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Title: Historical revisionism of the worst sort
Review: Anyone can write a so called "historical novel"History means nothing to those who do so..Facts are expendable when they are counterproductive to the fictional storyline..Real people's lives can be altered to suit the fantasies of the novelist..Such is the case with this novel..First of all the REAL Marie Leveau was hardly a feminist(but,in today's bass-ackwards world "feminism" can be magically discovered in any situation that furthers the agenda of the feminists),second,the facts concerning the TWO maries,mother and daughter,hardly jibe with the concocted twaddle to be found in this novel..I mean,why bother to write a story using a REAL person's life as the basis for your plotline if,in the end,you discard all of the facts about that person and substitute your own made up twaddle?..but this is the story here,a fictional and ridiculous plotline that uses Marie Leveau's name but discards every other known fact about her in favor of rather commonplace fiction.
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