Book #47 - The Devil's Queen by Jeanne Kalogridis

This book was the story of the life of Catherine de Medici the Italian born princess who became Queen of France. Fascinating insight to what live as a royal is really like. Cutthroat, conniving, and more political than even we American's can fathom. There were parts of this book that we so despicable that I could barely stomach it. It has been recorded that in real life, Catherine was involved in astrology and dark magic, and in this book, she used the darkest possible magic to help conceive her children. However, each one of her children had either physical or mental deformities. All of her sons were evil to their core, and she gave her life and soul to care for each of them. The other very interesting part of the book was how much constant war the Italians, French, and Spanish were involved in, and for the most part, they were about territory or religion. The book ended with a massive massacre of the French Protestants by the French Catholics. Gruesome. Again, if you like history but get bogged down by the dryness of nonfiction, these novels about real historical people are the way to go.