Title: Escape To Florence
Author: Kat Devereaux
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Source: e-book ARC ( 272 p.) NetGalley
Description:
Moving between the Second World War and the present, an exhilarating debut novel in the vein of Jennifer Robson, Kate Quinn, and Natasha Lester, about two women, decades apart, whose fates converge in Florence, Italy. Only fourteen, Stella Infuriati is the youngest member of her town’s resistance network during World War II. Risking torture and death, she relays messages, supplies, and weapons to partisan groups in the Tuscan hills. Her parents have no idea, consumed instead by love and fear for their beloved son, Achille, a courier and unofficial mechanic for a communist partisan brigade. Then, after 1945, Stella seemingly vanishes from the records. Her name and story are overshadowed by the tragic death of her brother—until a young writer arrives in Tuscany in the spring of 2019, uncovering long-buried secrets. Fleeing an emotionally abusive marriage and a lonely life on an isolated estate, Tori MacNair has come to Florence, the beautiful city her grandmother taught her to love, to build a new life. As she digs into her family history with the help of Marco, a handsome lawyer, Tori starts to uncover secrets of the past—truths that stretch back decades, to a young woman who risked everything to save her world . . .
My Thoughts:
This book was an incredible journey that takes Tori McNair from Scotland to Florence after her grandmother's death and needing to leave her husband who isn't good for her. She learns about her family mainly her grandmother's life prior to getting married.
It also takes us to a young girl named Stella whose working with the resistance to fight what is happening in Italy back during WWII and in, This life for Stella was hard if not difficult at times. But definitely worth the adventure as we see how she changes through the years and what happened to her when paper trails of her evaporate. No one knows what happened to her after 1945. What became of her?
I really enjoyed the writing and story telling in this book. I had only wished that Tori's family was more understanding to her and her situation. (Don't want to give any spoilers I'm not that kind of reviewer :) ). It was great to see Tori make her own choices without other people impacting her.
I think people who love Kate Quinn and even those who like Susan Elia MacNeal. She keeps you captivated to your seat wanting to see what happens and how the story will play out and you can also feel like you are there with everyone in WWII.
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