Review of Melyssa's Italian Project

[Nenye Lauraa]

[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Melyssa's Italian Project" by Simon Potter.]

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5 out of 5 stars

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This fiction book set in a 2024 timeline convinced me that dreams are sometimes premonitions of things that will happen or glimpses of things that have already happened. Either way, the story illustrates that dreams, especially recurrent ones, may be trying to tell us more about things we aren't aware of and teaches us not to always discard some of our dreams that bother us as something unreal.

In Melyssa's Italian Project by Simon Potter, 29-year-old Melyssa Mosengo has recurrent nightmares of a black tower. She leaves her teaching job in Bristol to join her brother T-ray’s design business in London. They land a project to design a theater, Il Torre del Purgatorio, for famous opera star Emilio Monza. The book talks about what happened before Melyssa found out about the Black Tower, what happened when she found out, and what happened after she did. After everything unfolded, she realized why she had the recurring nightmares in the first place. Get this book to find out all that happened after she took on the project.

The book is fabulous. I love that I learned new words like brusque, crass, acquiesced, fledgling, obsequious, and so on. I always have a nice feeling whenever I improve my vocabulary. I also learned a little about how life can be in Bristol and Italy and discovered the names of some places in Italy like Lucca, Chiantishire, and the like. The author's writing style and choice of unique phrases like fair bum, dishy cousin, jumping Jehosaphat, sodding interested, heebie-jeebies, and so on also further endeared the book to me.

I really liked the fact that the story had a 2024 setting, and I discovered that sweet-scented cigarettes were a thing. I did not dislike anything about the book, as the pages were well numbered and no feature disrupted my reading flow. I would rate it five out of five stars because it was educative, had the ability to engage me, and the story was passed in a clear and concise manner. I also recommend it to people who love romance and a happy ending.

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Melyssa's Italian Project
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