City of Masks
by Mary Hoffman
Such a wonderful journey to another world yet so similar and different at the same time with ours.
Lucien is 16yo Londoner sick with brain cancer. After his first chemotherapy he is limited to his house as his exhausted body doesn't permit him any more activity than this. Until his fater brings him an old Italian, at east that's what he thinks, notebook. In fact this notebook is a talisman from Talia ,Italy in a parallel world, of the 16th century brough by the Bellezzan regent Rodolpho.
As Lucien falls to sleepholding his notebook he is transfered to Bellezza...and get hiself in trouble. He materialises in the Forbidden day, a day when no one except people born in Bellzza are allowed in the city. If not for Arriana he would be dead. From now on his life is tied with hers. Rodolpho, Silvia the Bellezzan Duchessa, Enrico, Guido Parola, Ferdinando do Chimici all entangled in a lethal dance in which two lives are about to be lost and all of them changed forever shaping the future of Talia!
A great book with a very strong plot and realistic, stong and interesting characters. I couldn't put it down easily the first time. A real page-turnen. I love Talia. A magical place where the rules of our world do not apply all the time.
A must read!
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