I also wished da Vinci had been fleshed out more. His role was so minimal that he was almost a throwaway character.kfwilson6 wrote: ↑13 Jun 2018, 20:17I enjoyed this too. It makes me think of the movie Ever After. I think that is a major part of why I wish there had been more about Fioretta and Giuliano. I actually just wanted to see more about da Vinci. He is portrayed really well in that particular movie and it's always sort of made me imagine him as brilliant, awkward, and quirky.Bookmermaid wrote: ↑10 Jun 2018, 20:51 I am currently reading the book but not particularly enjoying the paranormal events. However, I enjoy reading about the imagined lifestyles of the great artist Da Vinci and his close friends.
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I'm not so sure it would have worked without the paranormal elements. Perhaps more development would have been done with Alex and Angela's relationship? After all their relationship needed more development to be realistic.bookowlie wrote: ↑01 Jun 2018, 09:20 Did you enjoy the paranormal elements of the story? Would the plot have worked as well without the supernatural tie-ins between the three time periods? I don't usually like this genre, but the author did a good job of using it to advance the plot. I think the story would have had a more serious, realistic tone without the paranormal aspects.
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Yes, overblown is a good word. A little paranormal goes a long way, in my opinion. Like you, I would have like to see Angela's art history expertise highlighted a little more to solve the case. Due to the past-life regression, she could have basically solved the case even if she had been an accountant.Dael Reader wrote: ↑16 Jun 2018, 07:55 I usually enjoy a touch of paranormal in a novel, but it seems too ridiculously overblown in this one. To my knowledge, reincarnation and past life regression does not work this way. What Angela seems to be experiencing is some type of spirit possession. Which could be an interesting take. But the thing that irritates me is that we are supposed to believe that Angela is a serious, intelligent, art historian, not a psychic. In fact, her supposed academic knowledge has nothing to do with the book at all, since everything is solved through the possession blackouts. I think it would have been a better book if we saw even a little academic work at play here. And the psychic information and/or flashbacks in time could have been done as dream sequences, not blackouts.
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