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    The Echoes of Love: A passionate story of secrets, loss, hope and haunting love in romantic Italy during the Millennium
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    The Echoes of Love: A passionate story of secrets, loss, hope and haunting love in romantic Italy during the Millennium
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    The Echoes of Love: A passionate story of secrets, loss, hope and haunting love in romantic Italy during the Millennium
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    The Echoes of Love: A passionate story of secrets, loss, hope and haunting love in romantic Italy during the Millennium

    By Hannah Fielding

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    Gold medallist: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Romance Category.'An epic love story that is beautifully told.'The Sun newspaper. Set in Venice,The Echoes of Loveis a beautiful, poignant story of lost love and betrayal, unleashed passion and learning to love again, whatever the price.Venetia Aston-Montaguehas escaped to Italy’s most captivating city to work in her godmother’s architectural practice, hoping to put a lost love behind her.Paolo Barone, a charismatic entrepreneur who bears the scars of a tragic past, is endeavoring to build a new life for himself.Venice on a misty carnival night brings these two people together.When Venetia finds herself assigned to Paolo’s magnificent country home, love blossoms in the beautiful hills of Tuscany and the wild Sardinian Maquis. But if they are to be together, they must first confront their past and dark forces in the shadows determined to come between them.Daring to love again after so many years, can Venetia overcome her own demons? Or will Paolo's carefully guarded, devastating secret tear them apart forever?

    Praise for Hannah Fielding:

    “Escape to the winding streets of Venice, where Venetia gets herself tangled up with charismatic stranger Paolo. He’s a Don Juan with a dangerous secret, and she has sworn that her heart is closed - butcan they resist their smouldering chemistry?”Inside Soap.

    “I absolutely adored the depth of the love story in The Echoes of Love, it felt almost voyeuristic to read. Fielding encapsulates the overwhelming experience of falling deeply, completely, utterly in love beautifully, and theglorious backdrop of Venice, eloquently described throughout, is the perfect setting for this romantic novel.”Books with Bunny

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLondon Wall Publishing
    Release dateFeb 10, 2014
    ISBN9780992671822
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    The Echoes of Love: A passionate story of secrets, loss, hope and haunting love in romantic Italy during the Millennium
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    Hannah Fielding

    HANNAH FIELDING is a multi-award winning romance author who was born and grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, the granddaughter of Esther Fanous, a revolutionary feminist and writer in Egypt during the early 1900s. Upon graduating with a BA in French literature from Alexandria University she travelled extensivelythroughout Europe and lived in Switzerland, France and England. After marrying her English husband, she settled in Kent and subsequently had little time for writing while bringing up two children, looking after dogs and horses, and running her own business renovating rundown cottages. Hannah now divides her time between her homes in Kent and the South of France. She has written four novels, Indiscretion and Masquerade (the first two titles in the Andalucían Nights Trilogy), Burning Embers, and The Echoes of Love, which won the Gold Medal for Romance at the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Silver Medal forRomance at the 2014 Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book Awards. Indiscretion was named the Gold winner in the 'Fiction: Romance' category of the 2015 USA Best Book Awards. Hannah is currently working on her new book, Legacy, the final title in the trilogy, which is due to be published in Spring 2016. She is a member of the association Romance Writers of America (RWA) and her website and blog can be found at www.hannahfielding.net

