As I am working hard towards my New Year´s Resolution of improving some of my old languages - Italian and Spanish, as well as Portuguese - I am getting tons of reading opportunities featuring Italy, and although my summer plans are far from being set, practising some Italian dialects sounds too good to not keep dreaming.
My latest book review, Invitation to Italy by Victoria Springfield, just fuels further my Italian aspirations. It is set on the island of Procida, in the bay of Naples - a lot of details of Italian geography here - and although it has highly detailed atmospheric layers, this book is not at all a travel account about Italy. Far from it, but some places may be more encouraging for adventures than the other (for example, how many beautiful romance books are set during the winter months in Germany, asking for a friend...)
Worried to stay too far away of her daughter, who is about to spend a long vacation in Italy with her ex- and his gorgeous crush, Abi is accepting the invitation of spending some time at a hotel run by Loretta, a complex character, conflicted between her current duties and her unshared past stories. Abi is going through her difficult moments as well, trying to find her place in the recent story of being a single mother and anxieties. And there are also two gentlemen who are distributed in the story, whose role is to challenge the ladies´ narratives about themselves.
I personally loved the many details of the story, and how it follow the duality between Abi and Loretta, their destinies and their life challenges. It made me curious as a reader to understand their decisions and their personalities as we were approaching towards the end of the story.
This was my first encounter with Springfield´s works, but as I´ve seen that she has another novel also set in Italy, I may definitely interested in continuing my, (as for now) virtual journey through Italy.
Rating: 3.5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
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