City of Flowers

An excellent young Adult series cleverly incorporating time travel from current day to an alternative Italy. The first in the series, City of Masks, hooked me. Each book can be read individually and thoroughly enjoyed. However reading the series explains a background from some of the characters. An interesting depiction of time travel and absorbing details about Italy. Unfortunately the title may be offputting for male readers, however the stories are all equally enjoyable for everyone.

all i have to say is : READ THIS IT IS AMAZING, IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER (and that is not an exsageration)JUST LIKE IT CHANGED MINE!!!! YOU WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!! I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE NOT A TEENAGER; READ IT!!!!!! *dont read this before City of Masks and City of Stars!!!

Being the third in the series of Strvaganza, don't read this until you have read the first two books: City of Masks and City of Stars! You'll be hooked after you finish the first book ! Unimaginably irresitable to read!!!!! Filled with intrigue, mystery, love, adventure, and magic, this is a book for any age level! What are you waiting for? Start reading!

I loved the first one in this series and this one is no different. The setting of the story is wonderfully described and gives ground for a plot that is sure to arouse one's curiosity. The delicate web of the colorful characters upon which the book revolves around becomes even more vivid in this fabulous book. I could barely get anthing accomlished I was so intent on finding out what happened next. I highly recommend this book for any reader who desires a mysterious, passionate, and irresistible read.

WOW! Mary Hoffman really concluded the series nicely! But I still like the second book, City of Stars, better. So, here's a summary: Sky goes to the same school as Georiga and Lucien (previous stravagantes) and Nicholas (who used to live in Talia, a parallel world of Italy). He finds a fragrant bottle left on his doorstep, and it turns out to be a talisman that takes him to a friar's- Brother Sulien- cell in Giglia (Florence in Italy). In Giglia, there are going to be four di Chimici weddings. There is probably going to be a murder there by the Nucci clan (a rival of the di Cimici) and the stravagantes are preparing for the danger. A lot of people of both Nucci and di Chimici families are either wounded or hurt, and Niccolo ends up challenging Luciano to a duel, which if I describe too much, will give everything away! There is a little bit of romance in this book too... and Georgia and Nicholas are going to go back. I would DEFINITELY recommend it!