Musing Mondays is hosted by Miz B in Should be Reading.
For this week's musing:
What books are you wishing for MOST right now?
I'm currently wishing for the book Juliet by Anne Fortier. I have this fascination with Romeo and Juliet that's why I'm interested with anything about star-crossed lovers.
Here's one editorial review in Amazon:
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Fortier bobs and weaves between Shakespearean tragedy and popular romance for a high-flying debut in which American Julie Jacobs travels to Siena in search of her Italian heritage--and possibly an inheritance--only to discover she is descended from 14th-century Giulietta Tomei, whose love for Romeo defied their feuding families and inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Julie's hunt leads her to the families' descendants, still living in Siena, still feuding, and still struggling under the curse of the friar who wished a plague on both their houses. Julie's unraveling of the past is assisted by a Felliniesque contessa and the contessa's handsome nephew, and complicated by mobsters, police, and a mysterious motorcyclist. To understand what happened centuries ago, in the previous generation, and all around her, Julie relies on relics: a painting, a journal, a dagger, a ring. Readers enjoy the additional benefit of antique texts alternating with contemporary narratives, written in the language of modern romance and enlivened by brisk storytelling. Fortier navigates around false clues and twists, resulting in a dense, heavily plotted love story that reads like a Da Vinci Code for the smart modern woman.
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3 comments:
This book sounds quite good. Enjoy!!
CMash
Looks intriguing. Here's my Monday Musing
Personally, I can't think of one.
Maybe it that pile of TBR books waiting for me, begging to be read.
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