This is described as an historic romp, and that's exactly what it is, a romp. Problem is, after a certain point it becomes one romp too many and I struggled to stay invested.

That said, the characters and their relationships are well written enough to keep me caring until the end. I think the book does a decent job too of incorporating people who are usually excluded from historical fiction, and actually making use of that, so it's not just tokenism, or someone looking for a pat on the back for diversity.