Maggie Reed’s Reviews > The Borgias: The Hidden History > Status Update

Machiavelli! I forgot to add him to the wonderous list! There are a lot of things about him written here that I find really interesting!

So many characters we may or may not have heard of in history are here in this recap of the era of the Borgias. It just doesn't stop.

I was good before, but now it's getting even better. There's nothing like refuting the entire Borgia story as we know it - and look at that! The author is pointing out that this has been done before and IGNORED! I love it

This book is amazing and powerful. All those stories you have heard about the Borgias? Toss those theories. They were promoted by disgruntled parties initially and picked up because they were in writing by those who didn't know any better and "assumed". Meyer has gone through a lot of research. And Vlad the Impaler? Yeah. More to the story than meets the eye. It's all in here and I'm loving every detail.

This is not your average book about the Borgias. It starts out farther back than you'd expect, and tells the stories of others who may be familiar to you, and yet it's not what you'd expect to hear. Constantinople is key to this book, as is much of the rest of the Balkans. I would say it's worth the read already.