Her Mother’s Daughter
Julianne LeeHistorical romance
Available from Berkley Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-425-23008-4
December 2009
| Mary Tudor is the daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. She is also half-sister to Edward VI and Elizabeth I. Mary lives, during a time, when divorce for men is considered evil and the husband doesn’t wish to renege on his responsibilities to the wife. Mary always admired her father because he went by God’s law when it came to his marriage then everything changed in her life. She suddenly hears him refer to her mother as a whore and wishes to have the marriage annulled. Something inside her freezes and she cannot believe what she hears. Surely, this is not coming from her father, not King Henry VIII, who claimed to have loved her and her mother. If her father has his way, and the marriage is annulled, then Mary will be declared illegitimate and no longer be a princess. With everything weighing on Mary’s mind, she wonders is there anything she can do.
What a well-written tale. Her Mother’s Daughter is filled with so much information, and researched very intensively. When Mary learned she might no longer be a princess, I could almost feel the agony reflected in her voice when she wonders what will happen to her. I can tell Julianne Lee put her heart and soul into the making of this book. She allows the reader to almost get the sensations that run through Mary with the onset of her parent’s battle with their divorce; her temper that flares almost like her fathers, as well as the way she has to go about choosing a husband. I know that Mary Tudor was a real person as well as Henry VIII, but Ms. Lee really expresses a tale that made this reader honestly connect with the characters. Her way of storytelling was quite unique.
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Reviewer: Linda L. |
