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Joanne Renaud
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It's not badly written for an older novel, but it's incredibly dated. It's written in this oddly distant way, it's filled with casual sadism and brutality (including the way rape is handled) and the characters are all really flat and unlikeable, with no internal life. Also highly dubious of this book's historicity (heroine has never heard of stays before she was 15). Sure. Let's see if I can finish this thing.
— Mar 03, 2018 10:01AM
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Joanne Renaud
is on page 577 of 820
I'm determined to finish this. Now that the obnoxious Joffrey has been arrested, and Angelique is trying to get him out of the Bastille, navigating the 17th century court system, things have become more interesting. I do like the descriptions of Paris. Angelique is an insufferable narcissist, though, who has forgotten the fact that maybe the Archbishop of Toulouse doesn't like Joff because he MURDERED HIS NEPHEW.
— Mar 29, 2018 10:48AM
Joanne Renaud
is on page 80 of 820
Well, this is, uh, interesting. It's always interesting reading a supposed "classic." Angelique is well written & lively, with lots of interesting details, but with its creepily dead-eyed, voyeuristic depiction of trauma and sexual violence, so far I CANNOT recommend it to anyone. It’s triggering AF. Also, I doubt anyone under the age of 50 would have any interest in reading it. It’s not aged well.
— Feb 25, 2018 12:50AM
