Marie Antoinette (10 books in series)
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review 1: Juliet Grey’s debut novel, Becoming Marie Antoinette, is well-written and detailed, providing readers with a glimpse into the dauphine’s formative years and early days at Versailles. While the content of this novel is not particularly ground-breaking, I still enjoyed this book.Th...
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review 1: Love this book and looking forward to the second in the trilogy.
review 2: An interesting tale of a history of which I was unfamiliar. Can't wait for the third in the trilogy!
review 2: An interesting tale of a history of which I was unfamiliar. Can't wait for the third in the trilogy!
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review 1: Amazing :)
review 2: Very nice written. All from Marie's point of view. You can't help but love her.
review 2: Very nice written. All from Marie's point of view. You can't help but love her.
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review 1: ***Contains Spoilers!***This last installment of the trilogy is definitely the best of the three. The first, Becoming Marie-Antoinette, was OK. The second, Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow, was atrocious. I disliked the lack of description in both those novels, but appreciated it...
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review 1: This was an excellent portrayal of the violence and pure craziness that was the French Revolution. The blood shed and just utter disregard for life that the French people had with anyone in the upper class, monarchy and clergy is just beyond comprehension. My heart ached for the ...
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review 1: I did not like it. I did go in the story.I think the writer spent time on description of certain situation or simple on certain oblect like clothes. I understand that we have to have a clear image of how the Queen Marie antoinette used to live, but it is killing the flow of the s...
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review 1: I wasn't impressed with the first novel in Juliet Grey's trilogy about Marie Antoinette. So why then did I decide to continue on to the second? I figured since Marie Antoinette's life became more interesting once she became Queen of France, the novel focusing on the same time per...
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review 1: I like the authors writing style and sympathetic view of Marie Antoinette. I have always had a fascination with her so I enjoyed how detailed this account of her life is. In the back of the book the author points out how much of this book is factual and where she took some libert...
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review 1: This is the third and final book in Grey's telling of Marie Antoinette's life. It begins with the te royal family being forced from Versailles and ending with her death. Once again she stays as factually true as possible and her explanation of why she made the choice she did in t...
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review 1: Though the first and last book of the series was strong, this one felt weak and thrown together. It chronicles M.A.'s childless marriage to the Affair of the Necklace. I had a hard time sympathizing with M.A. as she came across as whiny and blameless, such as blaming her frivolou...