Review: When The Moon Hits Your Eye Like A Big Pizza Pie....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2011
This book was cute and full of Italian clichés and stereotypes from the names that sounded like they were fresh from the latest mobster movie, the little Italian grandma with the stink eye, the Catholic guilt and naturally the mob hit references.Paige Lombardi and Jeff Benedetto did the mommy-daddy dance three years ago and then bam - he left her the next day and she never heard from him again. Bad Jeff!Now Jeff's sister and Paige's best friend Gina has up disappeared, but not before leaving her young son Justin in Paige's care. Yikes what was Gina thinking - Paige doesn't know the first thing about looking after a baby. While trying to track Gina down to give her back the little bundle of joy, Paige runs smack dab into Jeff - who's being held at gunpoint by a gumba. Through a series of convoluted events, Jeff, Paige and baby Justin barely escape and are forced to hide out until they can figure out where Gina is and what exactly is going on. Their enforced imprisonment has them asking the hard questions about what happened between them three years ago. Seems like they both have a lot of unresolved feelings for one another.If there's one thing that was clear early on was that these two paisanos were ill-equipped to handle an itty-bitty baby. And bambino Justin had an amazing sense of baby interuptus on more than one occasion.There were some very funny LOL moments including a grocery store excursion, a poopie diaper (seriously 20 minutes for two people to change it?) and a leather couch and bare skin *wink*. This book had a madcap feel to it a la Lucy and Ricky Ricardo.That's Amore had me smiling and laughing more than once and it was the perfect read to while away a few hours at the gym to help keep my mind off exercising and counting down the minutes