Review: Heads off to Ginger Myrick's gripping Account of Marie Antoinette
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2014
I admit to never having been partial to Marie Antoinette, even though I knew she never made the statement 'let them eat cake.'  i simply am of the opinion that she should have fled to Austria with her children when there was still an avenue of escape open, and that she owed it to her progeny to same them.  Foremost in my review is my realization that not even Ginger Myrick could make me like this woman. Next comes the second challenge Ginger Myrick faces in capturing my enthusiasm.  In essence,  with the abundance of horror in the current world, I do not wish to let it invade my leisure time, and generally, I avoid reading even the best the genre offers.  Thus, it is with great surprise that I declare Insatiable to be, in my opinion,  Ginger's Myrick's masterpiece.  While I cannot call it my favorite among her books, because I am still repulsed by the horror and the violence, Mrs. Myrick has managed to create an almost plausible answer to the degree of brutality of the citizens of Paris.  If anything, the mort vivant of Ginger's book exercise more restraint than the mob that actually invaded the Tuilleries  and mutilated the royals within their grasp.  I rank this book a four star not because of my personal prejudices, but because at times I found it to drag along, much as Antoinette's life suffered  lackluster spells during Axel Fersen's absences. This is when I wish there were a rating of 5-!  There are probably 50 pages I might have excised.I agree wholeheartedly with other reviewers who have cautioned readers to heed Ginger's caveat.  This is not a fictionalized biography of Marie Antoinette, but a very macabre interpretation of what might have happened in the parallel universe of the macabre.  if you are looking for a life of Maria Antoinette, this is not it. This is , however, the book which  to my mind most assuredly establishes Ginger Myrick as a serious, talented and fearless author whose imagination knows no prison.  I am proud to consider her a colleague.