Title: The best part of this book is the peacock!
Product review: I think the idea behind this book is creative. I like the author's attempt to create round characters out of infamous women who have, for the most part, been remembered in history as one-dimensional. What I don't like is the way the author tries to "save" these women, cast them in a better light. Maybe some of these women were whores. But that's o.k. because "whore" hasn't always had such negative connotations. Pagan cultures had holy whores who honored the Goddess. I guess I'm getting off track here, but it just bothered me that the author seemed to be so caught up in defusing the word "whore," in proving that these women were innocents. So they had sex--so what!
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