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novel started out strong but ultimately left me a bit cold, Martin Finch, a young grad student at Harvard, assists his mentor and others in testing psychics and mediums for "Scientific American, " The first few are easily debunked, but then they meet Mina Crawley, whose alleged ability to manifest the spirit of her dead brother is less easily shown to be fraud.
Martin is attracted to Mina in spite of himself, even as he discovers an increasingly complex web of deceit surrounding Mina and her powers.


The book was interesting, but I never really came to care for the characters very much, It was fun that it was set ins Philadelphia, though, so I recognized a lot of the locations and street names and all.
Period novel of scientists investigating mediums in the twenties, Pretty good. I loved this book! It's funny but not fluffy, smart but not academic, and full of interesting characters and details, A slightly geeky but very endearing grad student gets involved with a project to disprove the talents of various psychics in thes.
The story centers around his part in the investigation of a young and pretty medium who he thinks might be in danger, but from what, he doesn't know.
He attempts to become the romantic hero of her complicated life, even though he knows she may be a fraud and doesn't need rescuing.
His brain leads him one way, his heart and libido another, The story is a great blend between RomCom and armchair detective story, and much to my surprise! one of the very few books where the dust jacket blurbs didn't exaggerate.
.One thing I recently learned recently meaning in the lastseconds is that inJohnny Depp bought the rights to make this book into a movie.
And since I am and will always be a staunch supporter of anything Johnny Depp, that makes me look slightly more favorably at this book.
Slightly.

The weird thing about this book is that the medium who it revolves around is based off of a real woman, a woman who is so completely different from her fictional counterpart in Inamorata as to be unrecognizable.
So I find that strange, It's as if the author decide to use the name and occupation and nothing else at all,

Anyway. This book. It's okay, I guess. Kind of interesting. It starts off well, but I must say that it gets very slow and muggy by the end, I don't really have much to say about it, It's based during thes, the height of spiritualism, and the journal Scientific American has declared they will issue a,prize to anyone who can prove they are legit.


A group of men who historically were actually joined by Harry Houdini, which I think could have been super interesting, alas that's not what happens in this book goes out and about to find and disprove mediums and the like.


Until Mina. She's just so gosh darn beautiful and believable and maybe she's the real deal!

So that's that, Like I said, it's okay, If you're interested in this period historically or you like reading about the spiritualism movement, this could be a good addition to your library.
If not, well. You're not going to miss out on anything life changing,
How much did I love this book I bought it because it looked pretty black cover with green bird, and the description sounded interesting, but from the first moment on I was hooked.
The story is simple:"It is thes, and Spiritualism is all the rage, Twentythreeyear old Harvard graduate Martin Finch is sent by the Scientific American on the investigative opportunity of a lifetime: an examination of the powers of Philadelphia "society psychic" Mina Crawley.
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What a great story! And great writing! This is why I spend hours in book stores, to discover little gems like "Inamorata".
Threedimensional characters to love or hate, suspense, mystery, a narrator who visibly struggles to stay objective when he slowly falls in love.
. . I loved it. Very much recommended. What a mess! Started very interesting but the second half of the book was complicated and messy, Didn't get the reason why somebody especially characters in the book would do such things, Pretty entertaining read, did get a bit confusing in some parts, . . wasn't sure about the ending, I liked this one enough to save it for years and read it twice, I would have rated it higher except for the fact that the ending fell a bit flat, A writer with talent who didnt write much else, My gosh, I loved reading this, To be honest, I didn't know what to expect from it, as it had been sitting on my shelf for years without being given a second glance.
I'm sorry I overlooked you for so long, Inamorata! Just because you were the randomlyselected third book in afordeal, doesn't mean you aren't worthy of attention! In fact, I don't even remember what the other two books were.


Thes have always seemed like an extremely cool decade to me, at least through the lens of American fiction.
Inamorata carries that cool vibe throughout as it takes us from Boston to New York City to Philadelphia, It follows the misadventures of Martin Finch, a logical young man whose job is to debunk the claims of wannabe psychics, who are in no short supply with spiritualism at its height of popularity.
What may seem like amazing supernatural feats to most are simply parlour tricks waiting to be exposed by his deductive reasoning, Finch most assuredly doesn't believe in psychics at least, not until he starts to fall in love with a very convincing one.


I love the quickpaced wit of this book, It's filled with entertaining characters, constant allusions to the sights and aesthetics of the time, and plenty of prohibitionera shenanigans, Also, the main character gets punched in the face I don't know why that's a thing I'm into, but it is, I really regret not giving this book a try sooner! It was pretty great,because while I LOVED this book there were parts of it that I thought could have been better, There are so many plot elements that the story was at risk of becoming convoluted at some points but I think overall it added to the mystery in the ending.
So so good, and normally I dont even like historical fiction, Ok, don't judge a book by it's price I found this on a sale table at Books Inc, and thought, 'Ok, for five bucks I'll bite' the subject matter was just a little unbelievable for me, I didn't think I'd be able to suspend disbelief enough that I would have bought the book for full price.
Then I got home and started to read and flew through it! I needed to read something well written but not too selfserious this fit the bill.
The characters are interesting and the topic Spiritualism in the's also engaging, I'm not usually a fan of historical fiction I have a hard time believing the story setup, it often feels forced as authors inject the setting into the novel but this worked for me, with a few small labored exceptions.


