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The Remedy

3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 · rating details · 209 ratings · 44 reviews

I was an unwilling nun, bundled into the convent by a family that had briefly lost its head . . .

The nuns caught me early by my sweet tooth, hanging sugared almonds, balsamic lozenges, and candied fruit in the humid swoop of the orchard branches whenever we went . . .

I married Christ in a delirium spun of sweetened wine. I was only bitter later, when I saw little girls dre...more

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Published November 22nd 2005 by ReganBooks (first published 2005)

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May 11, 2010 Miriam rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: those obsessed with the filth of the past

Shelves: unfinished

There must be a term for this sub-genre of historical fiction which focuses on extensive description of the sordidness and filth of the past: the stenches, the sores and sicknesses, the gutters clogged with feces, the pox-scarred prostitutes reeking of sweat, jism and tooth-decay, the scarred and deformed poor. Accompanying this physical description, as if the dirt of the past were a reflection of its moral caliber rather than its lack of sanitation, is what seems an obsession with the forementi...more

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Jan 10, 2009 bookczuk rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm at a loss how to categorize this book: It much of it centers on romance and a love story of sortis, but it is not a typical romance. It starts with a murder and ends with the solution to that murder, but is not a mystery. There are spies, there is espionage in the good old fashioned sense (an actress reporting to her keepers for starters) but it in no way resembles the spy stories of today. Borne would be totally clueless with this one. Good girl gone bad, or perhaps bad girl gone good-- pro...more

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Sep 24, 2012 Martin rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical, fiction

It took me more than a month to read this novel, which is extremely long for me. Honestly I don't think the novel is all that bad, but it is certainly confusing and frustrating. Ironically the plot is clear and predictable after the first few pages of the second part, how it all plays out after that is a bit of a mess though.

A rebellious Venetian girl is shipped off to a local convent where she at least can't make any more trouble for her noble family. Inside the convent things go from bad to wo...more It took me more than a month to read this novel, which is extremely long for me. Honestly I don't think the novel is all that bad, but it is certainly confusing and frustrating. Ironically the plot is clear and predictable after the first few pages of the second part, how it all plays out after that is a bit of a mess though.

A rebellious Venetian girl is shipped off to a local convent where she at least can't make any more trouble for her noble family. Inside the convent things go from bad to worse and pretty soon the innocent girl is sleeping with invited male 'customers' of the nuns. Quite predictably she gets pregnant by her dashingly interesting stranger. After some final altercations she manages to escape the convent and ends up in London as an actress and spy for hire. We then switch to the perspective (although not in first person) of 18th century master of the London dispensaries by the name of Valentine Greatrakes. A more unbelievable and silly name if I've ever seen. Intrigue ensues. Valentine falls for the actress who turns out to be related to this and the other, they hate each other, miss each other, try to find each other again and again and so on. If you like coincidences then this is one you'll like.

Characters are beyond flat and modeled after what the author thinks current gender stereotypes are, and then projected on 18th century templates. None of the characters are particularly likable, which is not a requirement for a good novel, but they should at least be interesting. Granted the period is rendered in vividly accurate detail, but then again that is what we expect these days from authors. Flat novels is unfortunately also something we've become to expect. The male characters are all single minded and only interested in carnal pleasures. Women are either stunningly graceful or beyond ugly and/or boring, all of them being eternal victims who might also be seen as strong if it weren't for the overwhelming victim mentality portrayed in this book by all female characters.

So then why did I read it? I'm a bit of a sucker for immersive novels, especially those taking place in exotic locations from exciting periods of history. In this particular novel the opening recipes for quack medicines added an additional touch to the text although you quickly find out that the subject of the recipes doesn't have much to do with the contents of the chapter. You know the author got things right, you don't know why specifically but you know. Both London and Venice feel real and appear to be quite genuinely depicted in the appropriate period settings.

