Title: Danté’s
Girl
Series: The
Paradise Diaries, #1
Author: Courtney
Cole
Publisher: Lakehouse
Press
Publication Date: June
24, 2012
Genres: YA,
Romance
Reviewed by: Books4Tomorrow
Source: Purchased
My rating: 4/5
SUMMARY
I have spent every summer since I was ten years
old with my father in London. Every summer, since I was ten years old, has been
uneventful and boring.
Until this year.
And this year, after a freak volcanic eruption strands me far from home, I have learned these things:
1. I can make do with one outfit for three days before I buy new clothes.
2. If I hear the phrase, “You’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto,” even one more time, I might become a homicidal maniac.
3. I am horribly and embarrassingly allergic to jellyfish.
4. I am in love with Dante Giliberti, who just happens to be the beautiful, sophisticated son of the Prime Minister of a Mediterranean paradise.
5. See number four above. Because it brings with it a whole slew of problems and I’ve learned something from every one of them.
Let’s start with the fact that Dante’s world is five light-years away from mine. He goes to black-tie functions and knows the Prime Minister of England on a first name basis. I was born and raised on a farm in Kansas and wear cut-off jeans paired with cowboy boots. See the difference?
But hearts don’t care about differences. Hearts want what they want. And mine just wants to be Dante’s girl.
My heart just might be crazy.
Until this year.
And this year, after a freak volcanic eruption strands me far from home, I have learned these things:
1. I can make do with one outfit for three days before I buy new clothes.
2. If I hear the phrase, “You’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto,” even one more time, I might become a homicidal maniac.
3. I am horribly and embarrassingly allergic to jellyfish.
4. I am in love with Dante Giliberti, who just happens to be the beautiful, sophisticated son of the Prime Minister of a Mediterranean paradise.
5. See number four above. Because it brings with it a whole slew of problems and I’ve learned something from every one of them.
Let’s start with the fact that Dante’s world is five light-years away from mine. He goes to black-tie functions and knows the Prime Minister of England on a first name basis. I was born and raised on a farm in Kansas and wear cut-off jeans paired with cowboy boots. See the difference?
But hearts don’t care about differences. Hearts want what they want. And mine just wants to be Dante’s girl.
My heart just might be crazy.
REVIEW
There’s
not much to say about this book. It’s a pretty straightforward YA romance with
a typical Mary Sue protagonist and the obligatory to-die-for gorgeous
love-interest, not to mention the insta love. Very sweet, very mushy and
swoony; it almost borders on being annoying, and comes close to inspiring a few
eye-rolls. But, as predictable as it was more often than not, I still enjoyed
it. The Caberra Island setting was a welcome change from the usual high school
setting, and what I loved about it was that it maintained that Summer vacation
feeling throughout. I could almost smell the ocean and feel the island breeze
lifting the hair off the back of my neck. To be very honest though, it was
nothing different from your everyday teen rom com, and the rich boy falling in
love with the farm girl from Kansas was relatively entertaining. Dante’s Girl is a light-hearted, fluffy,
candy floss read with a main character most hormonal teen girls will be able to
relate to, especially with all the dramatics. All in all a good, clean read,
perfect for an afternoon next to the pool.
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ABOUT the AUTHOR
Courtney Cole is a novelist who would eat
mythology for breakfast if she could.
She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds.
Every Last Kiss is her debut novel and she followed it with the rest of The Bloodstone Saga (Every Last Kiss, Fated, With My Last Breath and My Tattered Bonds).
Courtney lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake Michigan, with her real-life Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small chance that they get their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic zoo.
She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds.
Every Last Kiss is her debut novel and she followed it with the rest of The Bloodstone Saga (Every Last Kiss, Fated, With My Last Breath and My Tattered Bonds).
Courtney lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake Michigan, with her real-life Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small chance that they get their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic zoo.
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