When I finished my last book, late in the evening, I had no idea what I should read next or what I even wanted to read next. So I fumbled in the dark office for a book that looked interesting and I came up with The Creation of Eve. I had no idea what it was about but I like Eve and I like creation stories and I figured I’d like it enough to stick with it.
I did.
I might not have picked it up if I’d known right away that it was going to focus quite so much on the Spanish royal family in the early 1500s. I’m kind of glad I didn’t know because it’s really about Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola – one of the few successful female painters of that time. Interesting story – some fact swirled in with the fiction (similar to The Stolen One that I’d just finished reading before I picked this up.) I think it could have happened this way – it makes sense. Nothing rang untrue. I like that in a historical fiction.
This one is labeled as adult fiction but Cullen is a children/YA author and I suspect the with a little cajoling I could convince the almost 15 year old YA reader in the house to give this one a read.