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Dear Mrs. Goodman,
When I got an ARC of your latest book, “The Night Villa,” I had no idea of what to expect. But it sounded intriguing and I put it in my TBR short stack. After all, one doesn’t find heroines who are Classics Professors every day of the week.
I love books which open new avenues of thought and which make me want to begin investigating things from them. I adore books which teach me new things or add to my knowledge base. “The Night Villa” does both. I mean, who hasn’t heard of the famous historical eruption of Mt. Vesuvius? Who hasn’t at least seen the names Pompeii and Herculaneum? The fact that processes are now available to allow modern researchers to “read” the carbonized papyrus rolls that were buried by the pyroclastic flows is amazing. That you’ve taken this and used it as the basis for your novel is inventive to say the least.
Several reviews have described the book as an academic thriller as well as one which, due to the inclusion of classical references, is suited to more literary readers. Though I decry the …
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