All of the world descriptions and depictions work together well on the other hand many of infuriatingly little narrative details stand out and detract from the story. All the female character's chapters are in first person but not the male protagonist. One of the female characters, the daughter of Valentine's best friend Tom, is given a very small amount of chapters to add something useful to the narrative but those fragments make things more confusing than they already are. Supposedly this girl/woman/child is dense and quite selfish. Certainly the selfish part is consistent but if we have to believe the author she is far from stupid. If this is a deliberate touch then nowhere in the rest of the novel does it make sense or fit in.(less)

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Apr 03, 2012 Juushika rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: status-owned, genre-historical

A historical romance-cum-drama set in the underbellies of 1780s London and Venice. I could finish reading thisit's overlong but not poorly paced on the whole, and the prose is often laborious and strangely stilted, but far from unreadablebut I don't want to. There's little to intrigue, here, despite the richness of the historical setting: what opens well with the story of a young recalcitrant nun devolves into an insipid romance, and while there's a hint of conspiracy in the background details...more

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Nov 27, 2012 Márcia B. rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Atenção: Poderá conter spoilers.

Acabei de ler o livro hoje, por isso esta pequena crítica sai fresquinha!
Como dá para perceber pelo resumo, é um drama de época com duas personagens principais: uma espia veneziana e um charlatão inglês.
Não é uma leitura "pesada" ou que exiga um elevado nível de concentração para perceber a história, o que a torna perfeita para aquela leitura antes de dormir que muitos(as) gostam (eu incluída).
Outros pontos a favor deste livro é que tem um certo humor, que eu ache...more

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Sep 23, 2007 Audrey rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: theater majors & SCA members

For having such grandiose language and detailed descriptions, it really didnt have a plot to match. It was a little disappointing to have such a trite love story come from such an interesting setting. I will say, though, that Lovric does have an amazing vocabulary - my favorite epithet: "a hefty bit of nastiness".

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May 27, 2009 Terri Garey rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book was a surprise, in that I started it, found it extremely slow going and put it aside, only to pick it up again months later during a reading "dry spell".

I'm glad I did, because I ended up enjoying it immensely. As an author, I could see where the author of this book struggled with trying to be a bit too enigmatic about her characters (as well as her plot) in the beginning, and then tried to make up for it later, which led to a bit of overall "jerkiness" in the story. I found myself que...more

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Feb 24, 2011 Cindy rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-fiction

A novel of 18th century Venice and London. A high bred young woman is placed in a convent against her will. she's given out as a whore to a man. When impregnated she is abandoned by her lover, the nun's tell her the baby died and she's given out to be an actress and a spy for the state.

She falls in love with a smuggler who produces products for medical quakes. He is the ward of her A"dead" baby who is now age 16. She will eventually avenge her lover's abandonment and end up with the smuggler who...more

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Sep 11, 2009 Ana Barreto rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Quase desisti deste livro. Ao ler as primeiras 50 páginas, estava a achar tudo muito esquisito... a história quase não andava, estava a custar-me a ler. Como raramente ponho um livro de lado, decidi continuar e devo confessar que até gostei. Passando aquela fase inicial, até mostrou ser uma história interessante, original (pelo menos em comparação com o tipo de livro que costumo ler), embora tenha partes um bocadinho "difíceis de engolir". Também gostei bastante das personagens. Para mim, um liv...more

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Mar 16, 2012 Maria rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Este é um dos livros que quis devido à capa e ao título. A sinopse também fez com que ficasse curiosa. Recebi-o pelo Natal, mas só o li agora porque decidi esperar e ler outros entretanto.

Este livro é especial, primeiro porque o tempo verbal utilizado não condiz com a narrativa e isso torna a leitura um pouco difícil. Para conseguir ler-se o livro em condições é preciso ignorar-se a escrita, o que é difícil pois a escrita faz a narrativa. Até mais ou menos à página 250 devo dizer que foi um pou...more Este é um dos livros que quis devido à capa e ao título. A sinopse também fez com que ficasse curiosa. Recebi-o pelo Natal, mas só o li agora porque decidi esperar e ler outros entretanto.

