Margaret, an orphan, lives in a convent on an island off the coast of Albion. The remote convent is meant as a refuge for shipwrecked sailors, but is more often used as a prison for female political prisoners. When the recently dethroned Queen Eleanor arrives at the new queen's insistence, the outside world threatens to crack Margaret and the convent's fragile peace...

This graphic novel pulls heavily from the history of the English Tudor court. As someone who read a lot of historical fiction as a child, I was most interested in the novel's convent setting, which I thought was excellently handled. I'm less sure about the fictionalization of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth I. On the one hand, I wish this book had stuck more closely to the historical truth, because I think most juvenile readers won't have the historical background to separate the fact from fiction on their own. On the other hand, the fictionalization of the queens' lives into this story allows the author to create a more simplified story, and a more cautiously hopeful ending, than the historical truth. I'd certainly advise readers who enjoy this book to dive deeper into Tudor history-- there's a lot of great historical fiction about there about young Princess Elizabeth and Queen Mary.

This was fun. I liked the art style and it wasn't quite what I was expecting, but it was easy to see the historical parallels and it added some fun twists to the history. While not particularly amazing, it was still a delightful, quick read, with a lot of Realness and I'd be up for reading more graphic novels in this series.