by Sandra Gulland
This purports to be the diary of Josephine Bonaparte from the time she was a fourteen-year-old plantation owner's daughter in Martinique in 1777 to her marriage to Napoleon in 1796. That's its weakness and it's strength. The weakness, I think, being that diary format. There are novels told in diary ...
2.5 starsI have never been interested in Napoleon, nonetheless one of his wives. But I am fascinated by the French Revolution and this book centers largely around that period of time. Also, since I had very little knowledge about Rose (aka Josephine), I was intrigued. However, I did not find the nov...
What a great introduction to Josephine (Rose). Typically I do not like the diary style of writing but Gulland skillfully makes it work. This is the first of series and I am sold. We meet Josephine as a young girl living on a sugar cane plantation and follow her to France to be married to her first h...
I could not get past the first 3 or 4 pages.This is written in a first person epistolary style. Just could not get into it. Might try another time.
An interesting and fairly readable book about Josephine Bonaparte and her amazing life. A bit choppy in the execution, but most lovers of HF should like this one. For the complete review, please go here:http://www.epinions.com/content_43421109892
NO SPOILERSI have thoroughly enjoyed this book, the first of Sandra Gulland's trilogy concerning Josephine Bonaparte. I have completed ALL three books of the trilogy. I think it is very important to read them as one book. For that reason I will write one review and let it stand for all three books. ...
I really enjoyed this story; I'm already looking forward to the next one.Sanrda Gulland takes you seamlessly through the many different stages of Rose's (Josephine's) life. From her Creole upbringing to her marriage to a French rebel to her imprisonment to her introduction to the sallow and ungainly...
I became engrossed with this novel from the beginning. Once I entered Rose's world, I didn't want to leave it. Luckily, this book is a first of a trilogy about Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie aka Josephine Bonaparte (she is known as Rose in this novel).Gulland has created an exquisite story...
i LOVED this book...i knew next to nothing about napoleon (other than the complex that bears his name!) and even less about his queen, so i was very intrigued to read about their lives. although most of this first book in gulland's trilogy is spent on josephine's (rose) early life, and napoleon doe...
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