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2.0�toiles sur 5 What was this book really about?, F�v 13 2002

Par	C. Miller "chrysalis13" (Irving, TX United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Italian Fever: A Novel (Paperback)

Well...reviewers for Amazon seemed to love or hate this novel, for the most part. I feel rather indifferent about it. Truthfully, I would probably never have finished it if I had actual work to do at my job!

Lucy Stark is a writer's assistant whose employer, writing abroad, suddenly turns up dead. She is left the task of putting his affairs in order and looking for the rest of a manuscript he has been working on. What starts out as a possible murder mystery quickly devolves into simply a diary of an American's time spent in Italy, replete with art appreciation, affairs and lots of cappucino consumption.

This novel didn't seem to follow its initial intentions or promises, although when the end finally comes, everything is wrapped up to some satisfaction. Had the book simply been to detail an American's experience abroad and what she learned about herself along the way, I would have understood how to read it. As it is, it seems the author did a little of this, a little of that, but I cannot complain about the quality of the language and the flow of the writing. My main feeling is that this book did not AFFECT me, the way I feel a good novel should. I probably won't think about it again.

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2.0�toiles sur 5 What book's flap copy didn't say, Jui 17 2001

Par	"lsewall" (Boston, MA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Italian Fever (Hardcover)

Why oh why can't I remember to ignore bookjacket flap copy? I might have appreciated "Italian Fever" more if it hadn't been touted as a murder mystery. I might have savored the love story for what it was, instead of wondering why it took up such a large portion of the book, and why the murder was left to the end to be explained away in an undramatic and therefore unsatisfying twist of perception. I might not have minded the ease with which Lucy abandons her "sleuthing" to follow her married lover to Roma, even though she hadn't found much out. I might not have been so surprised by her unexplained expertise and awe of Italian art, with which she impresses Italians, and tries to prove that despite her cowardly cynicism about D.V.'s commerical art, she is moved only by real beauty. Is this what the jacket flap copy should have explained, that the story is about a suspicious American who comes to Italy, the land of love, and learns that if she wasn't so suspicious she would be able to understand the truth--that things can be sadder or more pathetic than she ever imagined?

The reason the flap copy was confusing might have been that copywriters only read first chapters. Or it could be that they are really good at glossing over a story's problems.

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1.0�toiles sur 5 Italian Fever, F�v 6 2001

Par	J. Sauer "choosier reader" (Santa Fe) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Italian Fever: A Novel (Paperback)

This book could as well have been called "Pittsburg Fever" or "Tucson Fever" for all the relation it had to Italy. Surely there are ghosts there, and eccentric families, which were the only 2 things about this book that gave it any need to be placed in Italy. I believe the author gave it that name in order to seduce people into buying it, thinking they would be reading a story that related to that fascinating country or that had some unusual plot or theme that would not be believable in another locale. This book was basically a story about a woman with no sense at all who spent her whole time in Italy, expenses paid, holed up in an uninteresting villa with a married man who virtually ignored her when they were not in the villa. Not much suspense, not much imagination, not much to recommend it. One star is one too many. Don't waste your time or believe any of the good press about this one. Valerie Martin should be ashamed.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 ENTERTAINING AND EROTIC
Sometimes the "livin' is easy," and so is the readin' found in Valerie Martin's sixth novel Italian Fever. Read more

Publi� le Janv. 27 2001 par Gail Cooke

4.0�toiles sur 5 Sexy and gothic!
Having read Love: Short Stories, I couldn't imagine better writing from Valerie Martin. Boy, was I wrong! Read more

Publi� le Janv. 17 2001 par CoffeeGurl

5.0�toiles sur 5 I loved it!
Wow, I am so surprised to read the vituperative reviews about this novel--I admired it on many levels. Read more

Publi� le Ao� 24 2000 par Roxane Fletcher