A review by dely_dd
Questo bacio vada al mondo intero by Colum McCann

2.0

This book didn't work for me and it wasn't able to talk to me. I was not emotionally involved and all the characters felt "cold"; above all I didn't feel them as real and realistic. They were one-dimensional and created by the author only to communicate his message: though life can be tough and difficult, there will always be unexpected love that helps to go on. No, I'm sorry, but life doesn't work this way.
Also, some events are too unreal, for example

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that kind of friar that falls in love and makes love with a woman, his brother that felt in love with an accomplice of the accident where the friar dies, Gloria that is able to adopt the two little children of Jazzlyn though being a divorced middle age woman, etc.

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What I also didn't like was the author starting a new chapter without introducing the new characters, and then the reader had to find out about whom he was talking and how these characters were connected to each other. The stories are all intertwined and the characters' lives meet, though sometimes only for a short moment, and I had the feeling that the author wanted to add a kind of suspense so that the reader could feel happy once recognized the characters. I don't like this, I want to know about whom I'm reading. I don't feel happy or smart recognizing characters who aren't introduced as they should. This makes me only angry.
I also didn't like the writing style. 2 stars only because I managed to finish the book.