Readers enjoyed the descriptions of Venice, producing wistfulness amongst those who had been there and new travel plans amongst those who had not. Aspects of the book that were liked were the unstarching of Miss Garnet, the characterisation of the priest, the references to Zorastrianism buried in and largely obscured by later religions and the revealing of the unseen linked to the imagery of miracles and angels. However, on a less postive note, some found the two-tract story disruptive, a lack of engagement with Miss Garnet, the characters of the twins and Carlo unstisfactory with too much happening in the story-line and too many loose ends.
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