A review by susannavs
The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile by C.W. Gortner

3.0

What I know of Isabella and Ferdinand is that they were Columbus's patron, and they oversaw the Inquisition (nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!)... I found some of Isabella's thoughts to be too modern in this book (I don't think her expectation that Ferdinand was completely faithful to her during their years apart was realistic. Certainly not for that time. And not for kings.). It was a pity the book ended when it did though - I'm left wondering what Isabella did with her maid, Beatriz, who was from "converso" stock and would had to have left Spain in the later years of the Inquisition! Overall though, I enjoyed this :-)