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    • 3/5
      This was a well-written romance novel. I appreciated the setting of Venice and other sites in Italy. I also enjoyed the plot which had an interesting twist at the end. I was less appreciative of the predictability of the typical romance novel with the lovers at one moment wanting to tear each other's clothes off and at the next vowing to not have anything to do with each other. The bedroom scenes were pretty steamy, which will appeal to some readers, but reminded me why I typically don't read romance novels anymore. Fortunately the many well-researched details of the country of Italy, including both architecture and culture, saved the book for me and made it a worthy read. The resolution of conflict in the story was also well-done and kept me interested throughout the book. The ending is a bit abrupt, but happy.I recommend this book to the romance reader who is looking for something a bit more interesting than the typical thin paperback love story. This book is a bit more sophisticated with a touch of mystery and intrigue involved, but at heart, it is a romance.I thank the publisher, author, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this title.
    • 3/5
      I was attracted to the book by the gorgeous cover. Venice is my favourite city - it is the most fabulous and romantic place to visit. The tale is beautifully descriptive and the imagery is wonderful. I liked the style of writing.However, I thought the plot was implausible and the love story was too sugary for my tastes. There is a hint of intrigue but the end reveal I found unbelievable. I also thought it was a little drawn out and some of the characters could have been more developed.All in all, The Echoes of Love is a truly romantic, passionate and picturesque fairy tale which would appeal to those readers who enjoy pure escapism.My thanks to Netgalley for sending me a copy of the Ebook to read and review.
    • 5/5
      The Echoes of Love, a novel by Hannah Fielding, opens in Venice in 2000. Venetia moved there from England in an attempt to build a new life for herself after suffering a life altering tragedy. She will not allow anyone else to ever hurt her again. One evening the mysterious Paolo saves her from an attack. Paolo has suffered a personal tragedy as well and even though he is known to be a playboy it is Venetia who captures his heart. Venetia is admittedly attracted to him, but does everything in her power to resist his attempts at romance. Paolo is a persistent man and just when it seems that he and Venetia can have true love their happiness is threatened. Shocking secrets are revealed and lives are changed. This is a stunningly told epic love story. By using lush imagery and beautiful prose the author has crafted a engrossing and passionate tale. The reader is transported to the wonders, culture and beauty of Venice and Tuscany.I found this to be a remarkable novel and I highly recommend reading it.
    • 3/5
      I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. This is an odd book for me to rate because I found the first half of the book to be 2 stars, but the second half was 4 stars. My final rating for this is 3 stars, which is the average of the two. On an unrelated note, when I first saw that one of the epigraphs was an excerpt from Burnt Norton I was really happy. I love that poem mainly because Lana Del Rey recites it for her interlude on her Honeymoon album and I love Lana Del Rey. So the first half of the book was 2 things: slow and cringe worthy. In regards to its slowness, I thought that it took way too long to get to Tuscany. It took nearly 150 pages for our main character, Venetia, to finally get there. I felt like the story didn’t actually start until she arrived. A lot of the first half of the book was Venetia being wishy washy towards Paolo. She would think to herself, I love Paolo. Then the next page she would be like, I don’t love Paolo. That continued regularly until about half way through and made the book go by so slowly. I got pretty annoyed with her because she could not make up her mind. A good portion of the first half could have been removed because it was all really repetitive.As for the cringe worthy parts, there were two lines in particular that drove me nuts. The first line described Venetia as having “neither racial or social prejudices” (41). Like okay. That’s kind of an odd thing to say in a book. The second line was when Venetia asked the Chinese fortune teller, “How come you speak such perfect English” (98). As someone who is half Asian, I really have an issue with that. It just adds to the perpetual foreigner stereotype that gets attached to Asians. It wasn’t even a necessary question for the story. Another thing that had me cringing was how predatory the males were in the beginning. Count Umberto was so horrible and even Paolo was a bit too much with his constant demands. But then the book moved to Tuscany and things got a whole lot better. Paolo and Venetia became less annoying. There were conflicts which finally got the story moving (I loved Allegra’s character. She was really interesting). The romance finally heated up. A lot of the time it reminded me of Jane Eyre and Beauty and the Beast, which isn’t surprising considering Beauty and the Beast (the original fairy tale version) is mentioned on page 304 and Jane Eyre is mentioned in the author’s Q and A at the end of the book. I could definitely see the inspiration and since I love both of those I did end up enjoying the second half. As for the big reveal at the end, I had already figured it out by that point so I wasn’t super surprised by it. Overall, this wasn’t the best romance due to its overly long beginning but the second half saved this book from becoming a disaster. I’m am curious to read more from Hannah Fielding because out of all her books on Goodreads this one has the lowest average rating of only 3.66. All her other books have an average rating of over 4. I’m hoping that this book was just a fluke and not representation of her writing as a whole.