I really enjoyed this book until the last 50 pages or so. I became interested in Anne Neville after reading other Philippa Gregory novels and watching television adaptations. Last year I read a biography about Anne.
This book begins when Anne is 11 and she is presented to the Edward IV's new queen, Elizabeth Woodville. Their marriage is an embarrassment and an affront to Anne's father, the Earl of Warwick who was negotiating a marriage between Edward and a French princess.
Gregory captures the thoughts of a young girl as she plays as queen with her sister Isabel and calls Margaret of Anjou and Henry VI as the bad queen and sleeping king.
But Anne has to grow up fast when her father decides to support another candidate as king and uses Anne and Isabel as his tools to make new alliances.
I disliked the emphasis on witchcraft especially at the end of the novel. Even after she is crowned queen to Richard III, Anne is haunted by fear of Elizabeth Woodville's curses.
I still enjoyed this book.
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