DEPRESSING. Although I love reading the life of Marie Antoinette, it is also very sad.I originally became interested in her because I was named after her, my middle name being Antoinette. Her story is so tragic that I nearly to cried toward the end. From bad to worse...I luv the way the author wrote her story though, and it is still something you have to read if you want to know more about in a great view also. Very thorough in its details. Meyer really did her research, down to exactly what jewels were on the fancy gowns and what the parties looked like. However, sometimes it was more of a list of things that happened than a novel. I wish there had been more conversations and feelings and less "this happened, and then this, and then this." For example, when King Louis XV died, it was about two paragraphs long. For the first 100 pages, I thought this was the book Sophia Coppola based her 2006 movie on because it was so close. Then at the end, the author's note said she took inspiration from that movie. I'm not sure how I feel about that.I did learn a lot I didn't know before, especially about the last couple of years of her life during which she was basically imprisoned, and then about her death. (The Coppola movie, which I've seen many times, ends as they are forced to leave Versailles with their children.) It was very sad and horrible, and although Marie Antoinette definitely did make some terrible decisions, I can see how she got that way. (That doesn't excuse everything she did, but still.) An interesting, educational read which I finished in about three days. I knew how it was going to end, but I still couldn't put it down.
Do You like book Kötü Kraliçe: Marie Antoniette (2000)?
This book is so close to what actually happened, it is an absolute favorite for Me!
—breann
All I cannot possibly comprehend is how she could spend so much freaking money!
—jgall11
