A fun to read, well written and engrossing story that kept me hooked.
I liked the humour, the well crafted plot, the solid mystery and the fleshed out cast of characters.
I look forward to reading other books in this series.
Highly recommended.
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An engrossing and entertaining read that kept me hooked till the end.
I loved the dual timeline and how well the author make them work together, the well thought cast of characters and the setting.
The mystery is solid and it kept me guessing.
A very enjoyable read, highly recommended.
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I love this series and I loved this instalment.
It's a complex story full or read herring, twists, and turns with a complex mystery and solution that came as a surprise.
The cast of characters is well thought and interesting, the Venetian background is realistic and vivid.
I loved the plot that flows and I learned something new about Venice.
I also appreciated that the Italian phrases are all correct and the Italian characters are not stereotyped.
It was a gripping and entertaining read, highly recommended.
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It was an interesting and informative read. I never visited Norfolk and this book helped me to understand what to see and learn about their story.
An excellent and useful read, highly recommended.
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This is historical fiction at its best. It's a bleak, vivid and realistic story told by different POV and which pictures a world totally different from one can think it was.
It's world were social differences, greeds and human weakness are as strong as anywhere else and where who was a victim can become a perpetrator.
There's a crime but I think that the mystery part takes a back seat to the story being told.
Ms Nesbit is a great storyteller and the well researched story kept me hooked as it's enthralling and gripping.
An excellent read I couldn't put down, highly recommended.
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I'm sucker of everything related to King Arthur and I found this book informative and interesting.
It's full of facts and interesting ideas, well written and engrossing.
Highly recommended.
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I think it's well researched and interesting book but as I'm a sucker for Renaissance history I didn't find anything new or any exciting discovery.
Renaissance for a great time for art but it's also a very violent time with a war or a sack every other day and it's something I studied when I was 8 years old.
As for the slavery in Florence it's a maybe as Florence didn't have any ports and it would have been quite a problem for slavery.
Renaissance artists worked for people who are terrible if we judge them using our moral terms and that's a sort of miracle because we've got some of the greatest masterpiece in a dark and violent age.
I found this book interesting but I don't agree with the author views because we have to face what was and we cannot think that Alessandro Borgia or Ludovico il Moro were contemporary men. They were full of contradictions and they were people living in a specific age.
All the rest are hypothesis and maybe.
I recommend this book with all the issues because it's an interesting read but I think there are some issues.
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It's the second book I read in this series and I liked it.
It's an engrossing historical thriller, full of twists, with an interesting and well developed cast of characters.
The historical background is vivid and well researched, the mystery solid and it kept me guessing.
I look forward to the next instalment.
Recommended.
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It's quite an entertaining story but somehow it fails to deliver what was promised in the blurb.
The heroine's ideas are very modern and her character is interesting but I think there not enough chemistry between the MCs and some more humour would have helped.
It was an entertaining read and I think it can be recommended.
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This is a well written, well researched and entertaining book. I didn't know anything about Byron's family and it was interesting to learn about this extraordinary characters.
I liked how the book is told and how vivid the background is.
A very good read, recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.