Overall, I was very disappointed with this book.

Wallis is written very one-sided - she's a shallow gold-digger and not much else. No one has just one side to them. The book isn't well-researched at all, there are a lot of historical inaccuracies (that I looked up just to make sure it wasn't me who was wrong, and I don't mean I did my research on the internet). There are some details in the book about Edward the III that are fascinating, but I'm pretty sure they are entirely made up, but who's to know because there is no author's note informing us of this fact - perhaps acceptable when this book was first published, but not in today's book world.

I also found the book dragged throughout the first half - it was all I could do to read the long, long pages of Wallis' childhood and the drama she lived through. There is no doubt Wallis led an interesting life, but we aren't reviewing Wallis' life here, we are reviewing a historical fiction book that had too much imagination, not enough facts, and definitely was lacking in setting the scene so you felt like you were in another world.