Review venue by Fiona Davis

The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


As in her novel The Address, in The Lions of Fifth Avenue two stories set in different time periods revolve around a single building in New York City, and critical plot elements depend on details of the architecture. In The Address the building was the Dakota. In Lions it's the New York Public Library. And in both books, the characters are so well drawn, believable, and empathetic, that you forget the artificiality of the structure and get caught up in the intersecting plot lines.

This book grew on me, quickly. After a slow start, about halfway through the characters came alive and I literally couldn't put it down. This was true for both of the story lines, 1913 and 1993.




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