Title: More fiction than history, but very well-written
Review: Like most historical fiction, this book is more fiction than history. However, the historical details are present, and not in a superfluous manner--they were sufficient to keep me from getting frustrated and were acutally woven into the story, not just halfheartedly thrown in.As for the story itself, Sundaresan is a good writer, and knows how to hold her reader's interest. The characters are reasonably well-developed (I say "reasonably" because some are better developed than others), the descriptions are enough to keep the reader's imagination fired but not excessive, and the plotline itself is strong. I wouldn't put this book in the top-10 I have ever read, but it was still a four-star read and I will be one of the first to own "Feast of Roses", the sequel to "Twentieth Wife", when it comes out on paperback.
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