Finding a 1700s painting with what looks to be your twin is a largely appealing plot line. She's ok at first, witty and outgoing, but because of her naivety and paranoia - mostly towards Luca - I was never able to really connect with her.Īs for the mystery elements - they're definitely intriguing. Even our main character, Violet, isn't very likeable. They all sort of blend together after a bit - swallowed by their matching arrogance.
In fact, I was never really sure if they were actually friends or more like frenemies. They don't get considerably close or draw any sort of group dynamic. Unfortunately, their friendship never seems to bloom. Especially how the girls band together against the vicious daughters it feels like the start of a great alliance. I enjoyed this quite a bit at the beginning. We also have fun times: Plenty of parties, dancing, bonding with the girls. Which is a shame because in this setting it had the potential for extreme adorability. I eventually got exasperated by this whole ordeal, never growing to like him, nor did I feel any sort of rush from their romance. Violet herself spends the bigger part of the book flip flopping between realizing he's a jerk, to fantasizing about him in the same instant. Sure it's got plenty of cute Italian boys, but when these boys go from sweet one minute to condescending the next, I was left feeling very irritated towards them - particularly Luca, the main love interest.
I was super in the mood for a fun, cute, romantic story with an engaging mystery mixed in - and in Italy to boot! It started on a good note, but unfortunately, it didn't turn out as expected. Agent: Deborah Schneider, Gelfman Schneider.I wanted to love this one. Light summer fun with much left unresolved for a planned sequel. While Henderson (Kiss Me Kill Me) offers a perky heroine in Violet and plenty of tantalizing romance, readers may be jarred when the dropped thread suddenly picks up again in the second half of the novel, and someone may be out to hurt Violet. As soon as Violet lands in Italy, however, the painting is forgotten in favor of girl drama, a bevy of cute Italian boys, jealous Italian girls, etiquette lessons, and reveling in the magical villa and lush countryside.
Rather than ask her mother, the 17-year-old engineers a trip to Tuscany for herself for a summer of finishing school that includes a visit to the Castello di Vesperi, the setting for the painting. British teenager Violet looks nothing like the rest of her family, so when she discovers a painting of a girl who shares her dark, Mediterranean features and who could be her twin, Violet can’t help wondering if she’s adopted.
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