I don't know how I've missed reading this - my favorite era of history and it's certainly not that it's not well-known! I loved this. Great characterization - to the point that the characters stayed with me even when I wasn't reading. I carried the book everywhere with me in the hopes that I'd be able to grab a few minutes here and there to read it. It's one of those books that I couldn't put down, even though I was putting other things aside to finish it.

I can't wait to read the sequel.