Review: Is anyone who they seem?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2013
This is a decent enough "fluffy" story for an afternoon read if you can slog through a slew of what I assume are translation errors from the original Italian. (The Italian food references made my mouth water though.)The Amazon synopsis lays out almost too much of the storyline so that it is not a spoiler to mention the solution to the mystery involves a few references to the afterlife and dream sequences.The typos should really be corrected---it is distracting to read costumers for customers, inflected for inflicted, inexistent for nonexistent; there are wrong versions of nouns for adjectives, etc. such as peacefulness for peaceful, methodic for methodical, happed for happening and strange misusage like "thank you for accepting to see me," "why did someone have it out for her husband," etc. plus downright homophonic errors  (gage for gauge) or wrong tense: choose for chose and know for known, etc. not to mention occasional spelling errors for  Biedermeier and thought.Translation/editing missteps aside, the entire premise was based on deeming an inexplicable action by her otherwise trustworthy husband as a lie after 35 years of an exceptional marriage. This felt like a rushed assumption that did not ring true.The characters were sympathetically developed as relationship issues merged toward resolution. The story was sufficiently intriguing, however, that I would consider reading the author's next work in hopes that the translation is better done.