A review by pearl35
The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory

3.0

Gregory may be eking the most books ever out of a single area of research--she has so far told the same stretch of story from the perspective of Jaquetta of Luxembourg, Margaret Beaufort Stanley, Elizabeth Woodville and now Anne Neville, with the next one moving slightly further to the Tudors for Elizabeth of York. This is kind of fun--she sides wholeheartedly with whoever she is focusing on, even to the demonization of the heroine of her previous book. In this case, she works hard to give personal agency to Richard III's queen Anne, who usually languishes as a victim or just a silent medieval woman without much documentation. I think she goes off too far into ridiculousness with Elizabeth Woodville as a witch, and Richard III having a thing going with his niece, but as partisan rumors go, it isn't any wilder than a hunchback and ghosts.