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After losing her mother to cancer, Katy feels devastated. Her mother was her best friend, the one with all the answers. Losing her makes Katy doubt everything in her life. She is not sure she wants to remain married to her husband, Eric. She is lost in despair and grief.Needing a change and a place to clear her head, she decides to take the trip to Italy she and her mother, Carol had planned. The Amalfi Coast was a place quite dear to her mother. Carol had spent time there before she was married...
As featured in the March 22 edition of Quick Lit on Modern Mrs Darcy:Funny thing: I'd been thinking about reading this, and finally decided to begin when I found out Lauren Graham read the audiobook, perhaps because the epigraph is from Gilmore Girls. But then I got swept up in the story and wanted to finish as quickly as possible so I switched to print. Ha! When twenty-something Katy loses her mother to cancer, she loses her best friend in the world, and she has no idea what to do next. She mak...
3 Armchair Traveler StarsKaty has a unique relationship with her mother, she’s her best friend and she relies on her mom to do just about everything for her. Her mom picks out her furniture and decorates her house, makes recommendations on every life choice. Katy never learned to cook from her mom. So, it’s a huge tragedy when her mother gets sick and dies just before her 60th birthday. Katy is devastated and decides to take the planned mother-daughter trip to Italy by herself. Her husband is ve...
Wow, I loved this book! My profile picture is actually Positano, the backdrop of this novel. This summer I went with my family to the breathtaking and gorgeous Amalfi Coast. We stayed in a hotel on a cliff overlookingthe sea lined with boats. This book brought back all the feels from one of my favorite places on the planet. The first time I had ever gone was in winter, but enjoyed it even more in summer.One Italian Summer tells the beautiful story of Katy, a woman reeling from unimaginable grief...
3.5 STARS I feel like I've been to Italy.It was a virtual trip, but I enjoyed all the descriptions of the beautiful towns nestled into hillsides, cozy hotels, picture perfect sunsets, and yummy food. My mouth was watering after reading about bright fruits, breads, muffins, buttery croissants and more!I went into this story blind, so I was a bit blindsided by the turn it took! Katy and her mom, Carol had planned a trip to Italy together, but Carol dies before they get to go. She tells her husband...
Holy book connections, Batman! This is my second book featuring Positano in a week. The other one was By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate. So, I see that this new titles from Rebecca Serle is getting some mixed reviews. The one thing I love, love, love about Rebecca Serle's books is the time slip tropes. Our MC finds herself in another time and/or is interacting with other characters outside of time. Serle also excels in writing about female relationships. In her previous title, In Five Years, best...
As part of my reading plans for 2022, I'm committed to selecting more new releases and branching further out of my normal mystery / thriller genres. When I read the description of Rebecca Serle's One Italian Summer, it sounded exciting. A 30ish American woman's mother passes away unexpectedly, so she takes the Positano trip they'd always dreamed about, but all on her own. When she arrives, the woman 'meets' her mother there, and readers are left wondering... is this science-fiction, fantasy, or
The setting is the shining star of One Italian Summer, which transports you to Positano and the Amalfi Coast. Katy has traveled to Italy after her mom dies to take the mother-daughter trip they had planned together. She’s devastated about the loss of her mom, unsure about her relationship with her husband, and uncertain about her future. Once she arrives in Italy, Katy meets locals at the hotel and a woman, Carol, who, she can’t believe it, is her mom, 30 years ago. Katy connects with Carol, oth...
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY!An entertaining trip through Italy. While enjoyable, it’s missing the emotional punch I expected.Katy’s mother has recently passed away, and she is in grief mode. Before her mom, Carol, died, they planned a trip to Italy. That was Carol’s trip of a lifetime, and she wanted her daughter to experience it too. Unfortunately, Carol passes away a few weeks before their vacation. Katy makes a rare, bold decision. She is going to take the trip on her own. Just as she’s enjoying th...
When Carol dies, Katy loses more than her mother-she loses her best friend.They were supposed to take a mother-daughter trip to Positano, Italy for Carol’s 60th birthday, but she passes away before they can make the journey, so Katy decides to make it an “ Eat, Pray, Love” (Elizabeth Gilbert) trip instead-leaving behind her grieving Dad, and Eric, the husband she isn’t sure she wants to be married to anymore. She tells him this bluntly and unkindly, and she won’t even let him see her off at the
I became a life-long fan of Rebecca Serle during In Five Years, and One Italian Summer just cemented it.She has this beautiful, magical way of writing that makes the impossible seem so possible. I felt everything right alongside Katy... The loss, the grief, the joy of seeing her mother again, her need to find herself. Excuse me while I look at flights to Italy and go hug my mom.
