Falling in Love audiobook
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Review #1
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Review #2
Falling in Love audiobook in series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
Like many other reviewers of this book I am a serial reader of the Brunetti stories. I find them the literary equivalent of comfort eating; I know Brunetti isn’t going to be killed, nor are any of his sidekicks (though I seem to remember his boat pilot died in a much earlier story). In short, they are decent stories, generally well written and never too traumatic.
In recent years the plots and story lines have slowed considerably and I have to admit from time to time I’ve put the books down part-way through and gone on to other books, only to return later and find it easy enough to pick up where I left off. Falling in Love is a gentle enough story for the most part and I read it over a few days on holiday, but I have to say I am puzzled by the outcome. I have commented on the plot itself right at the end in case it might be a spoiler for the many people who haven’t read it (though I’ve tried to ensure not to do that)
One unwelcome development is the metamorphosis of Brunetti’s wife Paola into a person who seems no longer to have any interest in life. It appears she wants to feed her husband and kids, wash the dishes and then be locked in her ‘study’ to read books for all her waking time, ultimately to be released into the world again at some point later spouting quotes from ancient philosophers or medieval poets. Where is the woman who in an earlier story was arrested for smashing a travel shop window in a protest?
There are typos and inaccuracies too, which you wouldn’t expect for someone as well-published as this author. The Italian police hierarchy is probably no more complicated than anyone else’s, but there are different types of police and the ranks are not the same as in Britain. Nevertheless, Vianello starts off being described as a sergeant, then later reverts to his familiar rank of Inspector. Maybe they are effectively the same thing in Italy but it’s confusing to the reader. I hope Donna Leon reads her Amazon reviews – I know she is busy but there are not many more than a hundred on this site and Paola would gobble that up in one lock-in.
Now for the plot. After I’d finished the book, I asked myself a question. After a painstaking investigation, hampered as always by the very rude egotist Patta, and after following various lines of enquiry, did Brunetti and Vianello contribute anything whatsoever to the resolution of the crime? I’m quite certain they didn’t. In fact, their negligence at the end is so jaw-dropping that readers will be saying to themselves “NO – for goodness’ sake don’t do that!” It is so unbelievable that you have to believe there is some much bigger reason for doing what they do (or more accurately, not doing what they don’t do)
I am one book behind in the series so maybe in the one I haven’t read Donna Leon has got back on form but if not, and if she is reading this, Donna, please: give Paola her life back (maybe you could have a small fire in her ‘study’ and redevelop it as a games room for the kids) and let’s make sure when Brunetti solves a crime he actually follows up to prevent anything else happening, rather than what happened in Falling in Love. I am left asking what if…? Where would Brunetti’s career have gone with Patta and the odious Scarpa sniffing around if the victim had not been as clever?
Review #3
Audiobook Falling in Love by Donna Leonm
To read Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries is to fall in love with Venice, a city to which we will never have access because we are only tourists distracted by the gondolas and the rich polenta and the beautiful men. Brunetti is a native married to an aristocrat. He is a thinking man’s detective who rarely carries a gun and uses his brains to solve cases. But the reader suspects it is his wife Paola, a Henry James scholar, who has the bigger IQ. This mystery is heady — about a bisexual opera singer and her violent stalker — and a little anticlimactic as mysteries go. By the time we know who the aggressor is, the story’s interest begins to wane. The on-stage climax after a penultimate performance of “Tosca” is, well, anticlimactic. But to walk the bridges in Brunetti’s shoes, to stop in the cafes and restaurants, and get inside his head as he contemplates his wife and children is as delicious as risotto. He is a man who loves women, written by a woman of empathy and intelligence (the exquisite Donna Leon). One of the things I love the most about her books is the sense of Venetian justice — or lack thereof. While this particular novel ends with a sense of completion, Leon is unafraid to portray a society where justice can be bought, and where the do-right man has to be an expert in bureaucratic subterfuge in order to achieve a sense of balance between right and wrong.
Review #4
Audio Falling in Love narrated by David Colacci
Unlike many mystery writers who continue to churn out stories that are increasingly formulaic, Donna Leon, with only one or two exceptions, improves her craft with each new book. Thus Falling in Love is one of her best.
Flavia, the opera singer who was at the center of Leon’s first book, Death at La Fenice, reappears here. She is no longer a suspect, but a victim of a stalker.
The story unfolds against the background of Puccini’s Tosca, which plays a central role, and the beauty and politics of Venice. As usual, Guido Brunetti’s duels with his boss, Vice-Questore Patta, aided by the efficient and enigmatic Signorina Eletra, provide the comic relief, which in this case comes close to being side-splitting.
Review #5
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There are many types of love in our world ranging from a true love and at the other end an intense infatuation. This story so parallels much of our fiction from the past such as classic tales and multiple dramas from current literature. It also explores today’s occurrences reviewed in the media sources available to us. Flavia as well as Brutinelli are given a chance to review their careers their lives as choices good or bad…as in the opera “Tosca” the cost of love and hate are deliberated by the heroine whether she will dwell in Hades as her committing murder of the villain and her subsequent suicide will trump the cruel actions and he will be judged to live in Hell for eternity rather than she because her actions came from true love …the author’s tale moves slowly giving the reader plenty of time to guess who the evil one could be!
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