She’s rude, cocky, gossipy, and downright mean! I mean, come ON. The bullying and rude thoughts are so annoying! And Violet, our main character is exactly the person who made my life miserable in school. These four girls are terrible (well, one of them was not so bad, but it was only because she was so insecure that she couldn’t be cocky)! They constantly think about how someone is fat, or that shade of green makes her skin look putrid, or “thank goodness I have been self tanning for a while”, or how the blonde has nothing between her ears, etc. I hope the author does not believe we’re really like that.Īnd then the high school mentality set in. They act so dumb, snobby, rich, and entitled. First off, the American girls are made out to be materialistic valley girls, and I was embarrassed. I’ve been to Pisa, so I know what it looks like in that area. And I love Italy, and was enjoying reading all about the scenery, and the Tuscan countryside.
I love art history so much, so I was really excited with the mystery posed at the beginning of the book, about the heroine’s doppelganger in a centuries old painting. So… within the first 50 pages of the book, I almost gave up. She gets to spend the summer at a house in Tuscany with 3 really stuck up girls (another English person, and two Americans) and some rude Italian girls… and gets in too deep with a playboy, all while searching to find out whether or not she was adopted, and who this doppelganger was. Her neurotic, overbearing, and borderline insane mother about has a flip-out session, but lets her go. It’s in Italy, so she figures out a way to get herself there as part of a program that is basically finishing school for Italian girls. Violet is our main girl, and she finds out about a centuries old painting that looks just like her. The summary on the back of the book tells very little about what happens in the story.
At that time, I was about to leave for Italy myself, and I love themed reads! I never got around to it while on my trip, though, but I still thought it would be fun to read it as I reminisced. I was in a local creperie, and I might have made a smallish scene when I checked my e-mail and saw that I could download it. I was SO excited when I found out about this book, and even more excited when I found out I was approved for it on Netgalley. Ok, guys… This just might be the biggest disappointment of the summer. and, of course, plenty of gorgeous Italian boys! Family mysteries, ancient castles, long hot nights of dancing under the stars. One magical, and possibly dangerous Italian summer. Published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers on June 12, 2012įour girls.
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