The world conjured up is of the rich and elite but makes clear that that world is not as perfect as it might at first appear. The characters made me feel I had a window on something I could never be part of, but as things progressed would probably choose not to be anyway.
The plot moves at different speeds at various times, so this book is great if you love lots of dialogue, but not so good if you are into fast action sequences - except the end which was an exciting surprise. To my mind, the style of writing relied too heavily on conversation and internal thoughts rather than narrative, plot and events. Some things are touched on but remained unclear once they had served the purpose of the story, whereas I would have liked to have read more detail.
With the story told from Luca's point of view I did not feel the other characters were painted in sufficient detail to engage with them or care about what they thought, felt and would suffer.
The plot moves at different speeds at various times, so this book is great if you love lots of dialogue, but not so good if you are into fast action sequences - except the end which was an exciting surprise. To my mind, the style of writing relied too heavily on conversation and internal thoughts rather than narrative, plot and events. Some things are touched on but remained unclear once they had served the purpose of the story, whereas I would have liked to have read more detail.
With the story told from Luca's point of view I did not feel the other characters were painted in sufficient detail to engage with them or care about what they thought, felt and would suffer.