Badass warrior women, strong, clever queens, and best of all it's all true... Rani Lakshmi is justly uber-famous in India but little-known in the West. Not surprising since she was on the losing side of the Sepoy Mutiny. 
 I couldn't put it down. There aren't any huge unexpected twists-- again, it's pretty true-to-life-- but it was an enormously satisfying read.