A review by aotora
City of Flowers by Mary Hoffman
2.0
This one was my least favourite of the first three in the series. It wasn't bad... but it wasn't good either. The story was good and there were some parts that I really enjoyed like the duel between the Duke and Luciano and the slaughter during the weddings - but then there were also parts that seemed to go by way too fast.
After the slaughter we don't know if Gaetano will live or not .... for a few pages than he is suddenly alive and well and able to walk.
I also didn't care for most of the characters in this one aside from Sandro, I almost wish that Sandro was the focus instead of Sky because his story was more interesting than Sky's. We had Luciano that had cancer and was dying, we had Georgia who was relentlessly bullied by her step brother and used Talia as an escape from that - then we get Sky... who has a sick mother and a father he doesn't know - which would've been fine if his mother didn't get well and good really fast- I wish that she remained sick through most of the book and get better at the end, that would've made Sky a little bit more interesting and a better protagonist.
I loved Luciano and Arianna in the previous book - but I didn't like Arianna in this one- and I hated their side plot in this book. They are in love, they don't say it to each other, they get engaged at the end- I was waiting for them to finally get together and married and that took way too long.
Some of the book really dragged on and it took me way too long to finish this one when I flew through the previous two. It's not a bad book but it's missing something compared to the other two.
Here's hoping that the next three are better.
After the slaughter we don't know if Gaetano will live or not .... for a few pages than he is suddenly alive and well and able to walk.
I also didn't care for most of the characters in this one aside from Sandro, I almost wish that Sandro was the focus instead of Sky because his story was more interesting than Sky's. We had Luciano that had cancer and was dying, we had Georgia who was relentlessly bullied by her step brother and used Talia as an escape from that - then we get Sky... who has a sick mother and a father he doesn't know - which would've been fine if his mother didn't get well and good really fast- I wish that she remained sick through most of the book and get better at the end, that would've made Sky a little bit more interesting and a better protagonist.
I loved Luciano and Arianna in the previous book - but I didn't like Arianna in this one- and I hated their side plot in this book. They are in love, they don't say it to each other, they get engaged at the end- I was waiting for them to finally get together and married and that took way too long.
Some of the book really dragged on and it took me way too long to finish this one when I flew through the previous two. It's not a bad book but it's missing something compared to the other two.
Here's hoping that the next three are better.