Review: Solid, well-edited, romantic-suspense-set-in-italy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
Murder, Mi Amore, a romantic suspense novel, begins with the protagonist, Lexie, an Italian-American woman, who is shopping in Rome, Italy.  We learn that Lexie:"...wasn't ordinary any more.  Not since she'd come to Rome.  And now she had a new handbag to go with her new attitude.  In the past two weeks, the cautious and always-do-what's-right-eager-to-please-everyone Lexie Cortese had become a confident, take-charge woman.  For all of her twenty-eight years she'd done what others wanted--her parents, her teachers, that louse Jerry.  But no more."In the first few pages, the new Lexie meets a "Mr. GQ Cover Model" with oodles of charm and an Italian accent that works like foreplay.  This modern romantic-suspense novel, which I received as a review-copy, features the obligatory two hot twenty-somethings.  It sets off on a quick start and then religiously follows the requirements of the genre.You'll find lots of "heat" and "electricity" traveling around Lexie's body when she is near her Mr. GQ, lots of sizzling attraction, lots of imaginings of her sex-filled secure life with him, lots of trembling.  And there is one detailed sex-scene, with protected sex which is wonderfully responsible.  Mr. GQ's "potent masculinity" is often on display, not just in the bedroom.The book is written in simple English in a third-person limited narration that switches between the two main characters' perspectives, for the most part.  The book is well-edited.  There is what looks like an odd error in the Italian in the book, Madone for Madonna, but the author says it is an attempt to write a dialect version of the word.  The title, Murder, Mi Amore, is a mash-up of English, Spanish and Italian, but artistic license can excuse many things ;-) .  The book is a solid entry in the genre romantic-suspense-novel-set-in-Italy, with a strong sense of Italy throughout for a vicarious pleasure, and sizzling romance for the fun of it!Please visit my Italophile Book Reviews site for the full, illustrated review:[...]