Title: The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette
Author: Carolyn Meyer
Published: 2010, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Rating: 5/5
Carolyn Meyer set out on a mission to tell the story of Marie Antoinette, whom history has painted as a selfish and shallow woman. Combining her in-depth research and her historical fiction writing talent, Meyer presents a stellar narrative of a young princess who is expected to be perfect. Masterfully written in first person, readers are allowed into the private thoughts and feelings of the Queen who history has horribly misunderstood. Meyer leaves her audience with a much different opinion about the character and psyche of the last queen of France. Readers will find themselves contemplating what they would have done if they were put in the position that Marie Antoinette found herself in.
Check out the other novels in the Young Royals series:
Cleopatra Confesses (Just Released!)
Mary, Blood Mary
Beware, Princess Elizabeth
Patience, Princess Catherine
Doomed Queen Anne
Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine de' Medici
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