Hi Amico,
Todays book review is Ultima by L.S Hilton, after watching programs like White collar I am interested in books that revolve Art crime. So I was very interested in reading Ultima for that reason.
Judith Rashleigh is in trouble, she is caught in the middle of the Russian Mafia and a corrupt Italian police inspector. There is only one way for Judith to survive and that is to fake piece of masterpiece and sell it for over $150 million. Judith knows she can do this as her life as Elizabeth Teerlinc international art dealer is all a lie.
The thrill of creating the fake and getting one over on the auction house that fired her years ago are added bonuses to the deal.
The spotlight is on Judith, can her fake identity and fake masterpiece fool the Art world, or will she end up with a bullet in the back of her head.
I haven’t read the first two books in this series Maestra and Domina, I think if I have read these two I would have understood Judith world more. Ultima does cover topic/ relationships that have happened in previous book so you can still enjoy the book.
Judith is a not your average leading lady, she is a dark character. She is willing to kill anyone that gets in her way and feels no remorse. She is incredible smart and very good at pretending to be whoever the person what her to be. One of my favourite elements of the book is her figuring out her next step, and how she plays the other characters.
Ultima has some great action sequences that keeps flipping the pages, I did find that in-between the action the story did lagged in places. Although I find the processing of faking the art and the wheeling and dealing of the art world interesting, I felt that it went on a little bit to long or into too much detail.
Thank you to Bonnie Zaffre for sending me a copy of the book for a fair and honest review.
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Thanks for reading,
Gem x
