Lauraine Snelling has been writing for so long, she has honed her craft into some of the finest fiction I've ever read. I love the premise that she uses with her latest offering--a group of friends in the empty-nest years of their lives with new opportunities granted by a friend who passed away.
Breeanna is dealing with her daughter's spendthrift ways and her son's growing family. When she gets this windfall that has been marked for a trip to Italy, Bree's daughter thinks that she should help her out of her financial woes instead.
Breeanna is also a member of a writing group that meets periodically to discuss their writings and to just have some time for girl-talk. When all of the members of the group chime in that they have been the recipients of the late members largesse, Bree is beginning to believe that this is a providential event and that they should plan the trip they all wanted to go on for so long.
In the midst of the planning for the trip, one of Bree's friends lost her husband suddenly, and Bree meets the friend's brother-in-law and they hit it off. As Bree navigates reentry into the dating world, she finds herself in quite the conundrum. She wants to go to Italy, but she also wants to see where this relationship will go.
The Florentine Legacy is not a romance novel, per se, but there is romance in it. What I liked best about it is that it is a great novel about friendships of mature women, some of whom are navigating life with their grown children--especially knowing when and how much to help them with their problems.
I especially loved how Lauraine described the trip to Italy, she made it come alive so that the reader feels they are experiencing the same things the characters are.
This is a five star book, with two thumbs up, and a lesson on cooking some REAL Italian food.
FaithWords Publishing provided the copy I read for this review. All opinions expressed are solely my own.
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