There, Catherine Howard rules-not as the prettiest, or the smartest, but simply as Queen of Misrule because she says so, and in true mean-girl fashion, everyone else falls to the power of her spell.Īnd it's there, in the late night secret meetings of young men and young women, in the giddy silliness of youth and flirtation, that the secrets that bring one of England's greatest monarchs to send his fifth wife to death are sown (and sewn, as it were).īut secrets are nothing without someone to keep them, and Kitty does that. Kitty-along with the rest of the girls in the dowager Duchess of Norfolk's household-have been virtually abandoned by their families, sent to "betterment" when they really mean oblivion. Silly and young, desperate and immature, the cousin of Anne Boleyn, the queen that changed every rule-including those that put a queen beyond suspicion, beyond treason, beyond guilt.īut I didn't know about Kitty Tylney, the queen's best friend-the Kitty to her Cat. I knew how the story would end I knew all about the story Catherine Howard. Gilt was my guilty pleasure and I’m glad I had a chance to read it.
Sometimes a book is great not because it’s the best in its genre but just because it was right for you at the right time. If you’ve never read a historical fiction novel, or you’ve always been intimidated by the language used in historical fiction, this book might be the perfect book for you to break into an entirely new genre. And just like my favorite pizza, I consumed this book. Gilt may not be the perfect book to represent the historical era portrayed in the book, but it was the perfect book for me at the right time. Some of the characters lived in our history books but I do not know if they were accurately represented in this book (nor do I care). Why? The book is full of modern language even though the setting is far from modern. Do I feel guilty for liking it this much? Maybe just a tad bit. It is the lazy person’s historical fiction but in the end, it is just as good as the real thing.
Whenever I want to be lazy (which is often), and not take the time to get out the ingredients, slice and dice, and cook dinner, I get this wonderful pizza from down the street. I know this is weird (and when have I not been weird) but it reminded me of my favorite pizza.
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