4.12 avg rating — 11,558 ratings

"This is a perfect example of bad historical fiction. But apparently not according to Goodreads."

4.01 avg rating — 4,531 ratings

"Also a really bad example of historical fiction."

4.05 avg rating — 2,968 ratings

"I must have been missing something everyone else saw in this book..."

4.09 avg rating — 512,197 ratings

3.31 avg rating — 1,706 ratings

"Not the worst kind of historical fiction, but preachy and boring with constant infodumps that don't really relate to the plot. Maybe it would have been better if I hadn't already known about Renaissance Florence going in...?"

4.05 avg rating — 11,925 ratings

3.98 avg rating — 12,716 ratings

"The first book in this series was ~okay, but this was just dreadful; no idea why it has an average rating of 4.01!"