Just finished the Accursed Kings series by Maurice Druon.
Well, not finished finished because I left off at Chapter 4 of the last - 7th - book, The King Without a Kingdom, but I just can't go on because it turned out the whole thing was written as a first person narration. And if I wanted first person narration I would just listen mine.
All in all it was a nice experience, he is a good writer, I very enjoyed how he presented his characters, how he can change the reader's feelings toward them. In one book he can build sympathy for one and in the next creating an antagonist out of him so the next protagonist can shine instead. Or the other way around, a first seemingly despicable person he can make a likable or at least understandable by showing his motivations, his struggle.
I dunno how deep was Druon's research in history when he prepared for each volume. How much he made up, how much actual history made colorful with his own imagination, or how much he found ready if folklore and popular tradition and how much of it he loaned for his work.
The events are playing in Kingdom of France in the first half of the 14th century, the buildup for the Hundred Years War, and the main characters are from the court of France and England, and a couple of fictional ones. The books are deep in intrigue and anyone who plays and enjoys Crusader Kings II almost should be a mandatory read.