Beautiful Ruins

Short review: An intertwining story of that ranges over 50 years, two continents and many characters. This is both a well written book and an excellently narrated audiobook (I alternated between kindle and audiobook). It starts in 1962 Italy and moves back and forth between modern day Hollywood. There are a lot of characters and while there is a point for all of them, there might be a few too many of them. That is really my only complaint. I love the intertwining stories. I like the various types of love stories. I like even more that the love stories tend to focus more on commitment than personal fulfillment. It is not a perfect, everything is happy in the end book. But it is reasonably happy (and makes sense when it is not). And the characters are mostly likable (or at least understandable.) This is actually a popular fiction book that really lives up to the hype. I alternated between 4 and 5 stars and would give 4.5 if I could. It was very good, but I don't know it would be a book that I would re-read, which is why I ended up on 4 stars.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/beautiful-ruins/