![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Poison is an entertaining book that is hard to put down. She is surrounded by danger and people with uncertain motives but manages to find her way through and even save some lives in the process. Despite her own misdeeds, Francesca is a heroine it is difficult not to root for. In Poison, Sara Poole delves into the dangerous and corrupt world of the Renaissance in Rome and brings it to life. She also must consider that there are many dangerous men who would not only like to see Borgia and Francesca dead, but all the Jews of Rome, even all throughout Christendom. But first there is the matter of the current pope to deal with, and Francesca becomes more involved than she would like, fearing she is endangering her very soul. Borgia himself is determined to ascend in rank, planning to become the next pope. When he is brutally murdered, she does some killing of her own to become the cardinal’s new poisoner, a highly unusual position for a woman of the time.įrancesca must protect the cardinal, Rodrigo Borgia, from others bent on coming to power in the Church. Francesca Giordano has been raised by her father, the poisoner for a powerful cardinal of the Catholic Church in 1492 Rome. ![]()
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