Maria Antonietta

This book was pretty good. I have not read much about Marie Antoinette, though I did see the movie the recent movie and liked it. This book is told from Marie's pov, which is nice. She is kind of naive, silly, but innocent. Her husband Louis is portrayed as mentally deficient-not in terms of learning Leggi tutto

Carrolly Erickson does everything in her power in this book to make Marie Antoinette appear self-absorbed, insensitive, vacuous, and oversexed, then expects you to be incensed when her enemies come to the same conclusion. I was baffled why suddenly she was some Great Queen who was victimized by the

This was a decent historical fiction novel written in a diary format, which provides a first person voice to the life of Marie Antoinette. As the author notes at the conclusion of the book, this is “a work of fiction, not fact – a historical entertainment, not an attempt at historical reconstruction Leggi tutto

Loved it! Mrs. Antoinette was born before her time - she would definitely be giving Paris Hilton a run for her money right now.

I love Marie Antoinette's story, but I was not a fan of this book. I will often skip titles when I'm reading, unless they are interesting, but in a book like this, titles cannot be skipped. I would get very confused as to what year it was because some sections would jump months between them. In addi Leggi tutto

È stato il mio primo approccio alla scrittura della Erickson e ne sono rimasta piacevolmente sorpresa! Per essere un romanzo storico sotto forma di diario, che ripercorre le tappe fondamentali della regina Maria Antonietta, è di facile lettura e le parole scivolano una dopo l’altra come l’olio! Semb Leggi tutto