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Old 01-21-2015, 12:48 PM   #5
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I also thought the whole thing was cheesy. I'm not saying sex wasn't a big aspect of parts of the story, but I could have skipped the tender moments between Robert and Isabella, and also between Guccio and his countryside amour whose name I can't remember. And in both cases, Druon attributed great consequences to the connections, but didn't follow up. I hate series where the books aren't complete in themselves. You can't say Robert and Isabella started the war and then not have the war start. War, what war? It's poor fiction and poor history.
I guess Druon would want us to read the whole series to know the connection
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Similarly, Guccio and his burying of the incriminating casket in the countryside seemed like a huge stretch to me. Too much could have gone wrong and the documents been irretrievable. Kind of like Lady Mary giving her thingie to Anna to hide in her barebones cottage, instead of finding a secret place (surely she could have managed a locked drawer) in her own room. *ahem*
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