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Anyone looking to escape into Paris’s past can’t go wrong with The Sixth.
Florbela is a strong-willed and decisive heroine and the inclusion of real and important figures from the art world add delight to a beautifully written story. Told in a memoirist style by the protagonist, Florbela’s life in La Ruche – the real abode of Modigliani, Rivera and Chegall (to name a few) – provides insight into the modern art movement. These secondary characters are well-fleshed and Hays blends them effortlessly into Florbela’s story; there are some wonderfully realised scenes as Florbela is drawn into the licentious world of these brilliant free spirits. The mystery surrounding Florbela’s roommate offers plenty of intrigue until the danger ramps up with the murder of a close friend and confident of her father’s. Some of the pace is lost as the story stays true to a realistic timeline, and there are moments where the greater mystery becomes obscured by Florbela’s concerns with her art, her suitors and her enigmatic roommate. This is natural enough from the point of view of the narrator – a twenty-one year-old who has lived a largely sheltered life.


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The Sixth Avery Hays 9780985418236 Books Reviews

This book was wonderful. I found it fascinating. I would definitely describe it as a page turner, keeping me fully engaged, wanting more, right to the last page.

I loved the beautifully presented accounts of Paris life at the turn of the twentieth century. I was enthralled by the wonderfully descriptive passages that revealed the creative and artistic lives of characters that were to eventually become household names, and of the region known as the sixth and its surrounding environs. My personal knowledge of the art world is severely limited piqued my interest in gaining a greater familiarity with these people and their world.

The main character Florbela Sarmentos, whose father was a revolutionary imprisoned in Portugal, was also a fledgling artist, struggling to find her place in the art world. It was a story of intrigue, romance and mystery.

The main premise behind the story was that of the revolution in Portugal, although this often seemed to take a back seat to her romantic liaisons with three different suitors. The discovery of a secret coded message that could aid the revolution and gain freedom for her father resulted in the involvement of the freemasons in aiding in the translation of the code and ultimately in uniting two of her previously antagonistic suitors.

The action ranged from Paris to Portugal, with Florbela and Armand, the third suitor and her self-appointed protector, pursued doggedly by the legendary assassin Onca do Papa. Finally finding safety amongst the revolutionaries the story comes to a satisfactory conclusion, tying together the loose ends very neatly.

I really enjoyed this book and would certainly recommend it to others, especially if you want a story with romance, intrigue and mystery. The use of historical characters from the art world, not limited just to the artists, but also their benefactors, meant that I was able to learn a lot from this book, in addition to the sheer pleasure obtained from the story. Definitely a book I would recommend to others.

This review is based on a digital review copy.
Set in Paris in 1910, Florbela is the daughter of a Portuguese rebel, and decides to have a life in exile as an artist in Paris with her sculptor roommate, Irene. There she meets Diego Rivera, his first wife Angelina, and Amedeo Modigliani. She is also next door neighbors with Marc Chagall, whom she calls by his real name Moishe. However, her blissful life is turned upside down when she stumbles upon a dying man, who is a rebel for a Portuguese rebel cause, and gives her a painting that has a crypted message. She makes an alliance with the Freemasons, and a secret organization of rebels. She finds out that the King of Portugal has sent an assassin to kill her and to get her painting. Florbela reluctantly realizes that she must make a choice to either to live her life in Paris as an artist or to aid the rebellious cause to overthrow the king and save her father.

Most of the story is about the daily life of the painters. Florbela spends most of the novel painting and going to parties. It shows how the painters get discovered by going to parties of great benefactors, who if they like a work, they will buy it and promote it. The book focuses a great deal on Moishe’s rise to fame from a penniless painter. He is portrayed to be a talented painter whom all these famous artists admire and benefactors are thoroughly invested in his work. Florbela, on the other hand, struggles for no one is interested in her work.

Florbela is stubborn, often prone to jealousy, and also very nosy. She likes to get involved with the other characters’ situations that doesn’t concern her. She is also very self-centered. She also doesn’t give a thought to the dangers surrounding her or even to her father, who is languishing in a Portuguese prison while she paints and goes out to parties to have a good time.

Overall, this story is slow-paced. The plot of the story takes place at the end of the novel. There is very little action until the last few chapters of the book. Until then, the author goes on a pace reminiscent of the way an artist brings a painting to life. The background and sketches often take a long time to form, but in the end, a clear and nice painting is created. For there is mystery, romance, adventure, and a thriller included in these last few pages. I recommend this book to fans of mysteries, thrillers, art history, and to fans of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code.
(Note I read an ARC copy of this book in courtesy of NetGalley.)
Enjoyed all of it, waiting for another book.
Anyone looking to escape into Paris’s past can’t go wrong with The Sixth.
Florbela is a strong-willed and decisive heroine and the inclusion of real and important figures from the art world add delight to a beautifully written story. Told in a memoirist style by the protagonist, Florbela’s life in La Ruche – the real abode of Modigliani, Rivera and Chegall (to name a few) – provides insight into the modern art movement. These secondary characters are well-fleshed and Hays blends them effortlessly into Florbela’s story; there are some wonderfully realised scenes as Florbela is drawn into the licentious world of these brilliant free spirits. The mystery surrounding Florbela’s roommate offers plenty of intrigue until the danger ramps up with the murder of a close friend and confident of her father’s. Some of the pace is lost as the story stays true to a realistic timeline, and there are moments where the greater mystery becomes obscured by Florbela’s concerns with her art, her suitors and her enigmatic roommate. This is natural enough from the point of view of the narrator – a twenty-one year-old who has lived a largely sheltered life.