Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. I really enjoyed this! I knew nothing about Eugénie de Montijo and she sounds like an.... interesting woman.

This was such a great book! It was so good that it read more like a story than a biography.

Empress Eugenie was a woman ahead of her time that lived an almost fairy tale like story. Growing up she was surrounded around people who cultivated her into the person she was. Eugenie was a force to be reckon with.

I could not put this book down! I didn’t even know that France had another empire after King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. So this book was informative and helped broaden my history knowledge.

Eugenie was a wild child of her generation with ideas that tended to clash with the French governing body at that time. She was a woman who refused to stay silent and stand in the shadows.