Este livro é especial, primeiro porque o tempo verbal utilizado não condiz com a narrativa e isso torna a leitura um pouco difícil. Para conseguir ler-se o livro em condições é preciso ignorar-se a escrita, o que é difícil pois a escrita faz a narrativa. Até mais ou menos à página 250 devo dizer que foi um pouco estranho, mas ainda bem que não pus o livro de parte porque a partir daí vale a pena.

O melhor no livro é a intriga, as mentiras e forma como as vidas das personagens se misturam.

Uma rapariga da Nobreza que é enclausurada num convento pelos pais começa a contar a sua história. É ela uma das personagens principais e uma das que conta na sua pessoa a história.
Enquanto está no convento, tem um relacionamento com um homem e desse relacionamento dá-se uma gravidez. No final da gravidez, mas não no parto, a jovem perde o bebé (que ela acreditava ser um rapaz), quando o médico o retira do ventre com um instrumento.
A partir daí, a jovem vira-se contra as freiras e ataca uma delas. Depois disso é levada até a uns homens que fazem dela uma espia. Torna-se atriz e é em Londres que conhece um aristocrata que nada tem de aristocrata. É um charlatão e um criminoso.
Esse homem tem um amigo que morreu às mãos de alguém que ele procura matar, para assim se vingar do amigo. Ele é tutor da filha do amigo, uma rapariga respondona, com um feitio muito especial.
A história também é vista sobre a sua perspetiva.

É assim que as vidas das personagens se entrelaçam umas nas outras.
Entre Veneza e Londres, em viagens e aventuras, a jovem e o aristocrata apaixonam-se. Desencontros, mentiras, encenações, médios falsos, frascos de remédios, amizades, raptos, fugas, conventos, pinturas, artistas, mascarados, espiões, políticos, nobres, povo, passado, esperteza e paixão são os ingredientes desta história.

Devo dizer que me impressionou o final do livro, na medida que a jovem, agora mulher, mentiu muito bem ao aristocrata mentiroso.
E quem o descobriu também me surpreendeu.

É um livro que é interessante se se persistir na sua leitura, porque o melhor só aparece a partir do meio deste.
Ah! Um facto muito interessante...as receitas de remédios da época retratada no livro, no inicio de cada capitulo. Está muito interessante!
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Jan 13, 2012 Filipa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: library, not-own, portuguese-books, historical-romance, 2012-reads

Um livro diferente. ( http://labirinto-livros.blogspot.com/...)

Mais uma vez, parti à descoberta e decidi ler um livro de um autor que ainda não conhecia. Este Remédio pareceu-me ser interessante por várias razões. Primeiro, a acção decorre em duas cidades que exercem um grande fascínio em mim: Londres e Veneza. Segundo, é um romance histórico e apesar de não ser o meu género de eleição é um género que tem vindo a crescer proporcionalmente nos meus interesses para desanuviar de outras leituras. T...more Um livro diferente. ( http://labirinto-livros.blogspot.com/...)

Mais uma vez, parti à descoberta e decidi ler um livro de um autor que ainda não conhecia. Este Remédio pareceu-me ser interessante por várias razões. Primeiro, a acção decorre em duas cidades que exercem um grande fascínio em mim: Londres e Veneza. Segundo, é um romance histórico e apesar de não ser o meu género de eleição é um género que tem vindo a crescer proporcionalmente nos meus interesses para desanuviar de outras leituras. Terceiro, tem uma sinopse muito apelativa, tal como o título.
O único factor que me fez hesitar brevemente foi a falta de opiniões que existe. É verdade que nunca tinha ouvido falar da autora, nem das suas obras, nem nunca tinha visto os livros à venda, mas isso não seria motivo para haver tão poucas opiniões para esta obra.
No entanto, só quando se experimenta é que se sabe se gosta e portante decidi pegar no livro.

