Those of you who know me, know that I LOVE Jeanne Kalogridis. I have everything that's been published so far, and my Diaries of the family Dracul (Covenant with the Vampire, Children of the Vampire and Lord of the Vampires) have been so well loved they are practically falling apart.
After those, Jeanne went on to publish The Borgia Bride, and I, Mona Lisa. Both of those were great too! I find that I just fall through the page right into the vivid scenes presented. These books are hard to get your hands on though. In all cases, including The Devil's Queen, I had to order them from Amazon, because none of my local bookshops seemed to have it!
Anyways, on with the show..
The Devil's Queen is the story of Catherine de Medici, and begins with the fall of the Medici family.
From Amazon.ca:
From Jeanne Kalogridis, the bestselling author of I, Mona Lisa and The Borgia Bride, comes a newe novel that tells the passionate story of a queen who loved not wisely...but all too well. Confidante of Nostradamus, scheming mother in law to Mary, Queen of Scots, and architect of the bloody St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history. In her latest historical fiction, Jeanne Kalogridis tells Catherine's story - that of a tender young girl, destined to be a pawn in Machiavellian games. Born into one of Florence's most powerful families, Catherine was soon left a favuliously rich heiress by the early deaths of her parents. Violent confilict rent the city state and she found hersle imprisioned and threatened by her family's enemies before finally being realeased and married off to the handson Prince Henry of France. Overshadowed by her husband's mistress, the gorgeous, conniving Diane de Poitiers, and unable to bear children, Catherine resorted to the dark arts of sorcery to win Henry's love and enhance her fertility - for which she would pay a price. Against the lavish and decadent backdrop of the French court, and Catherine's blood-soaked visions of the future, Kalogridis reveals the great love and desire Catherine bore for her husband, Henry, and her stark determination to keep her sons on the throne.
This was a great book. Definately DEFINATELY worth picking up.
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