A review by abookishtype
The Barefoot Queen by Ildefonso Falcones

2.0

Caridad, Melchor Vega, Ana Vega, and Milagros Carmona all seem to have nothing but bad luck. That or author Falcones likes nothing better than to create characters and then torture them for almost 700 pages. As The Barefoot Queen rolls along, there is poverty, injustice, imprisonment, slavery, rape, and murder. It's a wonder that anyone survives what Falcones puts his characters through...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley for review consideration.