![]() A lot of it also seemed like the author, Napoli, was going, "Hey, look at me! Look at all the research I did on Florence in the 15th century! Food! Architecture! Painters! Look look!" But finally (because of really sad stuff, unfortunately), interesting things started to happen in the story. ![]() Twelve-year-olds don't talk or think like that, 15th century noble or not. Elisabetta, the main character, is not quite 13 at the start of the book, and I couldn't really "buy" her voice. more escription, but this just didn't sit well with me. The writing was overly flowery sometimes. Then the first big tragedy happened, and I couldn't stop. Review 2: About 50 pages into this, I wasn't sure I wanted to keep reading it. I think that it was easy to like the characters and feel attached but it felt that the ending was like chopping half the book off, it needed a little bit more of something. I think that the author did do a good job at imagining what Mona Lisa's life could have been like. The only problem was that I found the ending was very bland and did not make you happy with what you had read even if the book was good. ![]() I thought that the story was well thought out and that it was easy to get into. Review 1: The smile is a story about Mona Lisa as a child. ![]()
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