Brava, Valentine

Brava, Valentine
By Adriana Trigiani
Harper Collins, 2010, 332 pages, Fiction.

In this sequel to Very Valentine, Valentine Roncalli has now taken over the family shoe company where they make custom wedding shoes. Valentine has big plans to turn the company into a designer shoe store, but when her grandmother forces a partnership between Valentine and her judgmental brother, Alfred, she fears their animosity toward one another will hinder any progress the company might make.

Valentine also has romantic troubles. Gianluca, the sexy older Italian man she first met in Very Valentine is pursuing her. He seems like the perfect man, but she doesn’t have time to focus on a relationship (especially a long distance one) when she is trying to save Angelini Shoes. And of course her crazy Italian-American family is always in the mix.

I have enjoyed reading this series. Trigiani always has excellent characters dealing with real issues set in beautifully descriptive worlds.

AJ