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Dante Alighieri
3 Reviews
(2)
YA
In the first half of a book echoing Dante's allegorical journey to hell, a magical-realism-threaded narrative alternates between Donovan trying to stay alive and Bee's later attempts to unravel what happened to Donovan, now unconscious and a suspect in his father's murder. The second half shifts--in tone and seemingly in genre--to a thriller. Readers will be engrossed in unraveling the mystery and piecing together events.
Reviewer: Christina L. Dobbs
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2018
(3)
YA
Team DEVIL returns as Viking prince Alfarin leads his fellow dead souls through the Nine Circles of Hell to find the Devil's Banshee--Satan's wife and the only being capable of protecting everyone from his most evil imaginings. This third book uses the series' (The Devil's Intern; The Devil's Dreamcatcher) signature blend of likable characters, strong friendships, dark humor, and horror to parallel Dante's Inferno.
Reviewer: Russell Perry
(3)
YA
Set in fourteenth-century Italy and based on known facts, this fictional account of the life of the daughter of Dante Alighieri is complex and demanding, not shying from the realities of civil war or the sophistication of the ideas that led to Dante's Divine Comedy. The setting is evoked with meticulous detail, and the character of Antonia "Bice" Alighieri is entirely believable.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
3 reviews
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