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A review by laura_anderer
The Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye
2.0
This book felt like utter chaos. Starting with a personal mechanical pet peeve: the conversations were not distinct from the rest of the text. When someone was talking there were no quotation marks— they were just added into the thick of a paragraph. At first glance, the concept of this story was very intriguing. But, a 25 year old woman uprooting her life to move to Rome on the search for some random customer she never met & essentially stalking him resulted in a strange story. It could’ve been more interesting, but a lot of it was just boring and hard to get through.
I think it could’ve been a very intriguing coming of age story, where Chloe moves herself to Italy on the premise of finding out how Vietri lived his life, but that was not the story at all. It also seemed odd that she chose to stalk someone of no relation whatsoever; she could have at the very least looked for someone in her own family. Chloe also just seemed unlikable altogether, from cheating on her boyfriend to the way she treats her mentally ill mother.
I did enjoy all of the history of Italy included.
I think it could’ve been a very intriguing coming of age story, where Chloe moves herself to Italy on the premise of finding out how Vietri lived his life, but that was not the story at all. It also seemed odd that she chose to stalk someone of no relation whatsoever; she could have at the very least looked for someone in her own family. Chloe also just seemed unlikable altogether, from cheating on her boyfriend to the way she treats her mentally ill mother.
I did enjoy all of the history of Italy included.