You’d think I’d have read Brava Valentine a long time ago – all of those ads for Adriana Trigiani that were on BlogHer should have reminded me to reserve the darn thing, right? Well no. I was so busy clicking on the ad every time I saw it that I must have just thought I had reserved it. If I hadn’t seen it just sitting on the shelf during our last trip the library, I might not have read this for ages. Or at least until her next book came out and I was reminded that I’d missed one.
Anyway. This one picks up where Very Valentine left off. And I liked it but I was really getting tired of Valentine’s self deprecating remarks. I love the Angelini family (especially the new relatives in Buenos Ares) but Valentine might actually be my least favorite member of the family – which is saying something since I don’t really love Alfred. I liked Valentine more in the last book – in this one, while I liked the story and finding out what happened next… the first 100 pages or so almost killed me. I just wanted to shake her and tell her to cut it the hell out.
If there’s another book, she’s not going to do that – right???