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Summary: A very exciting historical novel
Review: I love history. And Mary, Bloody Mary helped me learn more about her and why she grew up the way she did and why she became what she became. I am, naturally, a fan of Elizabeth I and I always thought of Mary as an evil stepsister, a Goneril or Regan. This book changed all that. I now think of Mary as an equal to Elizabeth, and a good thing, too. It took a lot to make me believe that Elizabeth I wasn't a saint, that Anne Boleyn wasn't a misused woman (well, she was, but not as much as I thought). A wonderful book for all ages.
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Summary: Wow
Review: Mary, Bloody Mary is a pretty awesome book. It's about the "life and times" of Queen Mary, aka Bloody Mary, former Queen of England. The begining is a little slow; the book doesn't get interesting until the around the fourth chapter or so. But it's a worthy read! Full of fun facts to know and tell
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I love history and this book really makes history come alive. What I really appreciate is the fact that a family tree is included, so you can keep the wives and their offspring straight. Definitely a page turner!
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Summary: Mary, Bloody Mary
Review: Mary Bloody Mary was a awsome book, and a great novel and bioghraphy. I couldn't stop reading it, it was so good. I highly recoeommd this great book to you, this is also a great present for kids that are good readers and love history.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I really liked this book a lot and would definately reccomend it to others. I read it in a matter of a few hours and I could not put it down. I have even started to read it again to really understand it. It was a bit confusing at times, and so interesting I didn't want to stop reading to actually think about it. Describing the childhood of Mary Tudor, this book helped me realize why Mary was such a harsh queen. After reading the Dear America "Red Rose of the House of Tudor" from Elizabeth's point of view, I despised Mary, thinking her to be evil. But Mary's point of view totally changed my perspective. I would reccomend this book to anyone who is interested in history or this specific time period or family, or anyone who justs wants a good book to read. It is probably one of the best I have ever read.
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Summary: How I came to write Mary, Bloody Mary
Review: Imagine meeting you on Amazon.com! Thanks for clicking.Do you love history or hate it? When I was a kid, I thought history was colossally boring--too much about dates and battles and kings and agreements made and broken. But then I finally got it: history is the story of real people who lived fascinating lives. I already knew that writing is the thing I do best. Next I discovered that I really enjoy doing research (which is like playing detective, plus it helps to be nosy). The question "What was it like?" is what fuels my imagination. Consider Henry VIII, for instance, the bold and brilliant king of England, notorious for having six wives: Two of them he divorced, two he had beheaded, one died, and Number Six survived him. So what was it like to be Henry's daughter Mary, who watched all those wives come and go, often fearing for her own life? I did the research--read a lot of books about life in England at the time of King Henry and his wives and children--and then I wrote the novel. Why Mary? Because her story broke my heart.
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Summary: Highly reccomended!
Review: I highly reccomend this excellant novel. Young Mary Tudor narrates the story of her difficult childhood. The first few years of her life were filled with every privilage imaginable - until her father had an affair with the bewitching Anne Boleyn and tossed aside his first wife, Mary's mother, forbidding her to ever see her again. When at last Mary is allowed to live in the palace again, it is as her infant half-sister Elizabeth's servant. This is a powerful moving novel about a young girl who faces so much loss and tragedy in her life - seperated from her mother, stripped of her title, turned into a servant - that it's no wonder she grew up to become the person she became.
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Summary: The Other Side of the Story
Review: This is a first-person account of "Bloody Mary", Queen Elizabeth I's older half-sister. "Mary, Bloody Mary" is fun to read and very well-written. I especially like the parts when she is excluded from her father's love. It really makes you feel for Mary - especially because it's all true! Although I have always disliked Mary for her cruelty to Elizabeth, this book gave a sympathetic look at how Anne Boleyn (and eventually Elizabeth) took away Mary's rights. While I was reading this book I, too, started to feel sorry for Mary, but it ended too soon for me to really feel sorry for her. And the epilogue reminded me that no matter how rotten a deal Mary got because of Anne Boleyn, she had no right to be so mean to Elizabeth (and the countless other people she murdered - hence "Bloody Mary").
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Summary: A novel to remember.
Review: Ah, history! My favorite subject, and an intriguing thing. Mary has been brought to life, both her worried, youthful side, and her detremined and stubborn side, the part of her that made her known as Mary, Bloody Mary, England's queen. This story, taking place in her youth, is well decribed with utmost accuracy. Depicting the eventful life of Mary Tudor, you will plummet into the sixteenth century, and into the heart of a princess. When I picked this book up, I wondered if it would be like a fairy tale, saying how wonderful and fruitful Mary's life was, and I was surprised when I read the story. Instead of boring literature, it shows the real life of Mary, her feelings about her father, his new wife, and Mary's own half sister, and how confused on the inside she is, but how brave she trys to act. Showing how a young girl is forced into womanhood, this is a novel to remember.
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Summary: Mary Bloody Mary Best Book Ever
Review: Mary is a princess who is growing up with any thing she wants. She is used to having the the most beautifull jewls dresses and the most lavish parties. Then her life takes a turn for the worst. She is banished by her father, king Henry VIII,to live a life cold, lonely, without money apart from her beloved mother. Soon her father anounces that he is to marry an evil woman. And Mary is called back to the palace to serve her father and step mother in rags not to mention she has a new baby sister, the new princess and in her father's eyes the only princess.
QUOTES
"No good will come will come of your tears".
The Queen, her mother, is saying this to Mary and this shows that she is strong and she will not allow Mary to be weak
CHARACTERS
Mary Tudor she is a princess of king Henry the VIII
King Henry VIII, he is Mary's father and he is corrupted by Lady Ann
Lady Ann, she maries the king
SETTING
England during the time of King Henry VIII.
I loved how the author Carolyn Meyer describes how life was back then. I like how descriptive the book is one can almost imagine what their life was like.
I loved this book and I recomend this book to any one who loves historical novels especially stories of young royals.
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