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Sex with Kings by Eleanor Herman
3.0
This book was very lucky. I read it on the beach in Portugal on my honeymoon. I think under almost any other circumstances I would have lost patience with it much more quickly. As it was, I made it almost all the way through in good spirits, and only got impatient the last couple dozen pages.
I have shelved the book "history," but I'm not actually sure about that. It's really more "history lite" or some other nonsensical genre. She did do some research, but she focused on a handful of women, rather than looking broadly as the title implies. The research she did yielded some entertaining anecdotes, but I never felt confident trusting their historical veracity. And many women you wondered about were left out, as well as whole countries that could have been profitably mined.
It was pure fluff, not too objectionable, but on the whole not worthy of recommendation either. Best read in a romantic location demanding very little of your academic brain.
I have shelved the book "history," but I'm not actually sure about that. It's really more "history lite" or some other nonsensical genre. She did do some research, but she focused on a handful of women, rather than looking broadly as the title implies. The research she did yielded some entertaining anecdotes, but I never felt confident trusting their historical veracity. And many women you wondered about were left out, as well as whole countries that could have been profitably mined.
It was pure fluff, not too objectionable, but on the whole not worthy of recommendation either. Best read in a romantic location demanding very little of your academic brain.