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I finally took the time to read Roman Crazy this summer and I while I enjoyed the story, I can’t help thinking that Avery’s new life in Italy is so incredible. So incredible that I end up feeling crappy about my own life and I was on vacation. Hey! I don’t often put down a romance and end up feeling bad about myself.
Avery is an attractive woman from a rich family. She marries her college sweetheart but she was meh about their relationship. She would have continued her life of meh except she walked in to find him having sex with his secretary. So Avery leaves him and decides it is time to go visit her best friend from college who is currently working in Italy.
Avery was an artist. It was a part of herself that she set aside to support her country club husband and become the perfect corporate wife. Once Avery arrives in Italy, it doesn’t take long before she wants to create once again. She also happens to have the necessary experience and credentials to volunteer on the project her friend is working on, uncovering frescos and restoring art. Avery is reborne and enjoying herself for the first time in years. (Grumpy Lucy says: Isn’t it nice to have the money to volunteer to do something you love and not worry about paying bills, etc.)
Of course, her first night in Italy, Avery and her friend, Daisy, go out to dinner with work friends and who shows up but gorgeous, Italian Marcello Bianchi and his beautiful date. Marcello turns out out to be the man who Avery had an affair with while taking courses in Spain during college. And yes, by affair, Avery was dating the man she eventual married and who cheated on her, but after bumping into young, sexy Marcello, they bonded and had lots of I’m-not-attending-my-classes-because-I-am-too-busy-having-sex sex. (So yes, it turns out that Avery cheated on the man she was divorcing because he was cheating. Hmmm.) At the end of the semester, Avery returns home to Boston and falls back into old habits with her soon to be husband while poor Marcello waits to hear from her.
Obviously, after being left behind, the reconnection between Marcello and Avery is a bit rocky and takes some time to get back to their perfect match that Avery walked away from all those years ago. But before Marcello and Avery start with the hot and sweaty “bonding” once again, Avery takes walking tours of Italy in between her volunteer days, where she sits around drawing lovely scenes of Italy while drinking fabulous wine and eating amazing Italian food.
Avery is so happy immersed in art and shagging Marcello, she is actually not walking around Italy, she is floating on a cloud of bliss. Avery’s cheating husband is the best thing that every happened to her.
It was an enjoyable story and I am certain it wasn’t their intention to make me jealous of fictitious characters, but Avery’s life was so over-the-top fabulous, it was hard not to be.
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- 7 December, 2018: Reviewed