O Remédio conta-nos uma história de intrigas, mentiras. Um verdadeiro jogo entre o gato e o rato. Valentine Greatakes é o rei do crime londrino e numa noite de 1785, numa ida ao teatro conhece uma actriz veneziana pela qual fica irremediavelmente apaixonado.
O que Valentine não sabe é que esta mulher não é verdadeiramente uma actriz. O seu passado esconde muita coisa e agora, ela é uma espia ao serviço de Veneza. No entanto, até este trabalho tem uma motivação ulterior que esconde vários segredos do passado desta actriz e do próprio Valentine.
Com desconfiança entre os amantes, os dois, vão andar entre Veneza e Londres à procura da verdade escondida em cada um deles.
E farão de tudo para que o seu amor possa ser consagrado.

Tenho que dizer que esta estreia me deixou deveras dividida. Quando comecei o livro, estranhei muito o vocabulário e a própria escrita - nem conseguia perceber o enredo. No entanto, mal consegui entrar no ritmo, percebi que tudo o que senti no início tinha sido propositado para deixar uma aura de mistério e consegui entrar melhor na história. A partir daí, foi um prazer ler este romance histórico, que é único entre aqueles que eu já li. Tem um tom mais sério, mais pesado. Existem algumas cenas e algum vocabulário que me faz confusão, por não estar habituada, mas que acabou por ser uma mais-valia na leitura.
Ironicamente, o único personagem que realmente apreciei foi Valentine; rei do crime londrino. Ainda mais, por esta personalidade ter existido realmente.
De resto, os cenários do livros foram o seu ponto mais forte, sem qualquer dúvida. As suas descrições foram muito motivadoras na leitura, pois conseguiram-me de facto transportar para o cenário da obra.
Também achei interessante todas as receitas que estavam em cada início de capítulo. Numa época em que a alquimia é deveras importante, achei este um pormenor determinante e que torna este livro único e diferente dos outros romances históricos.

Com tudo isto, quero dizer que apesar de ter sido bastante difícil entrar no ritmo do livro, mal isto aconteceu foi com agrado que li a obra na sua totalidade.
Foi um romance histórico muito completo, cheio de intrigas, mentiras e decepções.
Para quem gosta do género, acredito que também irá apreciar esta obra de Michelle Lovric.(less)

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Aug 12, 2011 Kerry Bridges rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this one because I enjoyed "The Book of Human Skin" which I thought was very cleverly written. This one I found a lot harder to get into and I didn't like the "recipes" at the beginning of each chapter - they just annoyed me. Once I got into the book, I did enjoy it and I think it is worth persevering over the time it takes to set the scene.

The book is about a young girl from Venice who is shut away in a nunnery by her parents and who then escapes and is made to work for the Venetian gov...more

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Aug 24, 2009 Heather rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 50-books-in-2009, owned

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. To be totally honest, I wasn't entirely fond of this book. The writing was lovely, with a wide vocabulary and an interesting style, but the plot and the characters fell flat. The only character that I felt stayed (mostly) true to the general establishment of her personality was Pevenche. She began as a spoiled brat and ended as a spoiled brat, albeit in a much better atmosphere. The two other primary characters, Mimosina and Valentine, seemed to develop new traits as it was required of the endin...more To be totally honest, I wasn't entirely fond of this book. The writing was lovely, with a wide vocabulary and an interesting style, but the plot and the characters fell flat. The only character that I felt stayed (mostly) true to the general establishment of her personality was Pevenche. She began as a spoiled brat and ended as a spoiled brat, albeit in a much better atmosphere. The two other primary characters, Mimosina and Valentine, seemed to develop new traits as it was required of the ending, even if those traits were in direct opposition to previous statements about their characters. Mimosina began as a character we would all love to hate but in a pitiful sort of way. Suddenly, at the end, we're expected to feel deep remorse and concern for this suddenly tragic creature and yet, we shortly thereafter are expected to again embrace the nasty, petty truth of Mimosina. She was a great and loved damsel in distress only when it suited the needs of the climax. Her character lacked a general progression of change that would have otherwise made it quite easy for the reader to suddenly feel distress at Mimosina's dire predicaments. Valentine's character was, I felt, similarly wishy-washy but to a lesser extent. His changes appeared to be less of a mental wild goose chase and more attributed to a change in perspective.

