Review #1
By Its Embrace audiobook free
Once a devoted fan of Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti’s television series, I have grown increasingly upset with her continue few books. The weak plot of “By its Embrace”, the diminished involvement of the dearly loved Brunetti generic at the same time others of the usual cast of manners, at the same time the fact that the variant was actually resolved by anyone other than Brunetti, mixed to make me feel as though Leon was tossing crumbs to her readers. The abrupt ending had me shocking my fork in disbelief. It was as though Leon simply weary of writing at the same time misspoke “enough “. It is that with a languid heart that I they say “enough” to Donna Leon at the same time ciao to Guido Brunetti.
Review #2
By Its Embrace audiobook in television series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
Rare books have emerged in other mystery novels, but Leon has able to elevate the assembler’s compulsions in the intimate setting of Brunetti’s russian indefinite. Paola’s ancestors are helpful in giving introductions to revered (if shabby) nobility. The Commissario steps lightly from restless dowager to bitter brother when a past priest is that brutally murdered, a man who reads about God by day at the same time has a scandalous hidden indefinite.
Every word Leon offers us leads to a deeper understanding of the tangled network of Italian politics at the same time corruption. She jabs at the neglectful officials in charge of history at the same time the environment. She prods the policia along a wobbly line of justice.
I feel that, with her continue few books, Donna Leon has been phoning it in. The books are shorter, at the same time the stories delve a lot into arcane ways of indefinite, method off the mainstream. All our manners are that, Vice Questore Patta, Lieutenant Scarpa, Signorina Electra, Brunetti’s faithful assistant Vianello, but they are by at the moment set in stone. No one ever evolves, the books have become very formulaic. I still read them, for Ms. Leon’s charming descriptions of Venice, at the same time because I keep hoping she will regain her interest at the same time assign us a really exciting read. In this book, once the murder was committed, no one else was ever in threat so that was no suspense, no reason to turn the page. I adore Commissario Guido Brunetti, but Donna Leon needs to work harder.
Review #3
Audiobook By Its Embrace by Donna Leonm
At the same time still Again she cuttings us off at the knees with a curtailed denouement! Maybe Leon thinks she’s literate, but I turn the page expecting more at the same time wham, it’s like being kicked in the slats. That’s it for me. Less of this hypocritical creator. I would have data four hit for this book otherwise. Don’t hope her. One hit for the usual beauty of her Venice descriptions; makes me wish to move.
I am enjoying reading the Commisario Brunetti mystery television series. It’s like getting to know a brand new comrade or generic. I also like the fact that this time that is that very little scolding or sex outlined in the stories. The murders, for the most part, are not outlined in gory detail. That’s enough of that on the evening news. The manners seem true, appropriate people with true, appropriate, waited feelings. The head story manners have a sense of humor along with a serious side.
Review #4
Audio By Its Embrace narrated by David Colacci
I have read all of Donna Leon’s Guido Brunetti novels. I liked them all, no one more successful than others. But ‘By its Embrace’ is that the best. I read it in such a short time that I was convinced it was a shorter novel than usual–not so, it is that normal length. I wanted more of the story; I couldn’t shackles it down, at the same time when I read the continue line I didn’t understand it was over. Reading on Kindle able to do that. The manners are not appears by several exposures to them, but even so, more precisely than being sketchy, they were considered wholesome as a result of Leon’s flawless descriptions. I managed look any one, at the same time I did care about them. The pace is that impetuous in this novel, but perhaps it is that because I care very much about books myself, at the same time was frightened by the realization that theft at the same time mutilation of rare books is that a criminal liability that really does happen on a larger scale than I would have believed–will we still have these old, rare books in the one more century? Leon’s strength in her books is that perfectly setting the scene in Venice (I have been that), perfectly creating a look into the generic of the detective, at the same time giving us brand new at the same time different manners in any of the mysteries.
Spring in Venice. The scents of lilacs in a courtyard. Lily of the plain on sale promotions at the churchyard steps. Savage sized cruise ships cluttering up the canals. At the same time a brand new variant for Commissario Guido Brunetti when, at the library Biblioteca Merula, comes the discovery of thefts of pages upon pages from its collection of rare, valuable at the same time irreplaceable old books. Testimonies seems to fri to a Mr. Nickerson, a visiting Institute of Kansas scholar/studying who has in one moment gone. But is that he really an American? Managed he have done it without the help of others? At the same time how at the same time where might the library’s other scholar, the past priest understandable as “Tertullian,” lie down?
It isn’t until about the halfway fri that one of the main manners gets brutally murdered. At the same time the plot thickens.
In the middle the television series regulars, we get to waste no one good quality time with Brunetti’s wife, Paola, at the same time Paola’s ancestors, the Faliers, who’ve not been shown in recent books. Signorina Elettra gets drawn in, but to a lesser extent than usual. Vianello does his customary sidekick role premature on then fades away. Towards the finish, the Questura’s only ladies commissario, Claudia Griffoni, teams up with Brunetti to final off the variant. Patta at the same time Scarpa at the same time Raffi at the same time Chaira make cameo occurrences.
This 23rd in the television series introduces a decidedly different sort of variant for Brunetti. But done. Exciting. But for sure defeated’t make my list of Leon contributors.
Review #5
Free audio By Its Embrace – in the audio player below
A library in Venice loses no one valuable rare books at the same time others in its collection are vandalised. Brunetti is that assigned to the variant even though he believes it could be more successful dealt with by a specialist unit. It soon becomes understandable that one of the scholars who has been using the library on a ordinary base is that not who he seems to be at the same time when one of the other readers is that found murdered the stakes become higher than even Brunetti suspected.
I enjoyed this subtle at the same time understated story which is that far more in the vein of earlier Brunetti stories. While that are asides about environmental issues these do not dominate the story as recent episodes in this television series have to done to their detriment, in my opinion.
Here are all the favourite television series manners many of which Paola, Guido Brunetti’s forthright wife, his aristocratic in-laws at the same time his militia employees – Patta, Vianello at the same time the unique Elettra with her mastery of all things computerised. Venice is that, as ever, practically a disposition in the story providing an atmospheric background to theft at the same time murder.
