14. The Evelyn Project - Kfir Luzzatto

Read on my iPhone

2012 Kindle edition, Pine Ten LLC

305 pgs.

Adult CRF/Mystery (supposedly)

Finished 2/9/15

Goodreads rating: 3.83 (30 ratings)

My rating:  1 - Yuck

Setting: Contemporary London, Italy, Austria

1st sentence/s: "London welcomed Franco back as he alighted on the sunny sidewalk, right after the end of his weekly student reception hour, by cunningly thrusting upon him an elderly millionaire who spoke in riddles."

My comments:  I hate reviewing a book when I don't like it, but I guess I've got to be honest.  I didn't like this story - or the storytelling - at all.  It was all tell, no show.  It was like the author made an outline and then filled in a few nouns and verbs.  No character development and very little plot development....nothing surprising or disconcerting, and no reason to read through until the end.  Yuck.

Goodreads book summary:  A loving father's cry for help gets into the wrong hands, and a hundred years later things get out of control.
          Evelyn’s father did everything that was in his power to save his dying daughter, black magic included. But when a century later his plea for help gets into the wrong hands, all hell breaks loose.
          Caught in the slippery battlefield between the Vatican and a cult that wants to change the past, a young Italian professor and a beautiful French aspiring actress are too busy running away from murder and conspiracy to let physical attraction develop into love.
          And it doesn’t help that Her Majesty's Secret Service decides to take an interest in what everybody else is doing and to pull some strings of its own. Quite the contrary, in fact…