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A review by lyndajdickson
What You Don't Know Now by Marci Diehl
4.0
It's the summer of 1967, and Bridey McKenna is on the trip of a lifetime in Europe with her mother, aunt, and fourteen-year-old cousin. Bridey even gets to spend her eighteenth birthday in Venice. However, things aren't as idyllic as they should be - until a hairy bus ride through the Italian mountains lands them in Assisi. There, Bridey meets Alessandro, the charming singing waiter, and is swept off her feet. A detour to Greece brings a whole other adventure, and Bridey is forced to make the hardest decision of her life.
Based on the author's own travels through Europe, What You Don’t Know Now brings us a realistic look at life in the 1960s, and a glimpse of what long-distance romance looked like in a time before email, cell phones, and social media. The author paints a vivid picture with her words, making us feel like we are really there. She also uses dialect very skilfully to give Alessandro a true Italian "voice".
There were numerous editing and formatting errors in the version I read, as well as the use of a few too many similes and metaphors, especially at the beginning of the book. Nevertheless, the story flows well, and we are swept away with Bridey on her adventures. Bridey and the support characters are all well-developed, with the dynamics between them being both interesting and believable. The ending leaves open the possibility of a sequel. I, for one, would very much like to follow Bridey on the rest of her journey through life.
Warnings: coarse language, sex scenes.
I received this book in return for an honest review.
Full blog post (28 January): https://booksdirectonline.blogspot.com/2017/01/what-you-dont-know-now-by-marci-diehl.html
Based on the author's own travels through Europe, What You Don’t Know Now brings us a realistic look at life in the 1960s, and a glimpse of what long-distance romance looked like in a time before email, cell phones, and social media. The author paints a vivid picture with her words, making us feel like we are really there. She also uses dialect very skilfully to give Alessandro a true Italian "voice".
There were numerous editing and formatting errors in the version I read, as well as the use of a few too many similes and metaphors, especially at the beginning of the book. Nevertheless, the story flows well, and we are swept away with Bridey on her adventures. Bridey and the support characters are all well-developed, with the dynamics between them being both interesting and believable. The ending leaves open the possibility of a sequel. I, for one, would very much like to follow Bridey on the rest of her journey through life.
Warnings: coarse language, sex scenes.
I received this book in return for an honest review.
Full blog post (28 January): https://booksdirectonline.blogspot.com/2017/01/what-you-dont-know-now-by-marci-diehl.html