Author: Saundra Mitchell
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Pages: 304
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Format: Galley via NetGalley
There are three things that will ALWAYS make me pick up a book: 1) historical setting. 2) female main character. 3) Love interest who is an artist/musician/bohemian-type person. Being drawn to these types of stories, I have read many of them, some good, some very opposite of good. And I am glad to report that The Vespertine is great.
I wasn't sure if I'd like this book at first. It's told through narrative flashbacks of Amelia van der Broeck's disastrous summer spent in Baltimore. The first couple of chapters are pretty Debbie Downer-y and I was concerned that the entire book would be told in a very gray tone. But as soon as the story of Amelia's time in Baltimore launched, I was hooked.
