Book Review

Unicorn's Blood
by Patricia Finney

This historical novel was interesting and fairly exciting. It follows the hunt for a book that contains admissions that could seriously endanger Queen Elizabeth I. The novel has a cast of interesting characters, including Thomasina, the Queen's muliercula (dwarf entertainer), several of Walsingham's spies and inquisitors, and an aged, alcoholic, ruined former nun. Into the intricate plot Finney weaves some sharp commentary on the cruel hypocrisy and paradoxes of a patriarchal society's view of female sexuality.