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I‘m about halfway through this. It‘s the first of three novellas that were combined to create The Gameshouse. I loved the premise: a casino on steroids in Venice where, if you are chosen, you compete with others to enter “the higher league.” But the story is told using an odd, omniscient narrator device in a style that gets very grating. And the writer thinks she is just a bit more of a wordsmith than she actually is. #kobo ⬇️

Audiobook. I am officially a Claire North fan. Two books read and both five stars. I'm going to finish this series and move on to her stand-alone novels.

Claire North (aka Catherine Webb and) Kate Griffin is an accomplished and imaginative writer. I loved her Matthew Swift books but her more recent work has passed me by. Her ideas are great and the Machiavellian Renaissance intrigue fast-paced and complex but the tone was too removed to really engage me and made the characters difficult to separate from their circumstances. #LRC16 #litsyreadingchallenge