Eternal - Lisa Scottoline

 Eternal  - Lisa Scottoline

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 I’ve read a number of books of this era and genre the past year and didn’t know if I was quite up to yet another one with all its heartbreak and inhumanity. Still, it is important that books such as these continue to be written and read….we must never forget and, hopefully, use the lessons from these books to become better human beings….or at least less hateful to each other.  

This well written novel follows the lives of a number of characters, but it is never confusing.  The characters are so charming that I almost didn’t want to read on because I knew the fate that would await some of them.  The story, which stretches in time from 1937 to 1957 is heart wrenching, yet hopeful.  Well researched, with a great sense of place… Rome, the Eternal City.  It is a long novel, but the story moves quickly. It is a powerful read.  

*****