom anymore. Mary was forced to dressed in dirty and ugly dress. Now Mary would want reverge with her stepmother, what would she do... This book had been an exciting and interesting book. It had been really sad for Mary for what she had been through. It is really harsh to force you own child to live in a cold and miserable life. The worst thing with Mary was that she can't even see her own mother. I just can't believe that the King would do such a thing to his daughter and wife.
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Summary: Mary, Bloody Mary
Review: I liked the book because it was full of action and the the author was so great at writing this book, she is a wonderful writer.
This is my opioin but I thought the best part of the book was at the end when everything was happening it was an action packed end with Mary becoming happy, but they said she was nice but she wasn't that's why she was know as bloody Mary.
The most vivad part of the book was at the climax I didn't
understand it. This book had some volger language.
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Summary: Mary,Bloody Mary
Review: I generally enjoy books on Mary Tudor's younger sister Elizabeth, but after reading this book I found myself torn between the two. Mary went through quite a bit as a child and I understand why she did the things she did when she grew up (even though they were still unexceptable to society). An excellent book!
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