Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
A book featuring an historical figure Artemisia Gentileschi story told in verse. The story is very interesting, and it gave me the opportunity to google and admire some of her paintings. I love historical fiction novels, and this is not the first novel that pushed me to learn more about painters almost unknown to me. The story is in verse but it is quite readable; Artemisia didn’t have an easy life, she lost her mom when she was twelve, she was raped at seventeen and she had an hard time to be believed, she didn’t really had justice, her rapist was found guilt but he wasn’t sentenced to prison. In the book Artemisia overcame all her troubles with the help of her paintings. Two paintings are at the center of the novel: Susanna and the Elders and Judith slaying Holofernes, like Susanna and Judith Artemisia lived in a men world she had to go through a lot of struggles to be heard. Goodreads: Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough