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It may be that with two stars I'm being too generous, but then having tried this novel of Queen Esther after the eye-bleedingly awful The Other Boleyn Girl, this didn't seem so wretched in comparison. Which doesn't mean it's good, and it didn't hold my interest and only its appearance on a historical fiction recommendation list caused me to give it over 50 pages.
I wasn't taken with the style at all. For one, this is first person, yet early on she's telling us of scenes in the palace with Xerxes ...more
I wasn't taken with the style at all. For one, this is first person, yet early on she's telling us of scenes in the palace with Xerxes ...more

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