A review by writerlibrarian
Les Quarante-cinq by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

4.0

Third and last novels in Dumas' retelling of the Valois cursed family history, Les Quarante-cing is an unfinished tale which is kinda of frustrating but then again if the reader wants to know how it ends, we can read all about it in history books. The appeal for me in this one is still the political games, much more important than in the first two, Henri de Navarre plays possum but moves his chess pieces behind the scene, Henri de Guise still wants to be king and Henri III is a lonely, lonely king who is bored out of his skull. Dumas probably had a fourth book planned in this series but it never came to be, which is a shame.