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A review by mahdigasmi
The Garden of Letters by Alyson Richman
3.0
3.5/5
The garden of letters is a historical fiction book set in Italy during world war 2, it follows two interweaved stories of Elodie and Angelo.
Elodie is nearly twenty, she's a gifted cello player, elodie's life was the quiet type it was all about cello and her lovely musician parents.
On the other hand, Angelo is a doctor from the beautiful village of Portofino who went through some tragic issue and oh man it was sad!
The interweave comes when Angelo rescues Elodie's life in the port of Portofino. The book starts from there and goes back forth to their stories.
I couldn't ask for more than the first half of this book, it was simply phenomenal!
The writing was SOOO BEAUTIFUL you can't believe it! I was hooked up for real. The writer provided a complete set up with magnificent description and outstanding characters. The characters in this book are big plus. They were so lively and real, each one of them has its own identifiable voice because the author presented each character on its own so that was that.
I bizarrely liked the love story, it wasn't clichéd and it felt more mature to me.
Everything seemed so real especially the tragic parts and specifically Angelo's I guess I loved his story even more than Elodie's.
The historical facts were interesting and I look forward to learn more about the Italian history
I unfortunately can't say the same thing about the second half of the book, I struggled through and I wanted it to end as quick as possible. I thought that author didn't give a lot of space for more action and focused on the love details a lot, it was fine at the beginning but than it was messed up. The ending wasn't really satisfying as well,it didn't make sense to me the happily ever after in the middle the German invasion.
One more thing that kept going on my mind is the message or it's better to say the value of the message in this book, I felt like except from the history part I haven't taken any thing that matters from it which is a bit disappointing. in
The garden of letters is a historical fiction book set in Italy during world war 2, it follows two interweaved stories of Elodie and Angelo.
Elodie is nearly twenty, she's a gifted cello player, elodie's life was the quiet type it was all about cello and her lovely musician parents.
On the other hand, Angelo is a doctor from the beautiful village of Portofino who went through some tragic issue and oh man it was sad!
The interweave comes when Angelo rescues Elodie's life in the port of Portofino. The book starts from there and goes back forth to their stories.
I couldn't ask for more than the first half of this book, it was simply phenomenal!
The writing was SOOO BEAUTIFUL you can't believe it! I was hooked up for real. The writer provided a complete set up with magnificent description and outstanding characters. The characters in this book are big plus. They were so lively and real, each one of them has its own identifiable voice because the author presented each character on its own so that was that.
I bizarrely liked the love story, it wasn't clichéd and it felt more mature to me.
Everything seemed so real especially the tragic parts and specifically Angelo's I guess I loved his story even more than Elodie's.
The historical facts were interesting and I look forward to learn more about the Italian history
I unfortunately can't say the same thing about the second half of the book, I struggled through and I wanted it to end as quick as possible. I thought that author didn't give a lot of space for more action and focused on the love details a lot, it was fine at the beginning but than it was messed up. The ending wasn't really satisfying as well,it didn't make sense to me the happily ever after in the middle the German invasion.
One more thing that kept going on my mind is the message or it's better to say the value of the message in this book, I felt like except from the history part I haven't taken any thing that matters from it which is a bit disappointing. in