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The Medici Secret (2008)

by Michael White(Favorite Author)

3.01 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0099520184 (ISBN13: 9780099520184)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Arrow

review 1: This is an easy and relatively quick read, perfect for airports and planes etc. On the downside, it's a bit implausible in parts but best to just "get over it" and keep turning the page. The Medici family fascinates me, particularly Cosimo, and I also love Venice and Florence. Wrap them all up and throw in a dead body, a chapel, a lost secret, lots of codes, assassins, and mix it all up with a quest to find the truth. Hmmm, doesn't this sound vaguely familiar? Seriously, this isn't a bad book. It's not great by a long shot but if you like the genre it's best you go along for the ride and make up your own mind about it....
review 2: This book read like it was trying desperately to be something by Dan Brown -- in other words, it had a deplorable lack of ambit... moreion. The characters were nearly too precious to be believed, from the geeky science chick who just happened to look just like actress Liv Tyler, to the precocious teen-aged daughter who could shake off the violent death of a close friend in mere minutes, to the incredibly rich, handsome, and connected-to-everyone best friend. Each one felt like a cartoon sketch of an actual person. The motivations for the actions were unclear, the actual mystery an stretch of the imagination which could only be obtained with a total suspension of any kind of skepticism, never mind disbelief. I suppose that there are worse books in the world, but I did find this one to be a waste of time. less

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