Even beyond the chracters was the plot. Perhaps it was only so for me, but by the first third of the book, I knew the basics of the ending. I had solved the mystery before we were ever truly made aware that there was this great mystery ahead. I spent pages upon pages waiting to see revealed what I already knew and felt that while the author did a decent job with weaving small details into the mystery without giving much away, she was trying too hard to keep a fairly obvious result as hidden as possible. Even if I hadn't already known what was to occur, I think the details still would have been tedious and obvious in their attempts to hide something. A good mystery leaves you realizing that you missed so many clues, made so many incorrect guesses by miscalculating the information and the results. This mystery, however, made it very clear that the hints were HINTS and that they MEANT SOMETHING and you should REMEMBER THEM. The entire plot was just one shoulder-nudge after another from the author.

Lovric has a wonderful style of writing that is both unique and intriguing, but all the other aspects of the novel spoiled whatever joy I may have otherwise experienced.(less)

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Aug 03, 2011 Lucy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-historic, fiction-18th-century

Where to begin with my review of this book?

It may end up being just as muddied as the plot line to 'The Remedy' if I'm not careful...

What this is at its very core is a love story.

A very predictable (I correctly guessed the plot twist within the first few chapters), well-researched love story set against an interesting historical backdrop.

What drew me to this book initially was the fact that it was set in 18th century London and dealt with Quack doctors and other unsavory folk. It promised (an...more Where to begin with my review of this book?

It may end up being just as muddied as the plot line to 'The Remedy' if I'm not careful...

What this is at its very core is a love story.

A very predictable (I correctly guessed the plot twist within the first few chapters), well-researched love story set against an interesting historical backdrop.

What drew me to this book initially was the fact that it was set in 18th century London and dealt with Quack doctors and other unsavory folk. It promised (and delivered!) unflinching portrayals of what city life during this time was like: gritty, sordid, painful, and full of misery, all while wearing a frock coat.

Lovric has a decided flair for painting grotesque caricaturizations of people and their inner machinations, and her three main characters are no exception; each as ugly and twisted and broken as the next, despite the pleasing outward countenances of Mimosina Dolcezza and Valentine Greatrakes, the two great lovers of the book.

The ghastly woman-child Pevenche was the brightest burning flame in my opinion, her lurid physical description following me around from page to page.

The meat of the novel doesn't begin until about 200 pages within, when the plot line unravels and becomes tangled and messy. If you are like me, you already know how the book is going to end so just read the novel for the bizarre recipes for healing unguents and nostrums (from authentic and somehow still extant 18th century sources) which announce the beginning of each new chapter.

All in all, despite its flaws 'The Remedy' it is an entertaining jaunt which sometimes smacks of Rikki Ducornet (probably because of the grotesque descriptions of people and ailments)and is recommended for those folks who have an interest in strange historical details and events.

Read it for: historic details of 18th century Venice and London, unflinching descriptions of various priapic medical disorders (I counted the word 'effluvia' five times), sordid ale-house interiors, vengeful Italian nuns and strange, historical apocrypha.
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Mar 22, 2009 Carrie rated it 4 of 5 stars

As a wanna-be Venetian, this book was fascinating, especially as it was also partially set in another favorite city of mine, London! Both the plot and the language was very complex in this book, which kept drawing me in. I confess to having figured out the relationship between the characters early on, but that did not keep me from staying interested in what would happen next.

If you like history, and enjoy layered plots with subtle moments and twists, you will enjoy this. Love Venice like I do? T...more

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Dec 07, 2012 Jane rated it 4 of 5 stars

If you are a fan of historical fiction and haven't read any of Michelle Lovric's work yet, I totally recommend. The Remedy, set in the late 1700s, takes us back and forth between Venice and London and entwines the stories of Venetian actress Mimosina Dolcezza, rogue Valentine Greatrakes and woman-child Pevenche. Lovric paints a vivid picture of the urban world of the late 1700s, from the theatre to the work of the quacks who sell their remedies to the unsuspecting masses. This was a very enjoyab...more

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May 01, 2013 Angie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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It could of been better. The description of the east end of London from that time period were good. All that gin. The amount the 2 main people went to and from London to Venice was a bit over the top, and the things she got up to as a nun, well what most of the nuns behaved like, was crazy. But I liked the recurring character, of the woman artist, who appeared in the other 3 books. Just a bit over long as well.

