The Botticelli Affair
Gorgeous, reformed art forger Laila Cambridge misses her father. She’s a grad student in art history and her father disappeared five years ago. She’s blocked writing her dissertation and she’s flat broke. She’s out drinking one night when she meets sexy, mysterious John Bolingbroke, who knows way too much about her. Then he bumps into her as she guides a tour around the Met. He tells her that her father is still alive—but in lethal danger.
Bolingbroke claims to be an art collector. Two weeks ago, he saw Robert Cambridge searching for a legendary lost Botticelli painting. Bolingbroke overheard a plot to pursue Robert, take the painting, and kill him. Bolingbroke knows that Laila has connections in the seedy art underworld; he wants Laila to help him find Robert and the painting. Time is short. The group pursuing Robert has unlimited resources. They have a week at most before the group murders her father.
From New York, through Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome, Laila pursues her father, the painting, and her own redemption.
*Spoiler-free!
The
Botticelly Affair is a book that has it all!
It has a
good paranormal element with a new world that unfolds and a few unexpected
turns.
It has a
good art background and although I don’t have a clue about art I found myself searching
the web to find all the artists and their works that are mentioned in this
book.
And it was a solid storyline one that will keep you at the edge of your seat and bite your nails at the same time.
And it was a solid storyline one that will keep you at the edge of your seat and bite your nails at the same time.
Laila is a former art forger with the unique ability to duplicate any painting with minimum effort, trying to survive the ups and downs of everyday life with her best friend Fern when she meets tall, dark and vampire who tells her that her long lost father might not be dead.
Laila and
John Bolingbroke begin a journey all over Europe and the U.S trying to find and
obtain a mythical Botticelly painting, a painting that contains secrets that
people would kill for.
The only thing that troubled me with this book is that the almost instant attraction Laila has for Bollingbroke seems fake and that her voice is at times immature.
If you by
pass those things then The Botticelly Affair is a book worth your time.
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