Review: Nice love story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2012
Of all the Carillo books I've read, this one has the least "Italian" in it. It's also the most slow-paced, it was bordering on boring. What kept me awake was my irritation with Louie, the main character. He comes off as an over-thinker, with so much anger and resentment within him. I haven't experienced it myself, but is it really possible that losing a two-day old baby sister to death when one is only five years old, burying her on Christmas Eve will make that child start to hate Christmas, and carry that hate until he's forty? Possibly, it could happen.... I just wasn't so convinced with the way it was presented in this book.But of course, Louie was redeemed...redeemed by love. And that's why this is a love story. Such a love story, indeed! I like that it started out casually and cautiously, then developed into a more serious and deeper love. For this, the book was saved, in my opinion.(less)