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Withoutabox Submit to Film Festivals. All except the bitter and jealous Queen Elizabeth. Mary is more of a deep thinker, maybe because so little is expected of her. She buries anger over her disabilities, lack of future, and mockery that she endures, but every now and then it bubbles to the surface. She often thinks of her sister Jane, and wonders what she would do in order to keep herself on the right path. Together the sisters are tormented by Elizabeth, who denies them freedom, love, and any kind of real life. Watching beautiful Katherine go from being full of life and passion to a broken yet still young woman was heartbreaking.

Poor Mary is forced to continue to serve the cruel queen even as she knows that her sister is in need with nobody to help her. I enjoyed the development of the sisters and their courage to attempt a stand against the self-absorbed queen. Though I knew their story, I was captivated by Fremantle's storytelling. I have yet to read a story that makes me think anything positive about Elizabeth and wonder why so many revere her.

Mary and Katherine couldn't be more different, but both suffer for nothing more than Elizabeth's fear of their Tudor blood. A very worthwhile and satisfying read. I look forward to more great novels from this author. From early on in the book, it was clear that there was little to keep me reading. There was no plot driver or anything that made me want to finish the book. Obviously, Mary I was going to die and Elizabeth succeed her as queen.

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I should have been eager to see this happen: The author failed to create the feeling of sympathy for her characters. Take Katherine for her example, her sister has died so she From early on in the book, it was clear that there was little to keep me reading. She is more concerned with her love interest which results in even less emotional connectedness. The three protagonists of the book are very different people.

They have their own separate point of views and very far apart stories. That being said, each point of view sounded the same. The voices of the characters within the narrative are just too similar and undistinguishable from one another. I was very disappointed with this book, it felt like it was missing a key element or ingredient.

My initial expectations fell very flat. This is an author whose work I will not read again. I won this book as a giveaway, here, on goodreads. View all 4 comments. The Tudors have been written about so much in the past several years that I've found myself having a desire to bypass most of them! This novel was different in that it looked at the Grey girls who really have been omitted almost entirely from the Tudors history!

It was refreshing in a bitter sweet way to find out more about the lives of these girls that were 'cursed' with Tudor blood! Well written and easy to read, this novel gave a very good glimpse into who these girls may have been and the tu The Tudors have been written about so much in the past several years that I've found myself having a desire to bypass most of them! Well written and easy to read, this novel gave a very good glimpse into who these girls may have been and the turbulent life they led! Find this and other reviews at: I was eager to get my hands on Elizabeth Fremantle's Sisters of Treason.

I needed something I could sink my teeth into, something with a little more meat on the bone if you get my meaning. Fremantle caught my attention with Queen Gambit, but I'll be honest, I think her sophomore release stronger tha Find this and other reviews at: Fremantle caught my attention with Queen Gambit, but I'll be honest, I think her sophomore release stronger than its predecessor.

There is an urgency and weight to the story, an imperativeness to the decisions Catherine and Mary must make, a tension that captivates even those who know the history of the younger Grey girls and anticipate where the narrative is headed. Tone is not the only thing that stands out when reflecting on this piece. Jane, the traditional headliner, has a very interesting role in the narrative. She appears briefly early on, but her memory is a character in and of itself, guiding her sisters from beyond the grave.

These characters were familiar to me going in, but Fremantle's unconventional approach to their personalities and roles resulted in something both unique and memorable. Fremantle adds dimension to the story through Levina Teerlinc. A minor historical footnote, Levina is an artisan. A court-painter who exists in the privileged circles of the elite without belonging to it. Her voice balances those of her social superiors, but really liked how her story arc paralleled and played against those of Catherine and Mary.

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Richly detailed and vividly dramatic, Sisters of Treason, is a genuinely first-rate historical. Engaging, provocative and damn near impossible to put down. Made it just over pages in to be exact. There's just no narrative to this. There are 3 POVs - Katharine, a whiny self-involved girl who goes from crying over a boy to suddenly a lesbian? None of the POVs are engaging and I don't care about any of the characters. The best historical fictions find the Made it just over pages in to be exact. The best historical fictions find the story within the past and make it come alive, but this is just sadly putting me to sleep.

Jul 04, Bookish Ally rated it really liked it. I have never really looked at the Grey family - perhaps because the Grey girls lives were so tragic, and often when I go to read it is difficult to look closely upon a life in which celebrations were short and tears were frequent although at this time, pain was hidden It falls on the shoulders of the author of historical fiction to take whatever facts there are, and fill in the blanks, to make long dead women and men come to life in a way that we can understand their motives and have a richer understanding of their lives, their losses, their bitter disappointment and the sweet moments that crown them.

