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title: "The Wise Woman: A Novel (Historical Novels)"
brand: "philippa gregory"
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# The Wise Woman: A Novel (Historical Novels)

**Brand:** philippa gregory
**Price:** ¥6654
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- **What is this?** The Wise Woman: A Novel (Historical Novels) by philippa gregory
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## Customer Reviews

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    What the heck did I just read? or, The Story of "Everything Sucks and Everyone is Awful and It Never Gets Better"
  

*by K***K on Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2017*

I loved her other books, so gave this a try...and now I want those hours back (yes, I held on to the bitter, confusing end). This reads like an author's experiment: what if I wrote a book where every character was awful without one redeeming quality, threw in some random horror elements, dashed in some hate!porn + plenty of rape, and had the heroine throw her head back, wildly laughing, until the readers feared/cheered the possibility of her neck snapping?That would be this book. Ann/Alys is a sociopath from the get-go and proud of it. And there's no explanation as to why. There's little to no reflection (which could have been interesting-is she mad at her assumingly abandoning parents? Mad at herself? At Hugo? The class system? Are the horror components real in the book's 'verse, or are they her delusions, or...IDEK). Not one character *stays* in character from beginning to end. The narrative disgust towards female bodies is disturbing, to say the least. Maybe this is just deep third person POV but it was relentless. And to make things a bit worse, frequent word-padding, describing things we already know, re-making the same point multiple times. Lurking in the shadows is the feeling there could have been more, there must have been some interesting backstory, some depths that could have been plumbed, but nope, we get this shallow hot mess.I wish I hadn't read this but at least I enjoyed the other series first. I can't imagine reading this first and ever picking up another book by this author.

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    A Cautionary Tale
  

*by O***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2016*

What a shocker of a book. Many reviewers here had nothing kind to say about the story of Alys, an orphan girl left on the doorstep of wise woman Morach. Always seeking a better life, Alys goes from Morach to the Abbey and from the Abbey to the castle where she meets her fate.A long-time Gregory fan, I was not expecting THIS: a very unsettling, dark story with no redeeming characters - well, maybe Mother Hildebrande. When Alys succumbed for the first time to the temptation of her powers, I was so angry that I literally threw the book. But I picked it up again and found myself enmeshed in the tale.I'd like to talk to Gregory about "WiseWoman." I see it as a brave experiment on her part, a cautionary tale about the dangers of straying from ... goodness. She has ingeniously used an historical framework to tell Alys's story, showcasing the inequities, political intrigues, and superstitions of the era while wrenching the reader into an examination of his own beliefs.I would not want to read many books like this. But I am glad I read this one.

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    Wow!
  

*by B***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2021*

I’m a big fan of Philippe Gregory, having read most of her work.This was so excellent I would give it  6 stars! . I love how the character develops -survival her first instinct. Incredible character journey-following the church first then a man, letting her survival instincts take over when she runs from the burning abbey.  We see how hard it was to be a penniless orphan in England.Through the whole book I knew those who burned the abbey would be avenged.  I think this is her best book so far, at least on par with the White Queen.This was a wonderful book and I recommend it highly.  Loved the ending.

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