Vivian Q. (bellasgranny) - , reviewed on 8/27/2009 + 468 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 5

This book, supposedly an international bestseller, was awful. I couldn't get past the first few chapters, the writing was so bad and amateurish. Too many sentences with dashes in between groups of words and the use of italics was annoying. It needs to be read together with an English-Italian dictionary, as there are so many words in Italian with no explanation or glossary. Sentence structure was pretty bad, too. Sad, since the setting and the premise of the story sounded so intriguing. I understand, from reading other reviews, that the author has made many errors regarding the art of glassblowing that are inaccurate and dangerous to follow. Poorly researched and edited.

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