Il mistero di rue des Saints-Pères

I picked this up at a jumble sale in Britain last year after returning from a weekend in Paris and thought it might be all right. Then, as I started reading it, I realised it was written by two real-life Parisian bookshop owners, it featured a Japanese character, a bunch of tabloid journalists, run- Leggi tutto

I dnf'ed this book. Or rather I skipped a lot of it. I read the first 30-40% and the last 10%, but I didn't even skim the middle. I just couldn't anymore. It's not that I hated anything about this book, just that I didn't care at all for any of the characters. Not did I find the mystery particularly Leggi tutto

Romanzo di nessuna velleita' letteraria, dalla trama gialla che all'inizio promette quasi bene, prosegue in un calando sconfortante e termina anche peggio. L'ambientazione poteva essere il punto di forza, stante l'inconsistenza dei personaggi ma si e' rivelata anch'essa superficiale e poco coinvolge Leggi tutto

It was barely okay. Read (or tried to) for book club. The most interesting thing about the book was the setting. Paris during the World's Fair- what a great place to visit in a book! Some of the little details, like the Golden Book which people signed to prove that they had ascended the brand-new Ei Leggi tutto

3.5 Molto carino, un po' leggero forse, ma è molto particolare per l'ambientazione storica e geografica. Siamo infatti all'esposizione universale di Parigi del 1889, quella per cui è sorta la torre Eiffel. ^.^