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I finished Juno Dawson’s prequel to the HMRC trilogy, QUEEN B. She took us all the way back to the 16th century, following the reign and tragic downfall of powerful witch Anne Boleyn. What a wild ride! I loved the way she connected Anne’s story to witchcraft, transforming her from a victim to a power to be contended with. This quote was too good: “It was, and there was no other word for it, scary to live under a ruler who wrote the rules as he went. […] It was unprecedented and unnerving. She understood why the king was so popular; the people saw his blatant disregard of the established order as an opportunity for their meager, humdrum lives to magically improve. They were fools if they thought that. The king served only himself, always. The empire was an extension of his self.” Sure, that was about Henry VII, but doesn’t it ring true of another certain rotund orange blowhard we are currently suffering?????