The Medici Mirror

by Melissa Bailey

[Ace]

This book had so much, unfulfilled potential :( I slugged away for the first hundred odd pages (maybe 120?) just trying to convince myself that the book would get better. So many times I nearly put it down just because I couldn't get into it during the beginning of the book. I even had to go back to read the blurb at first to figure out who the main character was. I think that was about the point I seriously considered giving up.

I didn't though.

By the end of the book I was enjoying it but even then it felt rather flat truthfully. I figured out the ending too which was rather disappointing. I just felt like there was so much that could have been explored but there wasn't? Perhaps it's because these type of three storylines that intertwine with each other usually have a lot more action in it than this one but it was just too boring for me. Oh, I loved the history element of it but the modern day storyline? That bored me. It wasn't until the climax of the novel, maybe the last hundred odd pages that I actually enjoyed the main character and their storyline.

Still I am glad I bourght myself to finish the book.