Sean O’s Reviews > The Iron King > Status Update

2025 reread: this is some well-written historical fiction.

I don't know how much of this is fiction, but I don't care. It's terrific.

I love a good turn of phrase, and this book is full of them. "From Clermont, in the throes of gaiety, could be heard a great clamour of welcome for the beautiful Queen of twenty-two, who was about to bring the most surprising of disasters upon the Court of France."