SuitabookEvie in Venice
Bruna De Luca
- Reading
- If your reader enjoys romance and artistic or travel settings, offer it as a choice and check in around the deception and online relationship. Discuss the ending afterwards, since the available story information does not reveal its resolution.
- Themes
- Honesty and family trust: Evie’s parents believe she is travelling on a science trip, although she is going to an art exchange. The premise creates a conflict between Evie’s independence and honesty towards her parents, but does not show whether the lie is challenged or endorsed.
- Online and offline relationships: Evie shares her art with an anonymous online crush while developing changing feelings during an art project with Leonardo. The parallel relationships invite questions about how people understand one another online and in person, without establishing which connection is healthier or preferred.
- Creative identity and judgement: Evie is a self-taught artist and is assigned a project with Leonardo, another art student who initially looks down on her. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The central areas to notice are Evie’s lie to her parents, an older teenager travelling for an exchange, Leonardo’s dismissive attitude, and the uncertainty created by an anonymous online crush. The level of detail and consequences remain unclear.