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A review by emmdahl
The Taste of Light by Giovanna Siniscalchi
5.0
The Taste of Light was such a pleasure to romp around in! The reader is taken back to Portugal in 1872, where Pedro Daun is, to be honest, sulking after losing his childhood love to another man. Said the man's sister, Anne Maxwell, who ends up at Pedro’s estate on a mission from her sister-in-law. She happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and she and Pedro go on the run from a nasty fellow from Pedro's past. Thus ensues a quest to clear Pedro's name, and while doing so they also discover redemption and love.
I was intrigued by Pedro, the Count of Almonster from The True Purpose of Vines, and that intrigue was highly satisfied! He’s a complex character who feels he is irredeemable due to his past, both the abuse by his father and his military service in Mozambique.
Anne is such a sweet and loving character, but with a spine of steel. Exactly who Pedro needs!
Giovanna Siniscalchi proved in her debut novel, The True Purpose of Vines, that she writes with such imagery! I felt immersed in her stories and was being shown and taught history in a place I knew little about before.
I was intrigued by Pedro, the Count of Almonster from The True Purpose of Vines, and that intrigue was highly satisfied! He’s a complex character who feels he is irredeemable due to his past, both the abuse by his father and his military service in Mozambique.
Anne is such a sweet and loving character, but with a spine of steel. Exactly who Pedro needs!
Giovanna Siniscalchi proved in her debut novel, The True Purpose of Vines, that she writes with such imagery! I felt immersed in her stories and was being shown and taught history in a place I knew little about before.