Saturday, March 14, 2020

2020 book 55

Michelle Cooper's A Brief History of Montmaray
This feels like the perfect time to escape into some historical fiction—well, alternate historical fiction. This story is the diary of a teenage girl, a princess of a tiny kingdom on a tiny island between England and Spain, living a quiet life in a rundown castle. But it’s 1936, so things aren’t going to stay quiet for too long. I love the narrative voice here, and the whole cast of eccentrics is compelling. Satisfying stuff.

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