givebooksgirl reviewed on
Helpful Score: 2
The intriguing secrets woven throughout The Birth of Venus, kept me happily holed up for two days I didnt answer the phone or the door or even cook a single meal. I was deliciously devouring the words in Dunants historical fiction novel set in one of the most amazing cities and time period Renaissance Florence. The passion, innocence and desires of Alessandra Cecchi, a character we see beginning in her teenage youth and follow into womanhood, lead her to consequences and choices I could never have predicted. What she wants, what she gets and what she ends up with leave me with a broad range of emotions - I am tattered, disillusioned, satisfied and have a sense of longing, delight and forlornness all at the same time. This books has it all love, betrayal, politics, religion, war, art, relationships and scandal.
