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nwhyte's review against another edition
3.0
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2132126.html[return][return]This is a reasonably good illustration of both the strengths and weaknesses of the Lovejoy books. On the plus side, Gash actually uses both Lovejoy's home setting in East Anglia, for the first quarter of the book, and then a richly imagined Venice where he becomes part of an industrial scale forgery operation, the details of the manufacturing fake antiques outlined in all their loving complexity. On the downside, women continue to throw themselves at Lovejoy for no apparent reason, he continues to treat them abominably, and the actual forgery plan is baroque to far beyond any point of plausibility, and the supposedly comic ending is almost identical to that of The Vatican Rip, published three years earlier. I think those who don't know the Lovejoy novels could take this as a fair sample of what they are like.
tonimmarie's review against another edition
3.0
It took me a surprising amount of time to finish this tiny book, but I picjed it up again the other day and read the last 100 pages or so and i'm so glad I did!! I really enjoyed this story. It was full of art and antiques and lust. But mostly I kust really really enjoyed Lovejoy. He is unlike any character i've read. He is so modest but also so vocky. So sassy and slick yet so anxious and cowardly. I've never read from the point of view of someone with those charavteristics. He's talented and clever and I love spy novels which this definitely has this amateur spy feeling to it? I really enjoyed it!
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