The Cousins' War

I recently finished the Cousin’s War series by Phillipa Gregory.  Now – full disclosure, this is not my normal genre.  I’m mostly a YA reader.  The same bad teen-aged luck that keeps horror movies in theaters is what keeps me coming back to YA books.  If the world is trying its very best to come to an end – so much the better.  The Cousins’ War series is a complete departure from that.

Queen Elizabeth was not only a real person, but my great, great, great (don’t know how many greats to throw in here) grandmother.  We trace our lineage through one of her daughters, though not the one who became a Tudor queen.  I love this time period, so when the White Queen series started playing this fall, I couldn’t help but start watching it.  Waiting a week for each installment was simply too aggravating, and I moved on to reading the books, burning through the series before the TV version of the White Queen had even finished.

I burned through all five books in less than a month.  They are well written, with a compelling historical fiction storyline.  They were so good, the Boleyn Series is on my radar for the Christmas break.  If you have the time, this is a series definitely worth the read.