The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009IAGM0K
Publish date: August 14th 2012
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Historical Romance,
19th Century,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
France,
European History,
French Revolution
Not quite the sweeping sagas of Moran's other novels, but only because the scope was a little narrower. The main characters centered mostly around the French court and a few from the Austrian -- circling around the relationship between Napolean and his second wife. Napoleon's rule, and subsequent do...
A Novel of Napoleon’s CourtThis is the story of Austrian archduchess Marie Louise who at the age of nineteen married Napoleon Bonaparte and became his second wife and mother to the sole heir of the French Empire. At the time the French court was a wild place and this young, shy and politically inexp...
This was okay.... Not my favorite book of hers. I think what changed was the fact you had to keep track of sooo many story lines... Would have liked it better if it was just Maria Lucia's
Guys, I loved Michelle Moran's YA novel Cleopatra's Daughter. And ever since I've been dying to read more by her as I've heard nothing but good things about her writing. And while I did enjoy this novel, there was something stopping me from falling in love with it the way I did with Cleopatra's Daug...
With the excitement of this book's recent publication, I decided to go ahead and make The Second Empress the second book I have read by Michelle Moran. You might recall that I loved Cleopatra's Daughter, and I'm thrilled to report that I also greatly enjoyed The Second Empress. Of course, having now...