Sunday, March 22, 2015

Review of The Barefoot Queen by Ildefonso Falcones

I felt this book was good but longer than necessary. For the first half I loved it but then it seemed to drag on making me feel like I was reading the same thing over and over again. 
The story is about a free slave who finds herself in Spain. Even though she is free and has papers to say so she does everything that others told her to do. 
Then she is found by a Gypsy man who hears her sing & he brings her into the gypsy world where she quickly becomes friends with his granddaughter Miligros. 
Just when she feels at home the gypsies are rounded up and thrown into jails leaving Caridad on her own. 
The second half of the book concentrats on the struggle between the Garcia & Vega family and how everything unfolds after Miligros is promised to Pedro Garcia in marriage in what she thinks is hope for the families but the Garcia's see it as getting power over the Vega's. 
I have never wanted a character to die as much as Pedro Garcia & felt I was reading just to get to that point. 
I received this book free in exchange for an honest review from blogging for books.