"Doomed" is 230-page historical fiction novel. The book takes place from 1520-1536 in England, and was written by author Carolyn Meyer.

Queen Anne Boleyn Tudor, or Anne Boleyn as she is known, is the heroine of the story. Or is she? I don't think calling her the heroine is appropriate, because she was the one in the story who caused the problems, in a sense. Anne Boleyn was the middle child, and the ill-favored daughter because she had a mole on her neck and the stub of an additional finger on her left hand. When she was 13 she said she would one day marry King Henry VIII, even though he was already married to Queen Catherine of Aragon. That was when the conflict started.

When King Henry began courting Lady Anne, he was still married to Queen Catherine. After six years of waiting, he divorced Catherine, secretly marrying Anne before the divorce was finished, and Anne became pregnant.

All the astrologers and doctors said she would have a son, but then she had Princess Elizabeth. She started to have an anger-management problem, and had 3 miscarriages. Then King Henry fell in love with Lady Jane Seymour (who would later bear him a son), and charged Anne with treason.?? At the end of the novel, Anne Boleyn is beheaded on Tower Green.

I give this book 4 1/2 stars. What's great about it is that all of it was true, it all happened along time ago! In other stories about King Henry VIII (or his son, or any of his two daughters) I've never seen them mention in full depth, or in as much detail why or how Anne Boleyn came to be, and how she achieved part of her goal, only to lose it all at the end.

If you want to know what happened during the dramatic life of Anne Boleyn, I suggest you get off the computer and read this book.

Off to read a new one!
**PEACE**

This book is aimed at kids ages 12 and up.