A review by velocitygirl14
The Barefoot Queen by Ildefonso Falcones

2.0

I love Spanish literature, but this one was a book that sort of made me go, eh. I loved Cathedral of the Sea and was hoping that this was going to follow in the same vein, but this one sadly falls short of the grandoise scope and characterization that the other book was grand for. I loved all of the characters in Cathedral of the Sea, but Milagros and Caridad were meh. Short of being fate's punching bags and the sexiest bitches to walk the land if the descriptions are to be believed, didn't find much substance to them.

The action took ages to get started and I found myself actually skimming and counting pages, which is always a bad sign. Maybe next novel will have him be back in form. But yeah, not his best.