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Nov 28, 2011 Angela rated it 4 of 5 stars

Whilst it may be true that the "mystery" is quite easy to predict, I didn't find that it spoiled my enjoyment. The recipes for various "potions" at the beginning of each chapter are fascinating, and the descriptions vividly conjure up images of 18th century London and Venice, in all their festering, stinking glory! I didn't expect to like it as much as I did, but it drew me in and kept me riveted right to the end.

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Aug 10, 2008 Lori Anderson rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: European historical fiction fans

Recommended to Lori by: found it in a coffee shop!

Shelves: favorites, historical-fiction

I have a love for historical fiction, particularly of the 1700's, and even more so of Italy. I quite enjoyed this book, even though it did make me pull out my dictionary a few times!

Venice and London are the cities of note in "The Remedy", and while it's a love story, it's a twisted one. I particularly liked the ending -- I saw one twist coming about halfway through the book, but the last one eluded me for a while.

If you liked "In the Company of the Courtesan", you'll probably like this one, to...more

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Mar 31, 2012 Madelynp rated it 2 of 5 stars

I had such trouble choosing between two and three stars for this book. As many other reviewers have said, the plot was entirely predictable and the three main characters were completely terrible (maybe?) people. HOWEVER (in uppercase, please note), the writing is delightful and the author deserves her Orange Prize nomination for this book. Although I wouldn't necessarily recommend this book immediately to someone, I certainly wouldn't encourage them to put it down (as I would with several books...more

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May 19, 2012 Olgalijo rated it 3 of 5 stars

I always like historical novels, and if they are set in Venice it's definitely a biggie. In this case though, I had trouble suspending disbelief. The hidden and darker parts of society in Venice and London are very well depicted, which gives a certain amount of freshness to the genre; but the twists and turns of the plot, which ended up being very predictable, had me raising an eyebrow more than once.

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Dec 29, 2010 Lisa rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Got halfway thru and couldn't finish it, it lost my attention. It sure started out good and got bogged down in the details. Sigh!

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May 04, 2010 L.C. Lavado rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: on-my-shelfs

Infelizmente não consegui terminar de ler este livro.

O tempo verbal utilizado tornou-o simplesmente impossivel de ler.

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Aug 24, 2011 Lou rated it 4 of 5 stars

Very similar to the Book of Human Skin, in subject matter and plot, but for some reason not quite as gripping. But a bloody good read nonetheless.

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Jul 27, 2011 Joanne rated it 4 of 5 stars

great read, historical fiction, fun and entertaining

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Feb 27, 2013 Jess rated it 2 of 5 stars

Michelle Lovric writes beautifully. Her prose is rich and delightful, and I was positively awed by some of her descriptive passages. However, The Remedy falls down on the level of plot, which spoiled the experience of this book for me. It started well, but then fell into a very meandering middle and end. The whole thing relied too much on an initial coincidence, and there was no real tension throughout. This was a real shame, as I absolutely adored Lovric's The Book of Human Skin. I recommend th...more

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Oct 16, 2012 Chris rated it 3 of 5 stars

wonderful period detail

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Jul 29, 2011 Sara marked it as to-read · review of another edition

05 long list-orange prize

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Feb 18, 2013 Kieran Neylon rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Slow start, came close to bailing out. Glad I perserved though.

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Dec 16, 2009 Sarah rated it 1 of 5 stars

A real shame. This book started out very strong but devolves quickly past the exposition.

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Michelle Lovric is a novelist, writer and anthologist.

Her third novel, The Remedy, was long-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. The Remedy is a literary murder-mystery set against the background of the quack medicine industry in the eighteenth century.

Her first novel, Carnevale, is the story of the painter Cecilia Cornaro, described by The Times as the possessor of ‘the most covetable l...more

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