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Summary: Tripe!
Review: I might have enjoyed this book when I was 12, but even then it would likely have been too implausible for me. The characters are shallowly developed, the plot cliched and totally unbelievable. Some writers could have pulled it off, but this book utterly fails to convice me that a spoiled rich young girl could ramble off to Paris, disguise herself as a man with nothing but the addition of a false mustache and be hired on as a Musketeer even though she's never lifted a sword in her life.Lots of talk about honor and oaths which no one really seems to care much about. Selfishness and silliness page after page and by the way, have you ever heard of new soldiers being able to take 6 week leave without a word to anyone and not being discharged for it? The hero does her wrong. He's vile and despicable but somehow we're supposed to believe that he actually came to love the girl. She vows revenge and goes after it in a round about sort of way and luck just happens to be with her time and again as she accomplishes her will. You never see why they love one another. Consequently the only reason you have to believe that they did love each other is because you're told so. The author is at great pains to make some kind of feminist statement thoughout the book but it's really just a reverse sexism where all men are buffoons. Worse yet, there are still more female Musketeers leading me to believe that this book is one in a series of equally implausible, unreadable tales. I won't be reading any of them.
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