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A Cena Dai Suoi (2013)

by Dana Bate(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8854149136 (ISBN13: 9788854149137)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Newton Compton

review 1: This was our book club book for this month, and I really wanted to like it. I love food and I enjoy reading about food. I'm also a sucker for a good romance. I will admit that I struggle with some first person narratives, but mostly if I don't like the narrator. In this case I really dislike Hannah. She really frustrated me because I felt like she whined a lot about her life and not being treated like a grown up, but she never really acted like one or took responsibility for herself and her life. I also get sick with dread when I read about people who put themselves into situations like Hannah does, where she throws her job away with nothing else planned, who takes things so lightly. Personally I feel like she never will learn that her actions have real consequences if she... more has someone there to bail her out each time. I guess I should say Hannah at least seemed like a real person, a real person I dislike. It also irritates me because people seem to think all people her age are like that, but I know lots of much more responsible people that age. I also thought the food element was something of a let down. I suppose it is that I just finished Delicious, by Ruth Riechl, who really knows how to write about food.
review 2: This was a readers choice book from the library and I can see why. I thoroughly enjoyed the idea of the book. It was a romance but had a little more to it than the classic boy meets girl plot. I thought it was fun and kept me entertained.Now to the not so good......I gave it a 4 star rating because I really did like it and wanted to read it HOWEVER, the use of foul language seemed forced and silly in this book. The language was placed in the book where it was almost as if the author was trying to play grown up and throw down a vulgar word to make the book better or more grown up (which of course ruins it for me, offensive and makes me like the book less). It certainly didn't need ANY of the bad language and seemed silly that she used it at all.Another thing that bugged me was that the book has several references to the main character's cinnamon buns (it even mentions it on the front of the cover from another author who reviewed the book). At the back of the book there are several recipes for foods that were mentioned in the book but NOT for the cinnamon buns - strange! less

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