A review by liralen
Queen Defiant: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Anne O'Brien

3.0

Reading this, I couldn't help but think how young they were. So much historical fiction about kings and queens paints advisors and so on as power-hungry fiends who are Not To Be Trusted, and while I expect that in some cases that was true -- but at the same time, I imagine it would be difficult to trust the judgement of teenage regents, even if they'd been groomed for the throne.

Anyway. It's a decent enough read. Probably not the most historically accurate thing ever (and I'm starting to think that I should look for historical fiction about Louis VII, just for some balance), but I love seeing a female character with serious agency.