A review by mjoyced
Blood & Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant

4.0

Unlike all of Sarah Dunant's other historical novels, this one took me a while to get through with several stops and starts. Maybe because it switched perspectives so often between many characters, which gave a fullness to the stories being told, but slowed the pace of the plot. Again, Dunant's novel paints a picture of not just historical figures, but more of the period and lifestyle of the time that they inhabit, pointing out the why's and where's of the characters decisions that could not be seen without their context.