I read this right before Christmas and I loved it too. I love historical fiction, though, precisely because of the detail-filling in. But my favorite part of The Other Boleyn Girl was kind of a very small, very snarky aspect: Jane Seymour. In the "divorced, beheaded, died" mantra she's just a footnote, usually portrayed as sweet and weak and feeble (and then dead). But in this book she was a calculating, manipulative bitch just like Anne... and I totally bought it.