Beverle Graves Myers
Författare till Interrupted Aria (Baroque Mystery)
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Cruel Music (Tito Amato, #3) 2 exemplar
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- Verk
- 8
- Medlemmar
- 216
- Popularitet
- #103,224
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 7
- ISBN
- 59
He is welcomed by his sister with joy but his father shows him the cold shoulder and his younger sister suffers from mysterious attacks.All is not well with his family.
In contrast his career is off to a splendid start and going very well until the reigning prima donna is murdered by poison The prime suspect is his friend Felice and now he has 5 Days to prove hes innocent or the penalty will prove very harsh. read:execution.
I Went into this hoping that it would be one of those books that are so awesome it just makes you remember it and also the 18th Century is a favorite era of mine so it was all set to be that.
I did find the idea of a castrato hero intriguing and the author showed delicacy while Writing about the feelings and plight of maincharacter.People either held him in awe or disgust or in some cases showed an unhealthy interest in him because of his affliction.
At times the Writing style reminded me of the Falco series by [a:Lindsey Davis|24844|Lindsey Davis|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1269886022p2/24844.jpg].But while those books also have their dark moments there its relieved by some light moments and dry wit. Interrupted aria was just too bleak and I felt the mystery as it was got sidestepped in favor of going into lenghty detail of the finer points of opera and singing techniques that dragged it down.
The ending was also a downer and had me depressed because of what happened to his sister. :(… (mer)