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Douce Menace

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256 pages, Paperback

Published August 20, 2025

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Léa Simone Allegria

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237 reviews18 followers
July 17, 2025
Une plongée dans l’Italie de Caravage, où deux personnages tourmentés par un amour torturé, cherchent à découvrir la vérité sur un tableau déniché chez un antiquaire. Est-ce un Caravage ? Une copie ? À travers cette enquête, Douce Menace nous questionne sur l’art, la contrefaçon, et nous interpelle sur la manière dont l’art peut être le miroir de l’âme.
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258 reviews8 followers
November 21, 2025
This should've been so up my alley. Caravaggio, Rome, art history, potentially forged paintings, mystery. Plus that knockout cover that's probably responsible for 80% of the copies sold. Alas, I struggled to finish this. It's not the worst book I've read but it's one of the more boring ones. It doesn't want to be a pulpy art history mystery thriller, so it tries to go the more literary route. However, by trying to be respectable it forgets to be interesting. The plot takes forever to get going, the language is unnecessarily laborious, the interchange between present and past perspectives doesn't add that much and the whole double theme is not all that interestingly developed. It does pick up slightly towards the end somewhat, but by then, it was too little and too late for me.
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