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...
3.5 starsNapoleon is desperate for an heir and is about to divorce his wife Josephine. For his second wife he chooses 18-year old Marie-Louise, daughter of the king of Austria and great-niece of Marie-Antoinette.Marie-Louise is not happy to be married to a man she despises but she knows her duty whi...
*sigh* It seems as though Michelle Moran's novels are hit or miss for me. I absolutely loved Madame Tussaud and Cleopatra's Daughter, but cared little for Nefertiti or The Heretic Queen. Unfortunately The Second Empress will be joining the latter category, very disappointing.The Second Empress has a...
So far I have not read a Moran book that disappointed me, and I happy to say that one was just as good as the rest.Through out the whole book there was this easy flow to it, I took it up and started reading and suddenly I found myself 1/3 through the book. So I did what any booklover would do, I fin...
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