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jlange64's review
4.0
I listened to the audio version of this and loved it! The author does does a great job of the narration. After listening to Big Stone Gap (first in the series) I had to get the next book too. I wasn't disappointed. While this book takes on more serious subject matter, I think I almost liked it better! I'm really enjoying the characters and can't wait to listen to the next book in the series.
missyglee's review
4.0
After a slowish start, this really picked up for me... I became emotionally tied to Ave Maria... cried several times and really just enjoyed reading about her journey through a difficult time in her marriage.
I'll be reading the next installment, for sure :)
I'll be reading the next installment, for sure :)
mathyoda1971's review
2.0
I didn't enjoy this book as much as the first. Ave Maria is still someone I'd like to know in real life, and there are some places in the book that are laugh out loud funny, but I found myself more than once being disappointed in the characters' choices as if the characters were real people that I cared about deeply. Trigiani does a wonderful job of hooking readers and giving her characters real depth, I just wanted them to behave differently. On technical merits, this book is deserving of five stars, but for me, the story just wasn't what I wanted.
toria's review
4.0
A brilliant book. Don't think its as good as the first in the series 'big stone' gap but a brilliant read all the same. The locations, both in usa and italy, sare evocative and the characters well drawn. The book shares the same quiet observational humour as the first book.
blueeyedshook's review
4.0
This book was like coming home. It is so real of a marriage and a family and all the struggles within. And the characters are like friends that you haven't heard from in a few years that you stay up all night to catch up. I enjoyed is as much or even more than its predecessor, Big Stone Gap.
inkdrinkermal's review
1.0
Did not finish.
It's a shame that this book was so misguided and sexist. I really enjoyed the first book, the characters and town are memorable, and you care so much about them. Then this book happened.
NO ONE DESERVES TO BE CHEATED ON. Yet, that's the message of this book. Ave Maria didn't pay enough attention to her husband, because she was too busy raising their daughter, mourning the loss of their son, cleaning, cooking, and working. So, she obviously deserves to be stepped out on.
It also really bothered me that it was all Ave Maria's job. Everything. And yet Jack Mac was irritated when she took the manager position at the Pharmacy without telling him. Like, no. You go girl. You've worked hard. You don't need your husband's permission to accept a promotion that isn't going to uproot the family and is going to provide extra income while he's trying to find another job because the mines closed.
It's a shame that this book was so misguided and sexist. I really enjoyed the first book, the characters and town are memorable, and you care so much about them. Then this book happened.
NO ONE DESERVES TO BE CHEATED ON. Yet, that's the message of this book. Ave Maria didn't pay enough attention to her husband, because she was too busy raising their daughter, mourning the loss of their son, cleaning, cooking, and working. So, she obviously deserves to be stepped out on.
It also really bothered me that it was all Ave Maria's job. Everything. And yet Jack Mac was irritated when she took the manager position at the Pharmacy without telling him. Like, no. You go girl. You've worked hard. You don't need your husband's permission to accept a promotion that isn't going to uproot the family and is going to provide extra income while he's trying to find another job because the mines closed.
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