by Marina Fiorato
I really wanted to like this book. I really did. If I hadn't committed myself to reading this book for Historical Mystery Monopoly, I would have given up about half way in. I had promised myself this was going to be the year I worked on my inability to put aside books that don't hold my interest. In...
I have had a couple of late nights reading this and I loved it. It isn't great art,but it's a rollicking good yarn, a sort of fifteenth century italian Da Vinci Code. Great fun..(but if you don't like bad language, give it a miss..the main character has a heck of a mouth on her..)
I have had a couple of late nights reading this and I loved it. It isn't great art,but it's a rollicking good yarn, a sort of fifteenth century italian Da Vinci Code. Great fun..(but if you don't like bad language, give it a miss..the main character has a heck of a mouth on her..)
Wow! What a fantastic book! The author takes the painting by Botticelli and creates a whole story around it. Her characters come to life very quickly and move through this twisted plot, twisted and unlikely. Nothing really terrible happens to the main characters, but lots of pretty bad stuff happens...
Lettoin italiano: La ladra di primavera
This was sort of like historical fiction meets Dan brown. The story centers around Sandro Botticelli's masterpiece Primavera, the hidden clues within etc. It kept me interested for the most part, but could have probably lost about 50 pages in the middle as it seemed to drag a bit. Overall a good rea...
In 1482 Florence, Luciana Vetra is a 16 year old orphaned prostitute, when one of her clients asks her to sit for the famous painter, Sandro Botticello. Mad that she isn’t paid for her time spent modeling, she steals a small copy of the painting and mayhem ensues. Before she realizes the power of wh...
I did enjoy the book but there was some things that annoyed me. I thinks the way it was written was too modern. I'm not sure but I doubt people that time said "What the fuck" or "For fuck's sake". And while I don't generally mind swearing, I didn't like how she constantly used the word fuck. And I w...
(3.5 stars) A map of murder.....Or is it something else altogether? The basis of the novel and the mystery is Boticelli's famous painting Primavera. Asked to sit as "Flora" prostitute Luciana Vetra unknowingly says something that sends the artist into a fit of anger, and sent off without pay she dec...
I'm delighted I was chosen in the giveaway! Can't wait to get it. ... Received 12-2-09.
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