Review: MIX FEELINGS ON THIS ONE
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2013
I think the fact that I expected this to be a funnier rendition might have colored my thinking on this one.  I am still trying to figure out exactly what the Minor Disasters were.I found it confusing and eccentric.  But I thought the problems were probably of Stella's own doing.  She seemed a bit wishy-washy for my taste.  The love interest Drew was a complete ass and she just put up with it hoping of a diamond ring.  Give me a break in this day and age he'd have been kicked to the curb. Especially after a three year courtship that ends with he's not sure he wants to marry her.  Then less than a month later he's engaged to someone else.  Cheating SOB and you know it.The alternate, Roberto, who was Momma and Momma's Friends favorite to marry Stella was okay. I found the romance angle between the two to be more contrived than anything. It seemed they were more friends than lover material.It was an easy read and just as easily I found I could forget the story and the characters.  Yet I read the whole thing and on some level I really did like it.  The family, the Italian Family, though stereotyped by the author, seemed to really love one another and really did stick together. No matter what was thrown at them they just picked up the pieces and continued on. I have to say I gave them points for that.Over all I guess I say if it's within your reading budget buy, read and enjoy.