What a shame. I liked it until I hated it. On page 194 I had to close it, give up on it. It changed tone completely, got kind of abstract and stream-of-consciousness-y. Oh well. I'm sorry.I liked the era and the setting but not enough to find out what happened to Adriana Nardi or the Murdoch fami...
Book #7 of 2009I did not like this book much. I borrowed it because most of it is set on the island of Elba. I remember Elba being a magical place where I spent a weekend the summer I stayed in Italy. The book though, was rather dull. The perspective switched between Adriana Nardi, 10 years old -...
After reading Follow Me, I had very high expectations for the remainder of Scott's books. In this collection of short stories, her writing really focuses on character sketches more than narrative, despite that fact that her ability to weave together plot lines into a cohesive story is second-to-n...