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madameshiraz's review
4.0
Sheila Kohler captured the beauty and pain of this chaotic and brutal time in history. Lucy's vivid descriptions transport the reader into Lucy's life, where we feel her sorrow, fear, joy, and understand her loyalty. A beautiful story, sometimes a little slow for me, especially when describing life at court, but I truly enjoyed the book.
maecave15's review
2.0
I really could not finish this book. The writing was odd and confusing, and I don't really know the ages she was during the different events of her life. It was too convoluted to read and I didn't connect with any of the characters.
chelsea_not_chels's review
3.0
2020 reading challenge category: A book with a bird on the cover
Basically a fictionalized biography; nice, but there's a LOT going on in the background here that I feel like could have actually made the book a lot more interesting if it had been more fully incorporated instead of just having it as background at the beginning of each chapter. I studied the French Revolution in school (and actually wrote my thesis on it) so I think I had a lot more context as to what was happening and why it was interesting and important and affected these people so intensely.
Also there was a lot time spent on the ship, more proportionally than it was important to the story, I think.
Basically a fictionalized biography; nice, but there's a LOT going on in the background here that I feel like could have actually made the book a lot more interesting if it had been more fully incorporated instead of just having it as background at the beginning of each chapter. I studied the French Revolution in school (and actually wrote my thesis on it) so I think I had a lot more context as to what was happening and why it was interesting and important and affected these people so intensely.
Also there was a lot time spent on the ship, more proportionally than it was important to the story, I think.
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