Speaking of crowns - royal blood did not bring happiness into any woman of history that I have ever read about, and in the case of the Grey women it was the millstone about their neck that caused their sometimes quickly sometimes slowly demise. In my opinion, Elizabeth Fremantle has done an excellent job of bringing the inner lives of the Grey girls to life, and while the interweaving of portraitist Lavinia Fontana is a bit of a stretch, it lends well to the story - both in illuminating the characters and in setting the scene of the times.

The lesson in art history was a bonus. View all 3 comments. Oct 03, Margaret rated it really liked it Shelves: Elizabeth Fremantle is by far the best historical fiction writer I have come across in years. Katherine, who was a serious contender as Elizabeth I's heir, and Mary, who suffered the curse of the Plantagenet's, scoliosis, are often ignored by historical fiction writers in favour of their cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.

Katherine and Mary are interestingly portrayed. Katherine as a woman lead by her emotions, and Mary, as one lead by her intellect.

Indeed, from what we know of Mary, she was considered as precocious a scholar as her older sister Jane and her cousin Elizabeth. Beautifully written and enthralling, Elizabeth Fremantle is a writer to watch. I've read two of her books, and am keen to get my hands on her other two all she has written - so far. Highly recommended to all lovers of historical fiction. View all 6 comments. I was awarded this book by NetGalley - the morning I got the approval email - it had been archived and I could not download it!!!

I am SO happy they did, I enjoyed this book. I really loved the I was awarded this book by NetGalley - the morning I got the approval email - it had been archived and I could not download it!!! I really loved the character that Mary was given there was not much about her written in history Elizabeth Fremantle fleshed out the people in this book so very well.

I would most certainly read another of her books. Well written, interesting in a period historical book, many characters to love. There was not as much about Queens Mary, or Elizabeth, but this was not mainly about them, more of their treatment of their cousins and how lives can be ruined by the blood relations we have.

Feb 22, Girl with her Head in a Book rated it it was ok Shelves: Katherine Grey has been having a great few years lately - just a bit unfortunate that this comes nearly five hundred years after she had a fairly unhappy life. Given that previous to around , the only reason Ladies Katherine and Mary Grey had really only clung on to the historical record as Lady Jane Grey's sisters, this is quite a weather change. Leanda De Lisle's book The Sisters Who Would Be Queen seems to have lit a spark that started a real old bonfire and so the forgotten Grey girls ar Katherine Grey has been having a great few years lately - just a bit unfortunate that this comes nearly five hundred years after she had a fairly unhappy life.

Leanda De Lisle's book The Sisters Who Would Be Queen seems to have lit a spark that started a real old bonfire and so the forgotten Grey girls are creeping out into the limelight. Alison Weir attempted to retell their story with A Dangerous Inheritance but it was all a bit I have a strong love-hate thing going with historical fiction - I love history but I hate it when people who I find interesting are written badly.

I don't actually mind if they're made into a villain but I really do feel fed up when Philippa Gregory cranks out yet another book about where the women giggle and simper and flounce about batting their eyelashes. The only way I got through The White Queen was because I had done my back in and the mental pain of reading Gregory's dreadful prose was a comparatively pleasant distraction from the physical agony of a lower back in spasm. Elizabeth Fremantle's book is nothing like as dispiriting as anything Philippa Gregory puts out but given how much I enjoyed Queen's Gambit, I had really hoped that I had finally found an author of historical fiction to admire.

It wasn't that I hated Sisters of Treason, it just left no real impression. Given that this is my third time reviewing a book about the Grey sisters, I feel slightly guilty retreading the plot of their lives. Sisters of Treason kicks off with a bang with the execution of Jane and this scene was in many ways the most successful of the novel. Jane is steeled for martyrdom and is far more composed than her mother and although it was perhaps something of a stretch to imagine a last-minute reunion before the axe fell, Fremantle engineers it in a way that is credible.

Less believable is Frances Brandon's baffling francophilia. Frances Brandon is another character who has gone through something of a personality transplant - rather than being the cold-blooded harpy who ordered her daughter to her death, over the past few years her behaviour has been re-evaluated more favourably and now she is a terribly good sort of woman who loved her daughters but was manipulated by her ambitious husband.

