I finished this book at least a month ago. Already, I've forgotten most of it, and sadly, that is probably the most revealing review I can provide. The book jacket crows that Unveiling is a novel readers of Byatt's Possession will love, which is simply not true. Readers of Possession will wonder where the hell character, plot, and narrative are.

Unveiling is this: A Year in Tuscany meets Danielle Steel or Tracy Chevalier, set in Rome. The story is painfully predictable and the characters little more than Hollywood stock types. If one more heroine flees her trendy New York relationship for [insert European city here], I will scream. ( )