I loved this book. I recommend reading The White Queen first, it made this one a lot easier to dive into. The White Queen is written from the point of view of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of the York line, while The Red Queen is written from the point of view of Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the Lancaster heir. By reading both books you get a clear view of the War of the Roses from both sides of the lines. Unlike The White Queen, I found that it was easier to keep track of the characters in this book and that I didn't get lost in the repeating family names. Whether this is due to my familiarity with the story from the other side or just a difference in the writing I cannot say. These books are wonderful for anyone with a love of either historical fiction or just fascination with the royal lineage of England. I would read any of Philippa Gregory's books over and over again.

This book was fantastic! Recommended to me by a friend and read nearly the same time by another, this is a very fast read that sucks you into the story line. Every scene is detailed and the characters are well developed. This is a book that I can see myself reading over and over again.

I really enjoyed this book. I love historical fiction, but WWII was not a time period I had really spent much time with in the past. This was a great first book to try out for that era. The details were fantastic (except for one mistake near the beginning of the book about CDs, but I let that one go - even though it bugged me for a few pages). I live just a few hours from the Japanese internment camp spoken about in the novel so I found that even more interesting. The writing is beautiful and the character of Henry is great. The supporting characters aren't as well developed, but they still tend to work well. I'm really glad that the book is structured the way it is - bouncing back and forth from past to present. Sometimes that can create a really disjointed story line, but in this case I think it worked in favor of strengthening the book as a whole. This is a book I will be reading again.

This is an incredibly hard book to read, simply from an emotional standpoint. It's a short piece, but an amazingly powerful one that should be read by everyone. The writing is blunt and does not shy away from the uncomfortable, presenting a picture of concentration camp life that is harrowing and will put the reader at the same time both disgusted by and amazed by the human spirit. It is a reminder to be vigilant, to not be complacent, and to be watchful of the world around you.

I really liked this one. It borders on YA/Adult fiction. I more or less fell in love with the characters. It had a sort of Ya-Ya Sisterhood feel to it. (Full review to come.)

I love Audrey Niffenegger. I was just as pleased with this book as I had been with The Time Traveler's Wife. Though the story deals with ghosts and a rather fantastical plot line, it didn't feel contrived or hard to believe. I really enjoyed this book. She did a good job of creating enough mystery around the plot line that I was hooked within the first few pages. I read the whole book in just a few days and found myself excited to get back to it. I felt as true sense of getting to know the characters and I wanted to see where their paths would take them.

The story centers on Julia and Valentina Poole, twin sisters who inherit their Aunt Elspeth's flat upon her death with the strange condition that they live there for a year and do not allow their parents to enter the apartment. They are thrust out of the life they know and are forced to start to think about the future.

Each main character in the plot has their own selfish tendencies as well as an obsession. These are the things that bring them all together and thread the plot as a cohesive whole. There is Martin, with his OCD so pervasive that he drives off his own wife; Julia, the twin who wants to be in charge and can't stand the thought of living a life different from that of her sister; Robert, who obsesses about his thesis, but can't find a way to make it whole and finds himself torn between love for two women; and Valentina, the weaker twin who knows inside what she wants but cannot break free of her domineering sister.

This is absolutely a book that I would recommend to other readers. I will certainly be reading it again. Though it wasn't as sweepingly romantic as The Time Traveler's Wife, I still found it enthralling and wonderful.