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If it is historically accurate, Elizabeth I has a lot to answer for. What treachery and deceit! Told from the Earl of Shrewsbury, his wife Bess, and the Scots Queen Mary's point of view, it lets us see how difficult it could be for any monarch to stay on the throne, or retain one's lost throne. According to Gregory, Mary Queen of Scots was ordered to stay with the Shrewsburys where they had to provide for her as one would a queen for sixteen years. The Earl was ruined by the amount of expenditures he had to provide for the minicourt that arose around the queen. Gregory takes pains to be accurate, so she does not manufacture any events that cannot be documented. There is no meeting of Elizabeth and Mary. Fascinating.

This was my first truly gory book that I read and turned me on to splatterpunk-ish books. I liked the speed of the book. It's a twisted read. The translation was pretty good. 5/5.