so-soI liked the idea of this book, but the execution did not deliver. This main character was difficult to feel engaged with, and the 1979 story line seemed very flat. Sad, because this could have been great.
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so-soFound this one a little frustrating - it's just so inconsistent! At points it seems to be building up to something amazing, at others it's tedious & pretentious. And ultimately it doesn't really deliver. It has shades of the Da Vinci Code but the various themes are a little confusing - the spy stuff left me cold. The ending is twee & too convenient. Didn't get to know either of the women well enough to really care about them. A miss for me.
pickI really enjoyed this duel timelines set in Rome, one present day and the other late 1907s. It has romance, a mystery, thriller and I learnt a bit about Italian politics of that era.
Lately I seem to have four books on the go, well at the moment it's these three. I finished The Feast today, which will review at a later date.
pickWhen I finished this my first thought was - what a smorgasbord! Lottie moves to Rome after securing a job & marrying Tom. As a chief archivist, she discovers a box of files on Nina Lawrence, a young British woman,, who was viciously murdered in the late 1970s. As Lottie reads about Nina‘s life, the lack of justice & increasing similarities they share, leads Lottie to wanting to provide Nina with justice. So well written. Loved. 5/5
so-soI thought this book was beautifully written, it‘s very descriptive and it easily transported me to Rome of the 1970s and the present day. Sadly, I wasn‘t as gripped as I thought I would be. The political side bogged me down somewhat and I found this part a little tedious. Consequently, it did take me a little while to get into this story and I found it quite a slow burner. All in all, a good book but too political for my tastes. 3.5⭐️ #Pigeonhole
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