Weir is childish. Normally I don’t like to judge people, but being that books are my job, and I do read a lot of books, I tend to be very analytical when I am reading things, even fiction. Sometimes I might over-analyse things *shrug* but Weir is an open book (no pun)
Weir has a pattern in her books, fiction and non-fiction, where she inserts certain comments that allude to criticism against her. Her last fiction novel, a Dangerous Inheritance, has several remarks about historical events being difficult to prove, or something along those lines. I can’t quite it exactly without going back to it (and to be frank I can’t be bothered) but her character is trying to solve the mystery of the princes in the Tower and a remark similar to that is made several times. She then makes an indirect attack on historians/novelists trying to defend Francis Brandon in the author notes by pretty much saying they are incorrect, and pulling a paper by a recent graduate out of the air to defend her opinion. Weir always makes out that anyone disagreeing with her is attacking her, and that they simply must be wrong.
Quite frankly it’s starting to disgust me. I didn’t make a note of it in my last review because it doesn’t pertain to the book and it may have been a long off-topic rant. Better to share it here. The only non-fiction book of hers I enjoyed had one of her smug notes in it about how it was longer, and therefore the first, real biography on Mary Boleyn. She is insecure, gloats and brags to cover up her insecurities, and lashes out at anyone who disagrees with her.
And yes, I only pick these things up from reading her books. Could be because I have read a few in a short time period, but her behaviour on Goodreads is enough evidence.

Ahhh. Now back to you Louise, I’m going to start that awful book next week. I noticed the absence of actual page numbers in her notes I am just thankful i read Claire’s book first and have the facts.

I’m going to have to hunt that series down. I know I have the books somewhere in storage so I will have to wait a while before I can read them. I quite like Starkey’s docos, Craig makes fun of him though. he must agree with you Bo. I enjoy drooling over his library when they take shots in his office. Those books!

Neil Kemp said

Claire, you really shouldn’t go around giving Weir ideas for her next book!

Or worse still SWMNBN..

Olga, there really does seem to be no hope. Do people really buy this stuff? Pass me the gun now (with silver bullets in, of course).

Neil Kemp said

Olga, there really does seem to be no hope. Do people really buy this stuff? Pass me the gun now (with silver bullets in, of course).

Actually they don’t Neil, the remainder shops here are piled high with all the vampired and zombified classics, they’ve done Bronte and Austen. I think they’ve also done Elizabeth and Victoria as Vampire Hunters. But they certainly don’t sell well, it’s all a passing twilight craze.

Really Clare if she was a proper vampire she could have just sewn her head back on

Louise, that’s Anne Boleyn Ancient Alien! I can see it now, with a foreword by Erich Von Daniken…

LOL Clare, I think where you need to go is either tweak into into Archery or perhaps Henry and his wives liked a bit of BDSM. I have just come back from the shops and in the book section next to the unbelievable amount of 50 Shades books, were all these lame ripoffs with similar covers like 80 Days Yellow about a celloist and a professor who will fix her violin and some spoof version called 50 Shades of Mr Darcy. I can see it now, The Six Shades Of Henry