This was a great fun read, especially in time for Halloween hey, if I'm going to read about ghosts, why not in October.


If I had known how much I was going to enjoy this, I'd have bought it at full price I'll be on the lookout for Gangemi's next book and throw my hardearned dollars his way.


INAMORATA G
Joseph Gangemist book Historical
In, Scientific American offers five thousand dollars for evidence of "conclusive psychic manifestations.
" Inspired by this reallife event, Inamorata follows Martin Finch, a twentythreeyearold Harvard graduate student and member of Scientific Americans investigative committee, on the case of a lifetimean attempt to determine whether Mina Crawley, a beautiful Philadelphia socialite, is able to contact the spirit realm.
In the tiny upstairs room of the Crawleys elegant Rittenhouse Square townhouse, Finch is prepared to debunk a fraud, But instead the man of science breaks the cardinal rule of psychic investigation: Never fall in love with the medium, . . “Inamorata” truly places you inand is filled with rich description and interesting characters, I was fascinated by the different spiritualists, the ways Martin devised to expose them, and felt his quandary over Mina my mothers name.
This was one of those books once started, I couldnt put down, This is a wonderful, wellwritten bookand a mystery, of sorts, without a murder,
Starts strong and fizzles out spectacularly by the end, I started the book assuming it to be a historical novel inspired by the spiritualist craze of thes, and the exposure of fraud "mediums" by such figures as Harry Houdinionly to realize halfway through that the whole book revolves around the famous, and very real, "Margery" case.
However, the book sets up a simplified alternateuniverse telling of the story that excludes Houdini himself and features firstperson narration by "Finch," a graduate student who is clearly meant to be the Scientific American researcher J.
Malcolm Birdat least, sort of, Lots of characters and details are changed, and by the middle of the book, you come to realize you are reading a historical romance more than you are a historical mystery.
The ending is so obtuse, though, that you're left thinking the author must be making some profound point about the real, historical events: only, when you go look them up, you realize that the fictionalization is so extreme it might just as well be a totally madeup story.
A confusing and unsatisfying experience, Interesting take on psychic Margery Crandon's story, although the story deviates quite dramatically from actual events, Colorful writing but the story line crumbles midpoint with some fairly farfetched twists that strain credulity, This book is set in the's, during the peak of the Spiritualism movement, It is upon this backdrop that Harvard graduate, Martin Finch, gets the unexpected opportunity to assist in the Scientific American investigation into the psychic powers of selfproclaimed mediums and Spiritulists.
At first he rises to the challenge and exposes several fraudulent "psychics" using logic and scientific reasoning, However, the investigation into the paranormal powers of "society psychic" Mina Crawley presents a far greater challenge, especially when he develops feelings for her that threaten to cloud his judgement.

I could not put this book down! Finch's determination to disprove psychic ability took the story in some interesting directions, and I admit that I'm not exactly sure what really happened in the end, but I like that there is still some mystery surrounding the story and its characters.
Great book! It wasn't exactly 'love' this thing I felt for this book, because as Gangemi said, and I quote, "love was more symphonic feeling.
. . not this anxious chamber piece playing in my inner ear at all hours of the day and night",

Ha ha, that wasn't very good introduction, but anyway, let's carry on,

I consider this book a science fiction, It is based on psychology and solving mysteries behind unexplained happenings, like what we normal people refer to as 'Magic', Now I'll skip the first few pages of the book and go directly to the biggest mystery that the Scientific American committee has to solve.
It's the case of Mina Crawley who claims to have her brother Walter dead speak to her, Mina had a husband and he's a surgeon, The story got intensified by the twists and dark history of the characters, There were so many puzzles to solve and Mina was even suspected to be psychotic or something, and even an evil ventriloquist.


But then in the end, none of the assumptions fitted, It turned out that Mina was really believing in the after life existence of Walter, and then her husband, who wanted fame after tasting it for the first time, then used the next events to have his share on the story.


Now the climax began when Finch broke the ultimate law: Never fall in love with the medium, Mina, being the medium. On this part, I really hated both Finch and Mina, and Crawley the husband, Alright, I hate Finch for falling for a girl even though he can't trust her at all, I hate Mina for, well, committing adultery, And Crawley for not doing anything though it's really obvious that an angle was formed the day Finch showed up,

So when McLaughlin head of the Scientific American Committee noticed his best student broke the law, he took action, brought along this Tom guy who was revealed in the end as a colleague of Walter back in the wars.
He said this wasn't the Walter he knew, That said, more proofs supported his statement and Mina and Crawley was not awarded for the Scientific American,

As for the triangle, Crawley wasn't able to speak anymore, Mina stayed with him though, Finch went back to Harvard, Years later, there it was in the magazine, Mina and her son, . . it was a picture that gave Finch something more to feel,

Ok, why I like the story Because Mina and Finch didn't end up together, LOL, kidding. I liked it because it had so many twists, so many dark pasts revealed, and so many terms that were foreign to me.


I recommend this book to anyone bored, ha ha, anyone who adores Science but don't think I do, and anyone who wants to encounter a Filipino Butler in a Philadelphian story.
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