The Tiger Queens by Stephanie Marie Thornton

A ruthless Queen where everyone is her pawn and how she manipulates her pawns is without mercy. She personifies a power hungry political in my opinion. I would like to start with his mother-Olympias. However, Thornton brings us a new story- a story of the strong women who surrounded him. I have read enough of him and his atrocities. Not because I wanted to read another story of Alexander the Great, mind you. When this book came available to review, I knew I couldn’t pass this up. And long after Alexander is gone, the women who are his champions, wives, and enemies will fight to claim his legacy… But his victories are tarnished by losses on the battlefield and treachery among his inner circle. Within a few short years, Alexander controls an empire more vast than the civilized world has ever known. And after Alexander conquers her tiny kingdom, Roxana, the beautiful and cunning daughter of a minor noble, wins Alexander’s heart…and will commit any crime to secure her place at his side. Far away, crafty princess Drypetis will not stand idly by as Alexander topples her father from Persia’s throne. Instead, it is Alexander’s boyhood companion who rides with him into war while Thessalonike remains behind. His spirited younger half-sister, Thessalonike, yearns to join her brother and see the world.

But he cannot ascend to power, and keep it, without the women who help to shape his destiny. The Conqueror’s Wife: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Stephanie Thorntonģ30s, B.C.E., Greece: Alexander, a handsome young warrior of Macedon, begins his quest to conquer the ancient world.

The Tiger Queens by Stephanie Marie Thornton