I have my doubts as to whether whoever wrote the review quoted on the cover calling this book “a racy, pacy story with a cast of rogues and villains” has in fact read it. It was neither racy, nor pacy, and the characters weren’t fleshed out enough to be rogues and villains. In fact, it didn’t really have characters at all, just figures who appeared as the narrative required. However, while I wasn’t the slightest bit interested in the characters, least of all the insipid narrator, I was quite intrigued by the events she described. Chantal Thomas does an excellent job of portraying the downfall of Versailles, she just doesn’t make you care about it.

Farwell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas.  Published by Phoenix, 2004, pp. 256.  Originally published in 2002.

N.B. This is an old review written in 2010 and posted on Goodreads and LibraryThing before I started keeping track of all the books I read here at Old English Rose Reads.  I’ve decided to keep copies here so that this remains a complete record of my reading since I started reviewing books for my own pleasure.