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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
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hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved this book, my first by this author, but certainly not the last. The characters, plot and story were brilliant and the writing style is beautiful. Its a very gentle chick lit but totally enthralling.
Pieta Martinelli is a bridal designer working for a famous Bridal Designer. She is very busy at work and at home, planning her younger sister’s wedding dress. Living with her Italian dad, Beppi Martinelli, English mother Catherine and younger sister Addolorata, who is a chef in her dad’s restaurant Little Italy, in London.
Her family has a long running feud with another Italian family in the same locality. She and her sister have always been consumed with curiosity about the feud, because they have never been told anything about it. As events unfold, her mother ends up relating the story of how she and her father met and about the feud. As she hears the story, she also starts to understand her mother, who was always in the background, who both sisters more or less ignored.
It was an enchanting read. Beautifully incorporating interesting recipes as well as interesting comments to the recipe while moving the story forward really well.
This is the first book of hers that I have read and I am certainly going to pick up more of hers. I just loved the way she writes.
Her family has a long running feud with another Italian family in the same locality. She and her sister have always been consumed with curiosity about the feud, because they have never been told anything about it. As events unfold, her mother ends up relating the story of how she and her father met and about the feud. As she hears the story, she also starts to understand her mother, who was always in the background, who both sisters more or less ignored.
It was an enchanting read. Beautifully incorporating interesting recipes as well as interesting comments to the recipe while moving the story forward really well.
This is the first book of hers that I have read and I am certainly going to pick up more of hers. I just loved the way she writes.
Pieta and her sister Addolorata have grown up in London, daughters to an English mother and an Italian father. For their entire life, they have been forbidden to associate with the DeMatteo family without knowing why. Pieta is a bridal designer and as they work together on her sister's wedding dress, her mother finally tells her the story of her family, a story that travels from a remote Italian village to Rome and then to London. Armed with this knowledge, Pieta will bring about some dramatic changes in all of their lives.
There are so many problems with this book that I hardly know where to begin, but what I must stress is that despite all of these problems it is still immensely charming and likeable. I relished the way it transported me to Italy and the way that food is discussed so often and so lovingly. Pieta's father Beppi is a chef and the book is punctuated with his recipes for various Italian dishes. Normally I would say that the literary world has done recipes in novels to death, but here it does feel appropriate and it was also endearing to read in the acknowledgements at the book's end that large parts of the story were based on Nicky's own parents and that the recipes do indeed come from her father. They look genuinely delicious and I intend to give some of them a try.
So what doesn't work? For starters, it's incredibly predictable. You can tell from a long way off how it's going to come together and it doesn't offer any twists or surprises to sustain interest. None of the characters feel like real, fleshed out people. The most interesting and developed are Pieta's parents, but the other characters are just one-dimensional walk-ons (particularly Pieta's love interest). We are always being told what Pieta or her mother are thinking rather than Pellegrino allowing us to work that out for ourselves. I was also irritated by the way that Pieta's mother Catherine is supposedly telling her daughter a large part of the story, yet it never reads as if it were being spoken aloud.
Nevertheless I did really enjoy this book. The central story is endearing and if you approach it wanting nothing more than an undemanding read, you'll probably enjoy too.
There are so many problems with this book that I hardly know where to begin, but what I must stress is that despite all of these problems it is still immensely charming and likeable. I relished the way it transported me to Italy and the way that food is discussed so often and so lovingly. Pieta's father Beppi is a chef and the book is punctuated with his recipes for various Italian dishes. Normally I would say that the literary world has done recipes in novels to death, but here it does feel appropriate and it was also endearing to read in the acknowledgements at the book's end that large parts of the story were based on Nicky's own parents and that the recipes do indeed come from her father. They look genuinely delicious and I intend to give some of them a try.
So what doesn't work? For starters, it's incredibly predictable. You can tell from a long way off how it's going to come together and it doesn't offer any twists or surprises to sustain interest. None of the characters feel like real, fleshed out people. The most interesting and developed are Pieta's parents, but the other characters are just one-dimensional walk-ons (particularly Pieta's love interest). We are always being told what Pieta or her mother are thinking rather than Pellegrino allowing us to work that out for ourselves. I was also irritated by the way that Pieta's mother Catherine is supposedly telling her daughter a large part of the story, yet it never reads as if it were being spoken aloud.
Nevertheless I did really enjoy this book. The central story is endearing and if you approach it wanting nothing more than an undemanding read, you'll probably enjoy too.
Perfect for is genre. Easy read. Great to take travelling as it was easy to follow the story.
This was lovely, easy reading on one of my holidays. The stories from the past completely sucked me in.
I just discovered Nicky Pellegrino and I am hooked! I love Adriana Trigiani's writing and Nicky is almost on par. I love the descriptions of Italian foods and the Italian family dynamics. The flashback love story was great too.
I'd seen Nicky Pellegrino's books before but hadn't read any. Picked this one up in the library and I will certainly be looking for some more of hers. Excellent.