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A Roman Singer
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200 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1884
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March 20, 2015
I couldn't wait to finish this because I wanted to know what would happen, but at the same time I savored it and have taken all of four days to finish it.
Sadly I left this too long to write a good review. But I will try my best. This was the perfect grownup fairytale, set in Italy and with an ugly hero who has the voice of an angel. He has absolutely no interest in anything but his music, and his family. Then one day he sees the most beautiful young girl, she is a foreigner with golden curls and big blue eyes and an icy cold demeanor. He begs his music teacher (who also teaches her music), to help him get a position as her Italian instructor, just so he can see her.
Her over controlling father sentences her to a far off castle, in an unknown place well away from the hero. What follows is an amazing attempted rescue, a madman and an arranged marriage. Beautiful, I loved this book ever so much.
Quick note: Did you know, one of my favorite parts in this book, really happened. It was derived from F.M.C's travels in Italy. It was in an inn with a dead man in the room next to the hero's father figure, the innkeeper felt that for the dead to rest peacefully he had to have someone from outside the village keep vigil.
Bottom Line: I loved this book so much that it wont be long before I read another F.M. Crawford.
G I don't recall any swears, violence or anything else to cause disgruntlement.
Sadly I left this too long to write a good review. But I will try my best. This was the perfect grownup fairytale, set in Italy and with an ugly hero who has the voice of an angel. He has absolutely no interest in anything but his music, and his family. Then one day he sees the most beautiful young girl, she is a foreigner with golden curls and big blue eyes and an icy cold demeanor. He begs his music teacher (who also teaches her music), to help him get a position as her Italian instructor, just so he can see her.
Her over controlling father sentences her to a far off castle, in an unknown place well away from the hero. What follows is an amazing attempted rescue, a madman and an arranged marriage. Beautiful, I loved this book ever so much.
Quick note: Did you know, one of my favorite parts in this book, really happened. It was derived from F.M.C's travels in Italy. It was in an inn with a dead man in the room next to the hero's father figure, the innkeeper felt that for the dead to rest peacefully he had to have someone from outside the village keep vigil.
Bottom Line: I loved this book so much that it wont be long before I read another F.M. Crawford.
G I don't recall any swears, violence or anything else to cause disgruntlement.
March 20, 2015
This is the story of a rather ugly boy with a great voice. While still non-famous he falls in love with a Count's daughter and pretends to be a professor to gain access to his lady love while tutoring.
One day, he goes on a "field trip " with Hedwig, her father and another man to the Roman ruins at midnight so Hedwig can see the full moon through the hole in the ampitheater ceiling. While there, in the darkness he gets the urge to sing and does so but no one can tell where the voice is coming from. Nino says it's his cousin who has now disappeared into the night.
Hedwig falls in love with the voice and keeps asking about his cousin...
Then the day of his debut arrives and Hedwig and her father are in the audience...
To cut a long story short, the Count refuses to allow his daughter to marry a phlebian musician and he takes his daughter away to an undisclosed castle location far in the mountains of Italy.
There's a villain, and a love story, a great escape and a subtheme of opera. Add to that, the dialog has fantastic wit which makes it a winner in my books. (see my status updates for examples)
I took it down a star because I dislike someone else narrating the story. (in this case it was Nino's adoptive father). You miss so much with explanations of "how I know what happened ".
But its a good fairytale like story and I enjoyed it.
CONTENT: G
One day, he goes on a "field trip " with Hedwig, her father and another man to the Roman ruins at midnight so Hedwig can see the full moon through the hole in the ampitheater ceiling. While there, in the darkness he gets the urge to sing and does so but no one can tell where the voice is coming from. Nino says it's his cousin who has now disappeared into the night.
Hedwig falls in love with the voice and keeps asking about his cousin...
Then the day of his debut arrives and Hedwig and her father are in the audience...
To cut a long story short, the Count refuses to allow his daughter to marry a phlebian musician and he takes his daughter away to an undisclosed castle location far in the mountains of Italy.
There's a villain, and a love story, a great escape and a subtheme of opera. Add to that, the dialog has fantastic wit which makes it a winner in my books. (see my status updates for examples)
I took it down a star because I dislike someone else narrating the story. (in this case it was Nino's adoptive father). You miss so much with explanations of "how I know what happened ".
But its a good fairytale like story and I enjoyed it.
CONTENT: G
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