Would recommend: Maybe

The Other Boleyn Girl was a really captivating novel, but I am more compelled to read a nonfiction account of the Boleyn family than recommend it. The history is really fascinating on its own, but I kept getting distracted by wondering what was true and what was fictional. I'm sure the more lascivious aspects of the narrative help to make this book a bestseller, but it only made me sad for the female characters. Maybe that was the point.

I wasn't planning on seeing the movie version before I read the book, and those plans are now confirmed.