Adriana Trigiani

When Valentine Roncalli discovers a long lost shoe design, a family secret unravels that helps her take control of the company from a conniving relative, but first she seeks the counsel, and more, of her ex-fiancee, Bret Fitzpatrick, to help re-boot the business while she pursues a hot romance with a handsome Italian from her past. By the best-selling author of Very Valentine. 200,000 first printing.

A Novel

Brava, Valentine

Kourtney

This book could not capture my attention. I won this book from Goodreads and was excited. I heard a lot of good things about the first story, so I thought I could pick up and run with it. That turned out to not be the case.

The book's pacing felt very slow to me. Also, there were references to the first story, so in continuing to read I felt as though I was missing out on important details. After a while, I put the book down to read something else, and now I find that I just don't connect enough with the characters to find out what happens next. I may give this one another try if I ever read the first story.

When Valentine's grandmother begins a new life in Italy, she places Valentine and her nemesis, her brother Alfred, "the Prince," as partners at the Angelini Shoe Company, makers of handcrafted wedding shoes since 1903. A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes Valentine from the winding streets of Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Buenos Aires, where she unearths a long-buried family secret and finds herself torn between a past love that nurtured her and a new one that promises to sustain her, in this "dazzling" (USA Today) follow-up to Very Valentine.

Brava, Valentine A Novel

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