A review by stefhyena
The Italian Woman by Jean Plaidy

2.0

All the torture scenes and messed up ways of relating were horrible to think about and ultimately tedious and repetitive. I guess it was well researched, a historical text on the same topic might have been interesting but as a novel the characters were too unlikeable and uninteresting. As women's history it is too "liberal feminist" ie being so interested in Catherine de Medici having power that you miss the point that there is literally NOTHING liberating about this.

I won't bother with any more of these.