I found this to be an intriguing, suspenseful, easy-to-read true* story of King Edward II of England and Queen Isabella. SPOILER ALERT: Skip the section in brackets! As we watch Isabella evolve from a naïve child bride from France [to a young mother who realizes she is married to a gay man to a woman who has been exiled back to her home country and into another man's arms] the book likewise covers a range of human traits from noble to diabolical. Love in its many forms, greed, jealousy, hubris, hunger for power, treachery, hypocrisy and more are all experienced at one point or another by all the main characters, for whom the institutions of religion, politics and marriage are mere inconveniences.
*Except, perhaps, the Epilogue.
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