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Inamorata by Megan Chance
5.0

While I'm normally left feeling underwhelmed by the KindleFirst books, "Inamorata" was the glorious exception to the rule. Megan Chance writes so vividly that, like Sophie, she makes a story come to life. If anyone else tried to write this book, it would be an interesting (perhaps too ambitious) concept, but Chance had made me believe the angels and demons exist in the edges of this world, in the same shadows seen by Sophie and Joseph Hannigan and Nicholas Dane.

This book is pure magic, drawing a reader in quickly and then holding them captive to the very end. Venice is drawn so clearly that you can see it, in all it's old renaissance beauty. As I think about the story as a stand-alone work, it's entertaining, but not perfect. However the writing more than redeems it. When you put the two together, the result is a sort of enchantment.

I rarely reread Kindle books... That's something I reserve for my physical books, because you have a connection with them. Yet I think I'll come back to "Inamorata," because it's just so powerfully compelling.