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A great read!

ByAnnie MidniteRedon June 17, 2015

This book is exactly what the author, Melanie Clegg, wanted it to be: a light yet thorough biography of Marie Antoinette. Told in her conversational yet informative style, this book is incredibly readable and full of facts that were new to me. I particularly liked her description of the royal family's time in the Temple. Everything I've read previously made it sound like it was almost the same as Marie Antoinette's time in her cell at the Conciergerie, which it definitely was not. A highly entertaining and informative biography, recommended highly.

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I don't like giving negative reviews and this is actually the first ...

ByAnitaon August 7, 2016

I don't like giving negative reviews and this is actually the first time, but this book had the most horrible, most god-awful writing and grammar I've ever seen. I could stand it only for 4 or 5 pages. Please, before downloading this book, go and read a few pages first. What kind of sentence is this.... "Later she would be under the charge of a governess, who would oversee her education, but for now she was primarily cared for by her wet nurse Constance Weber, a magistrate's wife who had been specially selected as much for her beauty, 'pure principles' and good character (it being rather improperly believed that the appearance and personality of a wet nurse could be imbued along with her milk, which was probably fair enough if one was so unwise as to hire an alcoholic or opium eater for the job) as for the quality of the nourishment that she was expected to provide." Clear as mud! Every sentence is a looong-rambling mess where the beginning and end have nothing to do with each other. It seems as if she has tried to cram everything she can think of into each single sentence whether it fits in or not. Terrible!