I'm perplexed as to why this book has received so many bad reviews on goodreads. In an effort to understand why some people seem to have loathed this book that I positively loved, I read through a few pages of the reviews. I can only conclude that many modern readers do not seem to have to patien...
Once upon a time, in fifteenth-century Italy, two women faced each other with a ruthlessness and brilliance no man has ever matched. Enter their world of splendor and depravity, of passion and wickedness... It is Italy's most dazzling and dangerous age, and as Beatrice d'Este and Isabella of Arag...
I have struggled to decide how to rate this book quite a bit and have rated it high despite a few quite integral flaws;It took me a long time to read this book; months where I would normally I get through a good book in days. Honestly, I may never have finished it if it did not relate so very spe...
Only when the great warhorse fought the bit, swinging its head from side to side, did the illusion vanish.I did not even sense the men at my back.At once they had a hood over my head and powerful hands bound my wrists behind me. I was hoisted into a saddle and in a heartbeat we started off. Havin...