Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

Will review at www.fantasyliterature.com.

I'm embarrassed by how long it took me to read this book. Easily, a month. So long that I had to hand in one copy from one library and borrow another copy in order to finish. I just kept putting it down and not picking it back up. Clearly, it was boring me. I should have been more on board! It's historical, it's got a sort-of fantasy element, it's just so damned...repetitive. I suspect now that I could have skipped some chapters and not missed a bit of action (I have never skipped chapters and I don't skim).
What I will take from this is the Monty Python-esque scenes of the parade of doctors, clergyman, and apprentices marching through the village to attend to the births and the idea that people with a great deal of money grow bored and will pay large amounts of money to witness horrible things.
Other than that, I'm just glad I finally finished the story.