Catherine’s feelings are never a consideration, of course her love for her cousin and her country is dismissed. Henry isn’t the heir, but for an essentially merchant family marrying into the greatest monarchy of the time, this is a huge step. Starting in Italy, Catherine endures the difficulties of Florentine instability at a young age her uncle, the Pope, decides that the Medici family is destined for further greatness and arranges her marriage to one of the French King Francis’s sons, Henry. Imagine my surprise when I cracked open Madame Serpentand found myself enjoying it – a lot! Catherine is very young in this book and I loved watching her turn into her more famous, scheming incarnation over the course of this novel. They sat for those few months, as they were unsolicited and I wasn’t sure I’d like them, but I brought them over to the UK with me because they were light and I really should beef up my historical fiction reading again. Then a few months ago I got the re-releases of her Catherine de Medici trilogy for review. I was completely in love with historical fiction seven years ago, particularly the Tudors, so this was a huge disappointment. I read a couple of her Tudor books way back before I started blogging, so unfortunately I remember very little other than the fact that they were uninspiring. They’ve always seemed very popular to me with other historical fiction bloggers, but I haven’t actually reviewed any of them here.
I have a confession: I’ve never actually been very fond of Jean Plaidy’s books.
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