Finished reading on: April 28, 2007
I like you to death
Title of the original version reviewed: «Mi piaci da morire»
AI Translation Notice: This review was translated from the original Italian using artificial intelligence. Book quotes and excerpts are translated interpretations and will not match the author's original English phrasing or official published translations.
Monica lives in New York and wants to be a writer; instead, she works in a clothing store.
After a series of romantic misadventures, she meets an English publisher (a veritable “Prince Charming”), who not only falls in love with her but enables her to publish a book.
This is a novel riddled with clichés (Monica lives with a ditzy Puerto Rican woman who gets pregnant, and a gay man), sappy sentimentality, and banalities.
The story could just as easily be set in Rome as in New York, and utterly lacks any depth in its exploration of emotions and events.
Yet do such books really find success?