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Loading... Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleynby Nell Gavin
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  quillmenow | Jun 25, 2009 |  A very interesting take on how the past lives of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII and their friends and enemies might have set the stage for their dramatic lives in the 16th century. Seeing Anne as a prostitute in ancient Egypt explains how she attracted men to her so easily, and Henry as Anne's devoted husband in another life shows that their love was destined. I really enjoyed this book. (  ) kfl1227 | Sep 17, 2007 | An extremely interesting take on Anne Boleyn's life - what would happen if she and the rest of Henry VIII's court were reincarnations and reincarnated over and over again? Watching them through the ages is fascinating. Even better, Gavin addresses the historical inaccuracies she may have included and why she's included them in the back of the book, prompting a better understanding of the work overall. My only problem with it is that it ended abruptly, and I would have appreciated more - some of the repeated storylines do not resolve themselves in the last reincarnation. But perhaps they aren't supposed to, so this is a very small complaint overall. (  ) littlebookworm | Dec 30, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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They don't know they were married 434 years before. They don't know they parted on bad terms. Anne has no idea why she has a compulsion to punish Henry, a man she's only just met, and he has no idea why he can't be near her without falling in love.
They don't know they are bona fide soul mates, bound to each other through eternity. They don't know that this meeting is a test...
Several lifetimes ago, and hundreds of years earlier in 1536, Henry and Anne were at the mercy of influences outside their control, explosively incompatible, and caught in a marriage that ended in betrayal so shocking that Anne required lifetimes to recover.
Henry, seemingly in defense of Anne (but more likely acting out of "stubborn perverseness", she observes), terrorized England and decreed widespread political murder in order to protect her. Ultimately, to Anne's horror, this once passionate husband turned on her and had her executed as well.
Threads, a reincarnation fantasy, opens with Anne's execution. Her fury at her husband’s betrayal has enough momentum to survive centuries, but in Threads she learns that she has been assigned a hard task: she must review their history together through a number of past lives, and find it within herself to forgive him. This may prove difficult and take some time. The husband in question is Henry VIII. The narrator is the stubborn, volatile Anne Boleyn, who is not at all inclined to forgive.
It is a very unusual love story.
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