Quite why Fremantle chose to extend this re-evaluation by making her launch into French phrases mid-sentence was unclear. Given that she only ever used simple phrases which the average non-French-speaker could understand, it did not feel in any way natural. And every time the Grey girls referred to their mother as 'Maman', it grated.

I know that they could not exactly call her 'Mum' but Maman? As with its predecessor Queen's Gambit, Fremantle has done her research and stirred in a few extra real life people - last time it was a famous playwright and a royal physician. This time, she has summoned up portraitist Levina Teerlinc and imagined for her a connection with the Grey family. The narration of Sisters of Treason was split between Katherine, Mary and Levina but I felt that the latter could have been safely dropped. Levina's story did not catch me as much as Nicholas' did in Queen's Gambit, hers was the ancient work vs family debate that has plagued women since time immemorial but Levina's family life felt ill-defined and vague.

Other than occasional flashes, even her apparent religious principles felt out of focus. It just seemed a bit of a stretch to give credence to the notion that Levina de Teerlinc would sacrifice her family's well-being to run after the Grey girls, that she was so close to them that she was present at Jane's death, managed to smuggle herself into the Tower to visit Katherine and befriended Mary too.

My favourite Grey sister has always been Lady Mary and for me, the more effective parts of Sisters of Treason were those told in her voice. Mary Grey seems to have suffered from some form of dwarfism and had a crooked back throughout her life. It was intriguing to imagine her function for Mary Tudor; like a living doll, Mary Grey is called to sit upon the Queen's knee. She hopes to be excused from this when the Queen appears to be expecting a baby and it is with sullenness that she stumps back to her duty.

Mary is the Voice of Reason in Sisters of Treason - with her outsider's eye, as someone who looks neither to marriage or renown, she sees to the truth of those around her and this is sign-posted early on when the departing Jane leaves no word for her youngest sister becaus she says that Mary requires no advice.

But all of that does not stop Mary from having a warm heart and being a dear soul. The final section did make me want to rejoice for her. I think though that what I found disappointing was Katherine's story. It felt jumbled - first of all there is the notion that she and her first husband were sexually active. Then Fremantle introduces the idea that Katherine was actually bisexual and experimented with her future sister-in-law Jane Seymour niece of the one who was Henry VIII's third wife. All of this does rather diminish her love story with young Edward Seymour.

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Reading Katherine's love letters to her lost husband in The Sisters Who Would Be Queen, I really felt for that poor girl who had loved, loved, loved her husband and the children she had by him and had been separated from them. I felt as though Fremantle had read A Dangerous Inheritance and wanted to avoid repeating Weir'd book - she is not focussing on one of the most potentially compelling elements of her story and it just seems peculiar.

I do feel that Fremantle is a hugely talented writer and Katherine Grey's life story has all the elements of an operatic tragedy but it feels as though Fremantle herself never quite believes in Katherine and Hereford as lovers. He remained single for almost twenty years after her death - I think there can be little doubt that he loved her. Mary Grey wanted more than to simply sit on the Queen's knee. Katherine Grey wanted more than to flirt and frolic. They wanted to live, to love, to have a home, to be more than the simple sum of their family.

Mary Grey's simple plea was to be allowed to keep the tiny crumb of happiness she had found herself - but by the simple fact of their royal blood, their sovereign could take no chances. Yet, when the sovereign shows you no kindness, it is hard to resist the urge to rebel.

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Still, the final chapters felt rushed, Fremantle skips huge chunks of her heroines' lives and with this being my third book on the subject, it annoyed me even more than usual. With Queen's Gambit a hit and this is a miss, I think we shall have to call this a one-all result so far for Elizabeth Fremantle and I shall look out for her up-coming effort on Mary Queen of Scots later this year For my full review: If you happened to catch author Liz Fremantle's debut effort last year Queen's Gambit then you likely already know why historical fiction fans were thrilled to welcome her fresh voice into the genre.

Sharp, witty, and full of ironic observations, Fremantle proved she was most assuredly a far cut above the standard, ho-hum historical fiction fare usually bogging down the bookstore shelves today. Sisters of Treason returns to the Tudor era, a period one might legitimately question whether there was anything left worth writing about following the excruciating Tudor-mania that swept the genre over the past decade. Once again, Fremantle is full of delightful surprise. She alights upon the tragic Grey sisters. On July 10, , following the death of England's young and sickly King Edward VI the only son of Henry VIII , a teenaged Lady Jane Grey was unwittingly raised to the throne via the machinations of her father and father-in-law in an ill-advised power grab.

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