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🌟🌟🌟 BOOK REVIEW 🌟🌟🌟
Title: The Villa
Author: Rachel Hawkins
Pages: 288
My Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
My Thoughts:
The Villa is my third book that I have read by Rachel Hawkins and is by far my favorite! It is full of twists & turns and when you think you have things figured out, there is another twist! I absolutely LOVED this book!!!
This book is told from dual POV’s and alternates between timelines...Mari in 1974 and Emily is present day.
Mari starts the story off - she is an aspiring writer who is in love with a free loving musician, Pierce. When Mari’s step sister, Lara, invites them to go to Italy and spend the summer at Villa Rosato in Orvieto so that Pierce can work with the famous rocker, Noel Gordon, they jump at the opportunity in hopes that it can launch Pierce’s career Lots of drama happens that ends with a murder! After returning from that summer, Mari writes an award winning book called ‘Lilith Rising’ which loosely tells the story of what happened at the villa.
Emily is an author struggling to get her next book out while dealing with a divorce. Her childhood best friend, Chess, tempts her with a summer in beautiful Italy! Once Emily finds out that they will be staying in the murder house, she becomes obsessed with the murder. She reads ‘Lilith Rising’ multiple times and thinks there is more to the story that needs to be told. Instead of continuing her cozy mystery series she decides to go a different direction!
This book kept me on the edge of my seat! I think the characters are very well written and the story is very captivating…I finished this book in a day! I absolutely love how both timelines blend together to tell this story!
Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martins Press and Rachel Hawkins for the Advanced Readers copy of this book for my honest review!