Review ‘The Echoes of Love’ by Hannah Fielding

Venetia Aston-Montagu has escaped to Venice to work in
her godmother’s architectural practice, putting a lost love behind her. For the
past ten years she has built a fortress around her heart, only to find the
walls tumbling down one night of the carnival when she is rescued from masked
assailants by an enigmatic stranger, Paolo Barone.

Drawn to the powerfully seductive Paolo, despite warnings
of his Don Juan reputation and rumours that he keeps a mistress, Venetia can’t
help being caught up in the smouldering passion that ignites between them.

When she finds herself assigned to a project at his
magnificent home deep in the Tuscan countryside, Venetia not only faces a
beautiful young rival but also a sinister count and dark forces in the shadows,
determined to come between them.

Can Venetia trust that love will triumph, even over her
own demons? Or will Paolo’s carefully guarded, devastating secret tear them
apart forever?

A while ago, Hannah Fielding approached me with the
question if I wanted to read and review her book ‘The Echoes of Love’. Since I’m
a big romance lover I was super excited about this book after reading the book
description. And when I received the book and saw the beautiful cover I wanted
to start reading this book immediately. So when the time came to start reading this
book I was so curious and excited.

‘The Echoes of Love’ is the story of Venetia
Aston-Montagu, an twenty eight year old English woman living in the romantic
city of Venice. Although this sounds like a fairy tale, Venetia wasn’t looking
for love. She loves Venice and the beautiful history of the city, but since her
first love broke her heart almost ten years ago, Venetia wasn’t a fan of men
and romance. But one night, she meets Paolo Barone a handsome thirty eight year
old with a reputation of being a Don Juan. Everything about Paolo makes Venetia
want to run and hide. But Paolo doesn’t give up fast and soon Venetia find
herself being under his spell. But there are a lot of secrets between them and
since life hasn’t been easy on both of them they most conquer a lot to be with each
other.

‘The Echoes of Love’ is unlike any other book I read. Hannah
Fielding’s writing is like reading poetry. Her writing is very detailed and
almost feels like your reading a book written in the Jane Austen era, although
it takes place in the present. The way Hannah Fielding writes makes you able to
almost ‘feel’ Venice, and the beautiful canals and bridges. I loved the way
Hannah described Venice and Italy throughout this book. It definitely made me
want to visit Italy and the beautiful towns.

Not only does Hannah describe the beautiful city but she
also, very thoroughly, describes the Italian food. And boy did she make me
hungry for Italian food.

The story of Venetia and Paolo was very beautiful. I
loved reading about them and the way Paolo tried to woo Venetia. At times I
found Venetia a little irritating because she just kept resisting and denying
her own feelings. Of course I understood why she acted that way, I just wanted
to tell her to stop being so difficult at times! (LOL)

This book was a beautiful love story. There is also a
little mystery in this book and there are a lot of secrets. The one thing I
found a little disappointing about this book was that I figured out early on
what was going on. It made the revelation at the end of the book not as
exciting as it was supposed to be.

But still, this book was an beautiful and very
interesting read and I would definitely recommend it. Hannah Fielding’s writing
is explicit and I can’t wait to read more from her. And a nice bonus, this book
makes you learn a little Italian! 😉 

Hannah Fielding is a novelist, a
dreamer, a traveller, a mother, a wife and an incurable romantic. The seeds for
her writing career were sown in early childhood, spent in Egypt, when she came
to an agreement with her governess Zula: for each fairy story Zula told, Hannah
would invent and relate one of her own. Years later – following a degree in
French literature, several years of travelling in Europe, falling in love with
an Englishman, the arrival of two beautiful children and a career in property development – Hannah decided after so many years of yearning to write that the
time was now. Today, she lives the dream: she writes full time, splitting her
time between her homes in Kent, England, and the South of France, where she
dreams up romances overlooking breath-taking views of the Mediterranean. 

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