Review: love at the doctor’s office
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2013
An Italian friend of author Suzanne D. Williams joked that she couldn’t write a book about Italians without having a dead body in the trunk of a car.  The author embraced the joke, and used it as the main motivation in “Something Italian”.  In this light, clean romance, the main character, Patricia Fanning, is the victim of date rape.  Patricia teaches street dancing at a local dance studio.  Ray, who also works there, convinces her to join a group of co-workers for a night of partying.  Then he slips a drug into her Coke, takes her home, and gets her pregnant.After months of denying that she is a girl in trouble, Patricia goes to see Dr. Marco Bottari.  She’s the last appointment of the day, and when Marco leaves the building, he finds her standing next to her car in shock.  Ray is in the trunk, dead, with gunshot wounds.The police take her car for evidence.  When Marco takes Patricia home, someone has ransacked her apartment.  He can’t leave her there, so he insists that she come and stay with him until this problem is solved.“Something Italian” continues the series of books Suzanne Williams writes featuring an Italian hero. The story introduces the Botarri family, which will be used in future novels.  It comes after “Flight Risk” and “Italian with a Side of Pasta”, but stands alone as new cast of characters.  This book is just as enjoyable as the rest.  Faith is used as a motivation for action, but is not discussed in a preachy fashion.  Patricia suffers from the insecurity that results from date rape, but the subject is not discussed in depth.The characters could have discussed her reasons for not having an abortion or considering putting the baby up for adoption.  Patricia doesn’t believe in God, and that leaves room for another reason.  But that doesn’t seem to be the purpose of the story.  It is just a light, enjoyable read with clean sex and clean language.