Review: Architecture Lover's Dream - Vivid Descriptions & Intriguing Plot
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
A book by Jennifer Blake never fails to be worthwhile, carefully and invitingly crafted.  She is masterful at vivid descriptions and makes you feel that you are there with the book's characters.  This novel takes place in Venice where Celina Steadman has been hired from the USA to appraise the art collection belonging to a consummate old-world Italian gentleman, Conte Massimo Palladino, who resides in an historic palatial Venetian dwelling.  Massimo is charming but sparks fly when his son, Lucca, encounters Celina.  Therein follows an entrancing love story and an experience of being in Venice that makes you feel as though you can see, smell, and touch everything.  It's the next best thing to actually being there yourself.  Add a delightful romance (Oh where does Jennifer find these men!), conflict, and a little mystery and it makes for a story you will remember and enjoy for a long while.