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A review by mistressofroses
Sins of the House of Borgia by Sarah Bower
1.0
I debated with myself for so long whether to just ditch this book or not, and today I finally decided about a quarter of the way through that a book that annoys me this much isn't worth wasting my life on.
The writing is super tedious, almost as if it were translated from a language that has incredibly long sentences by someone who didn't know how to end them.
There's a lot of assumptions made here about the fact that we're going to find Cesare Borgia a panty-dropper regardless of hearing nothing about him other than that he's handsome (I'm fairly certain the re-brand was hoping that people would be imagining the Cesare from The Borgias as they read this for their characterization). The narrator, too, is supposed to be a "reformed Jewess" at the behest of Lucretzia, but save for a few references to scripture here and there and her pearl-clutching at a very blah telling of the Feast of the Chestnuts, there's really nothing here for that, either, her different-ness just carted out when things are getting a little stale and tension needs to come from somewhere.
I'm actually relieved to be free of this, which is a shame, because the Borgia story deserves a Giant Tome with a great title...just not this one.
The writing is super tedious, almost as if it were translated from a language that has incredibly long sentences by someone who didn't know how to end them.
There's a lot of assumptions made here about the fact that we're going to find Cesare Borgia a panty-dropper regardless of hearing nothing about him other than that he's handsome (I'm fairly certain the re-brand was hoping that people would be imagining the Cesare from The Borgias as they read this for their characterization). The narrator, too, is supposed to be a "reformed Jewess" at the behest of Lucretzia, but save for a few references to scripture here and there and her pearl-clutching at a very blah telling of the Feast of the Chestnuts, there's really nothing here for that, either, her different-ness just carted out when things are getting a little stale and tension needs to come from somewhere.
I'm actually relieved to be free of this, which is a shame, because the Borgia story deserves a Giant Tome with a great title...just not this one.