![]() ![]() She would think to herself, I love Paolo. A lot of the first half of the book was Venetia being wishy washy towards Paolo. I felt like the story didn’t actually start until she arrived. It took nearly 150 pages for our main character, Venetia, to finally get there. ![]() In regards to its slowness, I thought that it took way too long to get to Tuscany. So the first half of the book was 2 things: slow and cringe worthy. I love that poem mainly because Lana Del Rey recites it for her interlude on her Honeymoon album and I love Lana Del Rey. On an unrelated note, when I first saw that one of the epigraphs was an excerpt from Burnt Norton I was really happy. My final rating for this is 3 stars, which is the average of the two. This is an odd book for me to rate because I found the first half of the book to be 2 stars, but the second half was 4 stars. I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. To date, Hannah has published eight novels: Burning Embers, set in Kenya The Echoes of Love, set in Italy the Andalucian Nights trilogy (Indiscretion, Masquerade and Legacy), set in Spain Aphrodite’s Tears, set on the Greek islands Concerto, set on Lake Como and Song of the Nile, set in Hannah's homeland, Egypt. Today, she lives the dream: writing full time at her homes in England and Ireland, and in the South of France, where she dreams up romances overlooking breath-taking views of the Mediterranean. Years later – following a degree in French literature, several years of travelling in Europe, falling in love with an Englishman, the arrival of two beautiful children and a career in property development – Hannah decided after so many years of yearning to write that the time was now. The seeds for her writing career were sown in early childhood, spent in Egypt, when she came to an agreement with her governess Zula: for each fairy story Zula told, Hannah would invent and relate one of her own. Hannah Fielding is an incurable romantic. ![]() Can Venetia trust that love will triumph, even over her own demons? Or will Paolo's carefully guarded, devastating secret tear them apart forever? When she finds herself assigned to a project at his magnificent home deep in the Tuscan countryside, Venetia not only faces a beautiful young rival but also a sinister count and dark forces in the shadows, determined to come between them. Drawn to the powerfully seductive Paolo, despite warnings of his Don Juan reputation and rumours that he keeps a mistress, Venetia can't help being caught up in the smouldering passion that ignites between them. For the past ten years she has built a fortress around her heart, only to find the walls tumbling down one night of the carnival when she is rescued from masked assailants by an enigmatic stranger, Paolo Barone. Venetia Aston-Montagu has escaped to Venice to work in her godmother's architectural practice, putting a lost love behind her. Set against the breathtaking beauty of Italy, The Echoes of Love is a passionate, heart-breaking romance to ignite the senses and rekindle your belief in the power of love. ![]()
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