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One Italian Summer
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Anita
Mar 18, 2022 rated it it was amazing
I could hardly wait to read this since I loved this author’s last novel In Five Years. This was another winner. Katie’s mother was her best friend and when she dies, Katie is lost. She decides to take the trip to Italy that they had planned to take together and finds her mother there, years before when she was just thirty. This novel is about the emotions of losing someone close to you and having to reexamine your own life in a world without them. So relatable and believable, even the parts of t ...more
Laura
May 09, 2022 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Jen Ciccotto
3.5 stars - The scenery and food are enough to make me recommend this book!! Her writing truly transported me to the Hotel Poseidon in Positano and I really hope to visit there one day in real life.

The storyline was fun, but I found the main character to be pretty unlikeable. It was hard to imagine someone being that dependent on their mother.

This was a nice, quick read and if you want to feel like you've traveled without leaving your couch, this is the book for you!
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Sara
3-3.5

Liked reading about Positano but Katy was not my favorite. Naive/sheltered/willfully unaware/selfish.
Megan BG
Oct 30, 2022 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I enjoyed it, but I always overthink time travel books and have so many questions.
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