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Lucien is seriously ill but his life is transformed when an old Italian notebook gives him the power to become a stravagante, a time traveller with access to th century Italy He wakes up in Bellezza Venice during carnival time and meets Arianna, a girl his own age who is disguised as a boy in the hope of being selected as one of the Duchessa s mandoliers Arianna gives Lucien her boy s clothing and he is selected as a mandolier himself, becoming a friend of fellow stravagante Rodolfo, the Duchessa s lover, and saving the Duchessa s life when she is threatened by an assassin hired by the powerful di Chimici family For state occasions the Duchessa uses her maid Giuliana as a body double but Guiliana commits the fatal mistake of revealing the secret to her fiance Enrico and a sequence of devastating consequences unravels Meanwhile Lucien has met the original stravagante, the Elizabethan alchemist William Dethridge, and he begins to understand that he may be called to follow in his footsteps [PDF / Epub] ★ Longbow Girl ✪ Linda Davies – Lavons.co.uk a time traveller with access to th century Italy He wakes up in Bellezza Venice during carnival time and meets Arianna [EPUB] ✻ On His Naughty List ❀ Jessica Jarman – Lavons.co.uk a girl his own age who is disguised as a boy in the hope of being selected as one of the Duchessa s mandoliers Arianna gives Lucien her boy s clothing and he is selected as a mandolier himself [PDF / Epub] ☆ Fire Colour One Author Jenny Valentine – Lavons.co.uk becoming a friend of fellow stravagante Rodolfo [Download] ➶ Invisible Wounds By Kay Douglas – Lavons.co.uk the Duchessa s lover ❮Download❯ ➽ A City Possessed ➸ Author Lynley Hood – Lavons.co.uk and saving the Duchessa s life when she is threatened by an assassin hired by the powerful di Chimici family For state occasions the Duchessa uses her maid Giuliana as a body double but Guiliana commits the fatal mistake of revealing the secret to her fiance Enrico and a sequence of devastating consequences unravels Meanwhile Lucien has met the original stravagante [Reading] ➿ Her Husbands Mistake Author Sheila O& – Lavons.co.uk the Elizabethan alchemist William Dethridge ❰EPUB❯ ✺ Mr Dove Über Den Wassern Author Maurice Shadbolt – Lavons.co.uk and he begins to understand that he may be called to follow in his footsteps
Cute That a the first thing that comes to mind when I think of this book Cute and mostly harmless Adorable and sweet, but unfortunately just not too memorable Like a decent fast food meal, it s satisfying but not too nutritious.This is a story of a teenage boy dying from cancer in contemporary England, who accidentally discovers a way to travel to an alternate reality that closely resem
Unfortunately, this is another example of a great concept ruined by bad storytelling Our protagonist and I use that lightly is Lucian, a boy with cancer who discovers he can travel to a different world a pseudo Venice as it were through the acquisition of a magical notebook However, this ability is never really the foundation of the plot instead, Miss Hoffman tends to write where the wind take
7.5 out of 10 This review on my blogLiving A Thousand Livesplease use Chrome Yandex browser or Android IOS to see the page otherwise, spoiler tags I use to make my post compact may not work Short Soundtrack Nilda Fernandez L invitation VenisePaul Cardall The TravelerLucas Vidal New Found LifeGenre AU, historical fantasy, teen ish YAStuff time travels, AU Italy, 16th century, cancerWOW world buildingP
This year I m doing a Reading Challenge so I have 26 books with specific subjects that I need to read.Book 24 A book set somewhere you really want to visitIt s been long since a dream for me to visit Venice As a little girl I was always mesmerized by the beauty of its watery streets, colorful city scape and mosaics This wanderlust have not since diminish.City of Masks gave me an opportunity to visit not on
This is a book from my childhood circa age 11 that I am so happy to have picked up again now I m not even really that interested in Italy, but I certainly dig the idea of inter dimensional space and time travel I m re reading all of the books in the Stravaganza series by Mary Hoffman in accordance to the release of the newest sequel, City of Sercrets So far, I ve read City of Masks and I started City of Stars last
DNF at 22%I was very excited to start this one because one of my all time favorite concepts is TIME TRAVEL There s nothing better than the fascination one gets when they find themselves in another place, in another time, be it in the future or in the past I love that sense of awe and wonder characters get in such books I think it s related to my love for both history and traveling, so you really can t blame me for the ma
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Rating 4 out of 5 stars maybe even 3.5 Wait, what Quite a low rating to be on an all time favourites list, I know I won t lie objectively this series may not be the best ever written Frankly, I am not even sure I am capable of judging them in that aspect I read these books together with my mother when I was probably 11 My mother was already very sic
Summary view spoiler Lucien Mulholland isn t what you d call a normal boy Despite becoming ill from a tumor and recovering from chemotherapy, Lucien s life was somewhat normal compared to the situation he finds himself in now For after being given a red and purple marbled notebook by his father as a gift, Lucien falls asleep only to dream of the floating city of Bellezza, where his adventures begin.Arianna may be the daughter of all T
In modern day London, Lucien Mulholland undergoes chemotherapy treatments due to the cancer plaguing his body, but when he falls asleep clutching a mysterious book his father has given him, he is transported, or stravagated, to an enchanting 16th century Venice like city called Bellezza, in the country Talia.Lucien can return only if he can get hold of the book again while thinking of Belleza In this colorful other world, rich with court int
recently re read this series for the hundredth or so time, and once again the story did not fail to draw me in Original, fascinating, exciting love it.