Title: Magical Realism or Tiresome Bodice-Ripper?
Product review: Anyone who has enjoyed the beautifully written Eleanor of Aquitaine by Historian Alison Weir will find this a painful and tiresome read. There are details that ring false, and after awhile it was hard to stay interested. After trudging through the Chilean deserts, almost dying of thirst, the troop still has wine to give their wounded warriors? In the springtime, she reports they at last have fruit to eat--what fruits ripen in the spring? An entire battalion of soldiers disguises themselves in sheets--where would there be that many precious and costly sheets in the 16th century? I suppose all of this can be attributed to poetic license or "magical realism" but it just rings false and silly. Perhaps teenage girls will enjoy it as a spicy fairy story.
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