--MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD-- I'm not much of a YA novels reader, but this book was suggested by a friend and deals with an alternate universe version of Italy, so I was curious to give it a check. Much to my surprise, I ended enjoying it quite a bit. The world building is really interesting and well...
I remember really, really enjoying this book when I first read it at age 12. It kind of blew my mind, and I was so excited that I recommended it to a couple of friends.... who started to read but quickly came to the conclusion that this was an awful book, and they told me so. It was a little scarrin...
Cute. That a the first thing that comes to mind when I think of this book. Cute and mostly harmless. Adorable and sweet, but unfortunately just not too memorable. Like a decent fast food meal, it's satisfying but not too nutritious.This is a story of a teenage boy dying from cancer in contemporary E...
I read this book about seven years ago, and when I was younger it was one of my favourites. I read this first book almost as an accident as I only found out about it, when I saw it sitting in one of my friends bags while she was taking it home again after another friend had borrowed it. I asked if I...
City of Masks is the story of fifteen year old cancer patient, Lucien who has the power to use his magical time traveling notebook to enter a parallel universe when he sleeps. There, he becomes Luciano in sixteenth century pseudo-Venice in a city called Bellazza where he finds adventures, new friend...
The Stravaganza series is based on a really interesting fantasy concept: a select few people can travel between two worlds, the world as we know it and an alternate version of Renaissance Italy. The action takes place in another Venice, called Bellezza. This is the stravagation the series title refe...
Teenage Lucien is seriously ill. Chemotherapy has left him too weak to do anything but lie in bed and dream. But everything changes when an antique notebook he is given by his father transports him to sixteenth century Belezzza, an alternative Venice in another dimension. Here his illness is left be...
I read this book because of a recommendation of a GR's friend. I'd been looking for it for a long time so I was really excited to read it.The plot was interesting and it's impossible not to fall in love with Talia. The book is rich with details about it. I liked people's devotion for their city and ...
recently re-read this series for the hundredth (or so) time, and once again the story did not fail to draw me in. Original, fascinating, exciting - love it.
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