Review by Sanja74 -- The Girl Who Loved Caravaggio

[Sanja74]

[Following is a volunteer review of "The Girl Who Loved Caravaggio" by Belle Ami.]

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4 out of 4 stars

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The Girl Who Loved Caravaggio is the second book in an Out of Time Thriller Series by Belle Ami. In the first book, ( The Girl Who Knew Da Vinci ), we met Angela Renatus - an art historian with psychic abilities, and Alex Cain - a former Navy Seal and current private investigator who specializes in retrieving stolen art. I didn’t read the first one, but many times in this second book, it was summarized how they got together and solved the case of missing Da Vinci’s painting.

In this book, our characters are traveling from Florence to the United States to announce their engagement. First to her father, who lives in Chicago, then to his extremely wealthy mother in San Francisco, and also to his father, the diplomat, in London. Later they visited Rome and Naples, even Malta and Sicily. Traveling with them was fun, especially if you visited those places that the author mentioned. Beautiful Florence and some buildings in it were described genuine.

Angela started having dreams about Caravaggio. She is trying to figure out what does those dreams have to do with her and Alex this time. Alex is fighting his own demons. He was told the truth about Angela’s mother, but he has to keep it a secret. Angela and Alex have an emotional connection which is as strong as their past lives. When they get hired to find famous Caravaggio’s painting that was stolen from the church in 1969, they both feel the past pushing them in. Is the painting still somewhere in Mafia’s hands, or is it cut out into pieces and destroyed?

Ami’s characters are well built, the story is excided, fast-paced and well researched. I like that I had to use Google to look up for some paintings as well as places. You learn a lot and get amused by the spy-mistery-romance-reincarnation story. Even the character’s passion for food is so well developed that it makes you look for recipes.

I give this book 4 out of 4 stars. It is fun reading that will not disappoint any art lover, but as I mentioned before, mistery and romance readers too. It is not recommended for a young audience, as some bad words showed up, and also light erotic/sex scene. Nothing too much, but might be enough to make someone uncomfortable.

I think I will go back to the first book in this series and I definitely hope there is a third one coming up!

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The Girl Who Loved Caravaggio
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