The Moon and the Sun

I was prepared to hate this book. It is an alt-history of a period I don't particularly like, the French court of Louis XIV filled with excruciating detail about clothes and social station. The heroine is a poor lady-in-waiting who was abused by nuns when she was raised in the convent in the French colony of Martinique. And an inordinate amount of time is spent on court drama and relationships, licit and illicit. But after about a quarter of the way through, I found myself caught up in all this drama as it supported the main plot of this story, the bringing of a human-like sea monster to Louis' menagerie of animals.

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