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Title: Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book (Young Royals)
ISBN: 0152050868
Author:
Carolyn Meyer
Publicate Date: 2004-05-01
Publish: 2004-05-01
List Price: $6.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Royal Praise for Doomed Queen Anne
Royal Praise for Doomed Queen Anne
The trite love story of a princess meeting her true prince is not as glamorous as it may seem. Usually, during the 16th century in England, love in a monarchy was significantly complex. Queen Anne, however, showed that with an ambitious attitude, one can achieve anything, even marrying a king. At the young age of 13, Anne declared her future that she will become the queen, which came true. The end of her story as wife to Henry VIII, however, did not conclude as a fantasy tale. Through her tale, author Carolyn Meyer writes with intense emotion in a first person point of view that draws in the readers to the dramatic, interesting, and adventurous rise and fall of Anne Boleyn.
Meyers employs an appealing style that grabs the audience. Her text is mostly informal and simple to simulate the story as a normal conversation or that a story is being casually told. Emotions and Anne's consciousness all play the part, such as when Anne is still engaged in a hot pursuit to marry King Henry: "I lay awake tormented by doubt: Why does he not simply declare himself the head of the Church, dissolve his marriage to Catherine, and marry me- before it's too late? Does he love me ENOUGH?" (Meyers 162-163). She also italicizes words to emphasize Anne's thoughts or emotions, for instance when Anne began to notice King Henry's eyes looking at her: "Time and again the King's roving glance halted and lingered upon me. What can he be thinking?" (Meyers 73). Since the readers become entranced with Anne herself, the plot also develops into a spell-binding story.
The plot that begins with Anne in her pre-teen years to her final death allows the audience to become fully involved in an adventure that so happens to be her life. Despite the change in time, Anne's obsession to lose her stereotype as the "odd" one and a bad reputation remained constant. Ever since youth, here long, black hair, black eyes, and dark clothes made her regarded as a "witch." Her disgraceful relationship with Lord Hal, and a secret marriage, almost ruined her chances of ever catching the king's eyes. Yet, the readers could see that Anne's ambition did not fail her when she was banished from court and told never to see Lord Hal again: "When I was drained of tears, my heart filled with bitterness. Someday I shall have my revenge" (Meyer 61). She eventually proved her family and the nosey ears of the court when she caught the kings heart and eventually manipulated him into having her as his wife, instead of a temporary mistress similar to most of his lovers. This ultimate shocker and revenge made everyone aware that Anne is not the average person but also proved to the readers that her ambition made her win. Once she became queen, one can imagine the sounds of "OHHHHH!!!!" that usually high-schoolers yell out when someone is "burned," in slang terms. Later, unfortunately, Anne's cause for her rise doomed her into her fall because once she couldn't give birth to a son, the tables turned on her. King Henry VIII became influenced to think that she was a which that put a spell on him and that she was having an affair with a musician. Eventually, Anne was beheaded, causing a sense of "wow" at the end.
The journey of Anne's obsession to make the king fall in love with her proved to be hectic and mind-blowing. The connection to the readers permitted the audience to become considerably engaged in her wild ambition. Carolyn Meyers successfully told Anne Boleyn's tale with a technique and plot to capture everyone. Doomed Queen Anne is not the common fairytale princess story, which is why this book is strongly recommended for anyone desiring for a ride.
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2: My review of doomed Queen Anne
Anne Boylen was determined to get to the top, Henry the 8th's wife. Anne, with her dark black hair and jet blck eyes would draw in men. She had always admired the king, but Henry was already married with a daughter and a misstress. She had always been jealous of her sister with her long lovely blonde hair and blue eyes and being the king's mistress. But when her sister(mary) had gotten married and had a child, it was her turn to be the king's lover.
This was an exellent book, and I think everybody would enjoy it. the end was kind of sad but still I loved the whole story!
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3: Doomed Queen Anne
If you are into semi-romance novels, "Doomed Queen Anne" is the book for you. Anne is a townsperson in the beginning. She juggles around a few relationships, and then sets her goals high. She wants to marry the king. She refuses to be his misstress she wants to be queen. But when she does become queen, she gets framed for treason against the king. In the end, she gets executed, and leaves her daughter, Elizebeth, out of her hands.
This is an awesome semi-romance novel as I said before. In the beginning, it was a bit confusing, but you'll catch on. This book wont let you put it down!
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4: Amazing Queen Anne
I think that the book, Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer, is a wonderful and amazing book. Doomed Queen Anne is about a teenage girl with some really big dreams. She starts out trying to be better than her older sister, Mary, but ends up getting more than what she ever dreamed of having. Will she ever get the biggest of her dreams? Will live a wonderful life?
-A.N.
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5: Great to have for Medieval Unit study
We read this book aloud for our homeschool unit study. There are some graphic details that I can't see why they didn't leave out but is really good from historic point of view.
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