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  • The Color Storm

  • A Novel of Renaissance Venice
  • By: Damian Dibben
  • Narrated by: Ben Allen
  • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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The Color Storm

By: Damian Dibben
Narrated by: Ben Allen
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Enter the world of Renaissance Venice, where the competition for fame and fortune can mean life or death…

Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary color. Yet artist Giorgione “Zorzo” Barbarelli’s career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up. When Zorzo hears a rumor of a mysterious new pigment, brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe, he sets out to acquire the color and secure his name in history.

Winning a commission to paint a portrait of the man’s wife, Sybille, Zorzo thinks he has found a way into the merchant’s favor. Instead he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy that stretches across Europe and a marriage coming apart inside one of the floating city’s most illustrious palazzi.

As the water levels rise and the plague creeps ever closer, an increasingly desperate Zorzo isn’t sure whom he can trust. Will Sybille prove to be the key to Zorzo’s success or the reason for his downfall?

Atmospheric and suspenseful and filled with the famous artists of the era, The Color Storm is an intoxicating story of art and ambition, love and obsession.

©2022 Damian Dibben (P)2022 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Time travel for Art History Romantics

It drew me in with such wonderful descriptive eloquence!! Scenes were painted for my mind to imagine with great details and emotion.
A true escape for anyone who creates or just appreciates art of the ages!

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this story, tho

holy moly, I was not expecting this to be an edge of my seat suspense situation, but it was and I loved it and and it was beautiful and tender and just read it okay

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Started well, ended less so

The narration is perfect and the characters are interesting. The writing is polished and full of wonderful imagery. But about two thirds of the way through, the story takes a wrong turn and ends in a very depressing way. This could have been so much better. The finish is predictable in a way, but the plot just does not hang together well.

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