After ordering our life yesterday…not really…I spent a rainy afternoon finishing this chunkster…when I first wanted to read it…I thought it would be a simple fantasy about a retelling of Rapunzel but it was so much more than that! Three stories…over a span of 200 years and beginning in the mid 1600’s…one was about Charlotte-Rose de la Force…a writer who was banished to a nunnery. Then we have Margherita…the actual Rapunzel character banished to a tower. And last…there is La Strega…the prostitute/ witch who put Margherita in the tower because she needs her blood to stay youthful. All three women have a connection…

Actually after reading this book I think that being a prostitute was the number one occupation for women in the 1600’s…yikes…with being a witch coming in at a close second. This book was extremely good and actually did not feel like a fantasy at all most of the time.

A total switch for me today with this one…a lovely British mystery!

And then back to a fantasy next!

That’s my Tuesday! Have a good one!