The Innamorati

I've begun a new personal challenge of reading all the Mythopoeic and World Fantasy Award winners. I've already read just over twenty over the years and I have about eighty to go. This challenge should last me about 2 years or so. So my blog entries will have mostly fantasy reviews for a while. The first of this new challenge is a Mythopoeic winner from 2001. It's an alternate Renaissance Italy with some interesting magic based on mythology and the Commedia dell'Arte. Innamorati itself means the lovers, stock characters from the Commedia whose sole purpose was to fall in love and win in the end. I learned a lot about the Commedia in this very interesting and well written novel. It was very intriguing and once I got my bearings in the book, was really gripped by it.

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