Stravaganza: City of Flowers by Mary Hoffman

This is third in the series and Hoffman had every character from every book involved in this one. It was a little confusing, but a fast read. Intended for middle grade readers, I've enjoyed the series. The kids travel, or stravagate, from modern England to Renaissance Italy city-states. It's fascinating. The author researched the crap out of the area, explaining in the afterward that she stayed a block down the road from one of the cathedrals in this book. You can tell. I feel like I know a lot more about the time period. This is one of those strange books where the setting is the winning point for me. The characters were okay, the rapier fighting was cool, but the setting and revenge play the major roles in this ya novel.