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Encore Valentine
by Adriana Trigiani
https://clavie.co/2019/12/16/book-review-encore-valentine/
This is the second instalment in the Valentine series. Valentine Roncalli is a 35-year old single woman living in New York City. She recently inherited her family’s custom shoe business with the caveat that her brother will take over the business management side of things. Her best friends are Gabe, a gay man who has a flair for decorating, and Bret, her ex-fiancee. She has a love interest in Italy who writes amazing letters to her, but she isn’t sure how committed she can get to someone who lives so far away. The business is struggling to expand and Valentine takes a trip to Argentina where she meets a long lost cousin and learns more about her family.
Valentine is just not likeable enough character. I find Valentine to be immature and tiresome. I could not for the life of me figure out why an older, and presumably wiser man like Gianluca would want anything to do with her.
Trigiani had a tendency to throw in little life lessons along the way that really annoyed me. I literally rolled my eyes during some of the more trite parts. Trigiani also tries to wax lyrical in a forced and unnatural way. She had an obsession with using unique color words to evoke a mood–chocolate, eggshell, ruby, saffron, pumpkin, emerald, etc. But it didn’t flow well and it just got overbearing for me.
This is the second instalment in the Valentine series. Valentine Roncalli is a 35-year old single woman living in New York City. She recently inherited her family’s custom shoe business with the caveat that her brother will take over the business management side of things. Her best friends are Gabe, a gay man who has a flair for decorating, and Bret, her ex-fiancee. She has a love interest in Italy who writes amazing letters to her, but she isn’t sure how committed she can get to someone who lives so far away. The business is struggling to expand and Valentine takes a trip to Argentina where she meets a long lost cousin and learns more about her family.
Valentine is just not likeable enough character. I find Valentine to be immature and tiresome. I could not for the life of me figure out why an older, and presumably wiser man like Gianluca would want anything to do with her.
Trigiani had a tendency to throw in little life lessons along the way that really annoyed me. I literally rolled my eyes during some of the more trite parts. Trigiani also tries to wax lyrical in a forced and unnatural way. She had an obsession with using unique color words to evoke a mood–chocolate, eggshell, ruby, saffron, pumpkin, emerald, etc. But it didn’t flow well and it just got overbearing for me.