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Inamorata by Megan Chance
5.0

This was a blind purchase and I'm glad that I bought it. Inamorata is a book that I honestly thought was going to be a typical story of temptation and breathless, bodice ripping descriptions of Venice. I was expecting the usual love story of forbidden love and a vampire that breaks its heart over mortals.

Nope. Not what I got and I am glad for it. I loved the literary and artistic allusions and the nature of desire and creativity and talent. Keats and Byron get name-dropped into the story of a set of twins who are running from scandal and their pasts and land in Venice.

They meet Odile Leon, who is obviously mysterious and the key to the rest of the plot and her nemesis, Nicholas Dane. These two are great antagonists to each other and the plot moves along well and smoothly, even with the changing points of view.

Well done and I enjoyed how it lulls you into thinking you know the story when you don't.