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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
I feel like such a bad girl when I don't finish book club selections. Bad girls, bad girls - whatcha gonna do when they come for you. Shouldn't a mystery be mysterious? This is super slow-paced and flat-out
B-O-R-I-N-G.
B-O-R-I-N-G.
I will be sad when I catch up on this series and I have to wait for the next one. Once again Leon prose is descriptive and oilluminating. I was brought into what seemed the all to real workld of Venice. The story developed through the humanity if the characters, at times leading me to forget I was reading a mystery.
The mojor crime of the novel occurs late, and Brunetti maneuvers through the world ofVenetien politics to see this story reach its conclusion, a conclusion with which I was both satisfied and dissatified with for all the right reasons.
The mojor crime of the novel occurs late, and Brunetti maneuvers through the world ofVenetien politics to see this story reach its conclusion, a conclusion with which I was both satisfied and dissatified with for all the right reasons.
Another great outing from Ms. Leon. I'm fascinated by the way her cases unfold so slowly and carefully. Lots of interesting information on glassblowing and a bit of a look at Brunetti's past.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
I enjoyed the excurse to the glass manufacturers on Murano. It was interesting to learn what goes into making glass pieces.
Brunetti going and asking questions without a crime being committed and sneaking around Patta was fun. Also his family helping hin with the case.
It's shocking on how many different ways environmental pollution is covered up.
Brunetti going and asking questions without a crime being committed and sneaking around Patta was fun. Also his family helping hin with the case.
It's shocking on how many different ways environmental pollution is covered up.
Mijn eerste Donna Leon, dit is echt fijn vakantieleesmateriaal. Lekker met de Commissario over de grachten van Venetië varen, wijn drinken, kunst kijken en ergens nog een misdaad oplossen.
One of her best. Great atmosphere and a great plot that continues until the very last word.
Like a winter vacation to Venice. the glass blowers of Murano figure prominently, I hardly recall the details of the murder to solve; but that's not really why I read Donna Leon books. It's for venice, and the food, and the drink, and the characters.
dark
tense
medium-paced
The author spends about 150 pages setting up the story and introducing a bunch of characters (most of them are rather unlikeable and several of them are absolutely unnecessary to the story and aren't mentioned again either), though to be frank it would probably not matter if you skipped those, because apart from that *nothing* that's important for the story happens and you'd probably be able to follow what happens then without having those characters introduced to you. This would be okay-ish if the book had 700 pages, but not if it's practically half the book
After that there's finally a body and the story picks up speed for a while, until it returns to seemingly endless pages about how the ecosystem is destroyed and again, nothing happening for a while until the author wraps the story up in the last 30 pages or so.
After that there's finally a body and the story picks up speed for a while, until it returns to seemingly endless pages about how the ecosystem is destroyed and again, nothing happening for a while until the author wraps the story up in the last 30 pages or so.