How much fun is it to read about drama in King Louis XV's court with the delivery of The Importance of Being Earnest? So much fun.

What a strange, strange book. The heroine is obnoxious and the romance, as it were, is ethically uncomfortable. I'm not sure I'd call it a romance. Two people are married at the end, but it's really a side plot.

But the suspense of wondering how the inevitable would actually play out (I didn't guess correctly), combined with a bizarre protagonist (he's a bit Poirot-like, I think), a fair amount of wit, and of course lengthy descriptions of court attire, made this entirely worth reading.

Glad I took the oddball recommendation.