Amalia Angellinni Lovefool, Book review by PoTomek

The neighbour read the Polish edition of Lovefool and she liked it. I liked the most the word „dziewczyniarski“ [girlish, a new born word].

I am no fan of „dziewczyniarskie“ stuffs like books, romances and such things, but in this whole Lovefool I found two things that I liked.

First: Scholar promotes people who brings something in Europe. The main characters got Polish nationality and are shown as today Europeans: they are active, assertive, stylish and know what they want.

A trip to Berlin is not a problem, they just got in a train and start a journey in the same way like they travel to a wonderful Wroclaw or Warsaw, that appears every now and then in the background, or Masuria (my neighbour was screaming from joy, becuase Mragowo was introduced).

The second thing: because of the mix of cultures in Europe and different influences in the cultural development in Europe, we see quite good described person, one of the main characters and the most interesting one: Julian as connection of these all features. He, as a being more powerful than a human is, cumulates in himself myths and legends from Ancient Rome, Greeks up to the Viking Era.

This is quite a risky idea, but it introduces values that are near to every European, because it’s basement of our European values and it connects us. Scholar proved once more that Europe and Europeans can be promoted in a good way, not only through political debates, but through young artists.

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Posted on 23 July '10 by , under Book reviews.

3 Comments to “Amalia Angellinni Lovefool, Book review by PoTomek”

#1 Posted by Maya (23.07.10 at 16:58 )

Hello Amalia, I just saw your new blog and it’s wonderful. I like your book and I can’t wait to read the second part of it.
I think all book reviews published here are very good and I wouldn’t write it better. I appreciate you writing about European values, even if it is not trendy and hot an stylish on the US-market, but it is important to know which cultural background we have and why we developed the world so much and so far.
Thank you for a marvelous story and I hope to read Lovefool 2 soon!
Maya, Kiel

#2 Posted by Alice (23.07.10 at 17:32 )

it sounds so good that i read samples of lovefool and if i like it then i read the complete book and then i write my own book review.

#3 Posted by Marvin (25.07.10 at 13:30 )

The rise and fall of the myths about gods over centuries, many explanations of the world and supernatural beings in our human world and religion issues have fascinated not just people, but historians, psychologists and other professionals for hundreds of years. Angellinni tells her own story and this is a very creative issue. I hope to read further details about her version, about her myth, because it is better than the entire vampire things and makes much sense. I adore the fact that a young writer brings so much innovation and fresh wind into the world of books.
The rest of the story related to the relationships between characters is complicated and sometimes looks like classical structure of a novel, but the new conception based on European stories and myths is unique. Therefore, the book can be liked by people, who don’t like love stories at all.