The Confessions of Catherine de Medici (Audiobook)

from BookAddictDiary

Gortner returns to the historical fiction genre with his newest offering: The Confessions of Catherine de Medici, a portrait of the infamous French queen and her political struggles for power. As a big fan of Gortner's The Last Queen, I snatched up this follow-up and was eager to see how Gortner ...

from Chatterbox

This is a solid work of historical fiction, one that (thankfully, IMO) leaves behind all the fascination about Catherine-the-necromancer and Catherine-the-poisoner to focus on Catherine de Medici, the politician and woman. To me, that's the most interesting part of the life of this intriguing ind...

from amusingmother

I didn't know much about Catherine of De Medici. Okay, I knew nothing about her but she lived in Italy then France at the same time Henry VIII was busy beheading, divorcing and outliving his six wives So I did the extensive research of looking her up. I used Wikipedia. Snore. The European history...

from BookAddictDiary

Gortner returns to the historical fiction genre with his newest offering: The Confessions of Catherine de Medici, a portrait of the infamous French queen and her political struggles for power. As a big fan of Gortner's The Last Queen, I snatched up this follow-up and was eager to see how Gortner ...

from Sararush

The first few pages of The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by COW Gortner are spellbinding. Gortner has the genius to present the story as if Catherine is for the first time confessing all her sins. Only then this approach quickly gives way to a standard creative fiction narrative which is ade...