Review: Fun and Engaging!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2012
What I loved about this book was that it managed that delicate balance of being humorous without being campy so artfully that I smiled almost from beginning to end. Having your characters do and say humorous things without trivializing them is incredibly difficult to do (I would never even attempt it) but Lynn did so in a manner that seemed effortless.Her writing is fluid and natural, with bursts of descriptive genius that remind you throughout that should she choose, she would be equally talented at writing deep, dense, literary fiction. I also loved that in a relatively short read, she managed to craft interactions between her characters that convinced me utterly that they were developing a genuine and heartfelt connection to one another and in a short period of time. I did not have to suspend my disbelief that they had fallen in love, I believed it.And then, amidst the humor and playfulness, there was this incredibly vivid portrayal of a growing physical attraction, and the reckless things it can make us do. The sex scenes were pitch-perfect. All too often, I read scenes of intimacy where the characters become someone else entirely (which sometimes does in fact happen during sex for sure) but in a way that is unconvincing - that didn't happen here at all.Lynn's preferred genre includes more intrigue and adventure than I generally feel drawn to as a reader, but reading 'Love Capri Style' made me curious enough to give it a whirl.