Overall rating and opinion of "The Girl Who Knew da Vinci" by Belle Ami
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Re: Overall rating and opinion of "The Girl Who Knew da Vinci" by Belle Ami
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The author was comfortable with romance and managed to write a male lead that didn't give me the creeps, so that's cool.
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The one thing that I did not particularly care for is the books title. Although, part of the storyline was based on recovering the wedding portrait of which Leonardo da Vinci, I believe the story to be more about the undying forbidden love that Fioretta and Giuliano had for one another. Though, the immortality of that love consist and or exist was because of da Vinci's painting and he was in fact Fioretta's best friend, the overall story had nothing to do with the actuality of knowing Leonardo da Vinci more as him just the famous artist who created the picture that the characters were in search of.
Yet, even with the title being a little offset to what the book is actually about. I still believe that it deserves a 4 out of 4 rating.
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Predictably of a novel or story is always sometime that a good author has to guard against while at the same time not making it too difficult for an average reader to follow twists and turns of the novel.I can relate to the predictability you felt within the story.Jillpillbooknerd wrote: ↑13 Jun 2018, 17:10 I just finished the book today and I have some feelings about it. While I liked the concept of the book as it progressed I got bored with it pretty quickly. After about 50% through it was pretty plain to see that Alex and Angela were going to figure out the mystery and end up happily ever after together. I would have liked this much better had the romance not been a part of it. Why does every good concept have to end up with the main characters getting together? I started off liking The Girl Who Knew da Vinci but ended up figuring out the plot and the ending before I was even close to finishing the book. I'm not sure I would recommend this or not.
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I share your disappointment as I didn't think there was anything really thrilling about the novel. The language used in the erotic parts was what I found disappointing, it was just unromantic.DancingLady wrote: ↑17 Jun 2018, 11:12 I am just about to start writing my review, so I'll be revealing my star rating there, but in brief, I liked the mystery and adventure of it most. Not surprisingly, the sex was my absolute least favorite part, and given how much there was, it ultimately made the book a pretty big disappointment for me. I would not recommend it in person honestly, because the fact that I finished reading it would likely reflect poorly on my character in the eyes of certain people in my life. I will probably recommend it with a warning about excessive adult content that the reader may want to skip over. The bottom line for me, I had very high expectations since this book is the book of the month, thus it was pretty disappointing since the overall story was not outstanding and there was such a drawback with the sex scenes.
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