The Widow Queen By Elzbieta Cherezinska is a historical fiction novel. The story follows a Polish princess and her siblings as their father uses all them to spread and take over Europe. 

 

This is a super informative book about a family that really was an important part of European history. I liked learning about this family but this book was a little big and too informative at times. It was hard to continue. I think this book could have been split. The siblings point of view would have worked better as their own novellas or novels. Putting everything together made for a long read. 

 

Three stars for just an interesting story but this needed to be shortened. Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan-Tor/Forge and Elzbieta Cherezinska for the free copy. This was an honest review.