Static and Silence: Anne Fortier

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along!

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
1. Grab your current read.
2. Let the book fall open to a random page.
3. Share with us two (2) "teaser" sentences from that page.
4. You also need to share the title of the book that you're getting your "teaser" from, that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given.
5. Spoilers not allowed! XD

The book I've been waiting for finally arrived and I'm diving into it immediately. Here's a teaser:

"In the eyes of the crowd she was no less beautiful now than she had been before, but it was evident to the painter - who had not seen her since the night before the fatal Palio - that hers had become the stony beauty of Athena, rather than the smiling charms of Aprhodite."

p. 247, Juliet by Anne Fortier

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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.

Teaser Tuesdays: Juliet

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