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A review by reeyabeegale
One Hot Italian Summer by Karina Halle
4.0
This is my second Karina Halle book and my reading experiences are composed of both new and similar things from when I read The Nordic King .
I like Halle's plots, which tend to be not so mainstream when it comes to romance books. I enjoyed this book more than The Nordic King simply because this has a smoother and more realistic flow of things. Definitely, this is a bit of an insta-love, but not cring-ey . Plus I love all the characters here, the focus still remained on the four main characters in spite of the many side characters.
One thing I noticed that makes me wary of Karina Halle is that her books tend to make me lose interest after the H and h gets together the first time. Maybe because her books are angsty and I love when characters pine over each other; all the sexual tension, etc, so when that gets taken away because we're moving on a different direction now, it bores me. It took me almost a full week of reading this book which almost worried me, thinking it will put me in a reading slump. This is not to say that she isn't good, it's just something that happened to me automatically when I read both of her books [I mentioned].
Initially my rating would've been 3 stars, but the game changer here really was the last three chapters. Though it's not perfect, Halle tried to show significant character growth and it was done in a way that didn't feel forced. I love the idea of everything falling into place in the pacing that it did, because otherwise it would've been unrealistic.
I recommend this book if you're looking for a quick and light read for the summer (though we're almost at the end of that season). In the future, I will still read Karina Halle's books and I'm really hoping I don't experience the same problem then. I heard good things about Lovewrecked , so I am looking forward to picking that up this year as well.
I like Halle's plots, which tend to be not so mainstream when it comes to romance books. I enjoyed this book more than The Nordic King simply because this has a smoother and more realistic flow of things. Definitely, this is a bit of an insta-love, but not cring-ey . Plus I love all the characters here, the focus still remained on the four main characters in spite of the many side characters.
One thing I noticed that makes me wary of Karina Halle is that her books tend to make me lose interest after the H and h gets together the first time. Maybe because her books are angsty and I love when characters pine over each other; all the sexual tension, etc, so when that gets taken away because we're moving on a different direction now, it bores me. It took me almost a full week of reading this book which almost worried me, thinking it will put me in a reading slump. This is not to say that she isn't good, it's just something that happened to me automatically when I read both of her books [I mentioned].
Initially my rating would've been 3 stars, but the game changer here really was the last three chapters. Though it's not perfect, Halle tried to show significant character growth and it was done in a way that didn't feel forced. I love the idea of everything falling into place in the pacing that it did, because otherwise it would've been unrealistic.
I recommend this book if you're looking for a quick and light read for the summer (though we're almost at the end of that season). In the future, I will still read Karina Halle's books and I'm really hoping I don't experience the same problem then. I heard good things about Lovewrecked , so I am looking forward to picking that up this year as well.