"Everything had a halo"

"I am enjoying this story. It got my attention and held it throughout the first chapters I've read so far. It's well structured and worded. Your sparing use of adjectives and adverbs is just right, and you convey a good picture of your main character by taking the reader right into the inner workings of Giacomo. One tiny bit of constructive criticism: maybe you could vary the beginnings of your sentences and paragraphs a bit. I use the search function on my MS Word to show me words I know I tend to repeat, and I have Natural Reader read the chapter I've edited out to me when I'm done to get what I've missed beyond that."