This is from the book's description: Versailles, 1686: Julie d'Aubigny, a striking young girl taught to fence and fight in the court of the Sun King, is taken as mistress by the King's Master of Horse. Tempestuous, swashbuckling and volatile, within two years she has run away with her fencing mast...
the subject of this story had one of those lives that truly meets the description of extraordinary, even with the knowledge that rumor exaggerates. and this story was just so damn passive. yes, i admit it. i wanted adventure, romance, intrigue, and revenge. what i got instead were almost wistf...
The ending was good :) Not my favourite, but an interesting read.