This is a "different" book, with a little bit of "magic," but I really liked it! Historical fiction with a twist...

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This book won the "Best Book of the Year" from the Library Journal. Not sure I would go that far but it really was a fun read.

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This excellent book might be considered at least as much fantasy as it is historical, because magic works, here in the court of Henri II of France. You have a talking head in a box; Nostradamus; intense rivalry between Queen Catherine de Medici and the King's mistress, Diane de Poitiers; dueling alchemists; a poetess and various characters with designs on her person; and Auntie Pauline, the widow of a man whose profession I will not reveal. I believe I would like to be Pauline when I grow up, though, as she succeeds in knowing someting even Nostradamus doesn't.

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