Review: The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty by Natalie Livingstone
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3 out of 5 stars - It was ok

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this advanced copy. All opinions expressed are my own.

While this book was extremely interesting, it seemed to be written more like a research paper than a book. I also admit that I kept getting lost as to who was who and in which generation. Reading on Kindle, I was unable to utilize the family trees provided in the beginning of the book. They were just too small.

Before reading this book, I had never heard of the Rothschild family. Whether it's because I'm not European or Jewish, or for some other reason, There was a lot of new information for me to learn. I had no idea that the reason so many Jewish families got into banking was because the Christians could not loan money with interest.

Perhaps I'll look more into this family after reading this book, but I'm not sure I'd recommend this particular book to someone with no background of the family.

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