Having dyslexia.Matt is unlikeable & uninteresting,īut then I had a hard time feeling very sympathetic ![]() We meet Matt, yet anotherĭisenchanted, teen. This 4th installation of the Stravaganza series Great for young adults (both guys and girls will enjoy these stories) and adults. I enjoy having the same characters revisit and also continue their own story through the new installments of this series.īottom line is I'm an adult and I throughly enjoyed this series. As the book series goes on, past characters show up along the way to help the new Stravagante learn the ropes of being in Tala. All her characters have richly developed personas and individual issues that traveling to "Talia" helps them with when they return back to their daily life. Hoffman definitely weaves together great characters with beautiful locations. The de Chimici family may closely resemble the de Medici family in certain aspects. Each book takes place in a sort of 'alternate history' town of Italy. You can read this book on its own, but it will enhance your experience with the series if you do start at the first book. I love them! Having been to Italy and also love Time Travel books, these novels have really been a great find. Since then I've continued to order the rest of them through Amazon. I found the first Stravaganza book in a used bookstore. will no doubt whet readers' appetites for Italian history and culture as well as the next installment."-Booklist starred review, on City of Masks PRAISE FOR STRAVAGANZA: "Utterly fascinating, this rich, rip-roaring adventure. She has three grown children, and lives with her husband in England. Mary has often traveled to research the settings for her many books set in Italy. MARY HOFFMAN is the author of the first three Stravaganza books, as well as The Falconer's Knot and the international bestseller, Amazing Grace. Beloved by fans of both fantasy and historical fiction, the Stravaganza series is more exciting than ever. Banding together, Matt and Luciano must resist the di Chimici family, who are on the verge of making a terrifying breakthrough Luciano has just killed the head of that family in a duel, and is in grave danger. He discovers that he is capable of traveling between two worlds when a leather-bound book transports him from his home in England to Talia, the parallel-world version of Italy, where he meets a fellow-Stravagante named Luciano-who is hiding from the powerful di Chimici family. Despite having a beautiful and very smart girlfriend, Matt is insecure because he is dyslexic. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.The latest installment in the critically acclaimed Stravaganza series begins with Matt, the new Stravagante. Sparks, formerly at Bowie Public Library, MDĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The action moves seamlessly from present to past as Nick struggles to maintain a balance between the two worlds while becoming stronger and more secure in both.- Leah J. The author's richly detailed, fully imagined world of Talia comes alive for her characters who "stravagate" there, and for readers as well. Secrets stands on its own, though teen fantasy and history buffs will likely clamor for the first three books in this wonderful series. Together, the two young men and Luciano's betrothed must find a way to stop a plot by the powerful de Chimici family to take over Talia. In Talia, he reads effortlessly and is apprenticed to a printmaker in the city-state of Padavia, where he befriends Luciano, a teenager from his own time and the protagonist in the first book in the series, Stravaganza: City of Masks (Bloomsbury, 2002). In his own time, Nick struggles with dyslexia and is insecure about his relationship with popular, beautiful Ayesha. Grade 9 Up-In this addition to the popular series, 17-year-old Nick discovers that he has the power to travel between his home in contemporary London and 16th-century Talia, a country in which some magic and sorcery is possible. ![]() MARY HOFFMAN is the author of the first three Stravaganza books, as well as The Falconer's Knot, Troubadour, and the international bestseller, Amazing Grace.
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