Firsts thing first with this book is how quickly it draws you in and how soon the story kicks off. The author didn’t create unnessary chapters filled with unneeded story. The fact that this story is also set within the city of Rome instantly peaked my interest as a large majority of fiction novels are either set in the UK or the US.
The author wrote this novel brilliantly. It is extremely well adapted and the character arcs, especially Letty's really made me love the story even more. I love the way it changed perspective between characters as I feel it really helped to understand how both of the main characters were feeling and in doing this I found I became much more connected to them both. The issues they both faced within their lives and their problems with their family also helped identify that these characters are far from perfect as the location makes it seem.
I’m not one to read romance novels as I find them cliche and don’t draw me in enough to spend my time reading them although this has really opened my eyes to possibly reading more in the future. From the beginning there are clearly issues with the characters past lives that are hinted at but aren’t explored until further in although I personally thought that was a really good way for the author to keep us as readers interested.
The descriptions of the places they visited made you fall in love with it as if you yourself were there and that really helped create the backgrounded needed for this story.
The book touches on a lot of real life issues that add a sense of depth and seriousness to the characters lives and history.
I did get slightly lost around half way through the novel as the time frames begin to change and keeping up with where each characters are at can get confusing although the author doesn’t linger too much in these parts and it swiftly progressed on.
The story changes that the book took really dragged me in, whilst I was reading I did wonder which direction the story would take and wasn’t exactly sure how the writer could possibly carry it on for another 200 pages although she executed it very well and subtly added in twists and turns without creating a drama filled novel which would not fit the theme.
Despite all of the above points mentioned I am giving this book a 4/5* rating and that is purely due to the quiet patch that the story hit around the half way mark. I feel this dull part of the story really prevented it from being a 5* review although aside from that I do really recommend this book especially during this lockdown as it helps add a bit of happiness and joy to your life.
The author wrote this novel brilliantly. It is extremely well adapted and the character arcs, especially Letty's really made me love the story even more. I love the way it changed perspective between characters as I feel it really helped to understand how both of the main characters were feeling and in doing this I found I became much more connected to them both. The issues they both faced within their lives and their problems with their family also helped identify that these characters are far from perfect as the location makes it seem.
I’m not one to read romance novels as I find them cliche and don’t draw me in enough to spend my time reading them although this has really opened my eyes to possibly reading more in the future. From the beginning there are clearly issues with the characters past lives that are hinted at but aren’t explored until further in although I personally thought that was a really good way for the author to keep us as readers interested.
The descriptions of the places they visited made you fall in love with it as if you yourself were there and that really helped create the backgrounded needed for this story.
The book touches on a lot of real life issues that add a sense of depth and seriousness to the characters lives and history.
I did get slightly lost around half way through the novel as the time frames begin to change and keeping up with where each characters are at can get confusing although the author doesn’t linger too much in these parts and it swiftly progressed on.
The story changes that the book took really dragged me in, whilst I was reading I did wonder which direction the story would take and wasn’t exactly sure how the writer could possibly carry it on for another 200 pages although she executed it very well and subtly added in twists and turns without creating a drama filled novel which would not fit the theme.
Despite all of the above points mentioned I am giving this book a 4/5* rating and that is purely due to the quiet patch that the story hit around the half way mark. I feel this dull part of the story really prevented it from being a 5* review although aside from that I do really recommend this book especially during this lockdown as it helps add a bit of happiness and joy to your life.