The Star Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman

Publisher: Berkley, PenguinRandomHouse

Publication date: November 17th 2020 

Pages: 400

Emilia is part of a big Italian family that since decades is living in Brooklyn, New York. She is single and works as a baker in the bakery of her grandfather. Her love live is non-existent though, which she would live to see differently. There is this belief though in her family that all the women are cursed that goes back two hundred years ago and will never find true love.

But her life makes an unexpected turn when she gets a letter from her aunt Poppy, the sister of her nonna Rosa. Poppy asks her to accompany her on a travel to her homeland Italy. She hesitates if she should go, due to her troubled relationship with her Nonna who tells her not to go, but eventually, after a visit to Poppy, she agrees, and her cousin Lucy will accompany her on the travel to Italy.

In Italy they find out why they are there, Poppy is ill and the travel is important for her to give some things that happened when she was young a place and to find Rico. Aunt Poppy vows she’ll meet the love of her life, Rico, on the steps of the Ravello Cathedral on her eightieth birthday, and break the Fontana Second-Daughter Curse once and for all.

The Star Crossed Sisters of Tuscany is a very elegant and charming written book that takes you to New York and Italy in a whim. I really liked the style of writing. It really takes you to Italy and what I also liked that the chapters alternate between Emilia in the present time and Poppy in the past. Poppy's past forms the red line of the story, alltough it isn't set fully in the past. When Poppy was young she wanted nothing more then to marry the love of her life Rico. But Poppy lived in a family where her father had the last say in everything she had to do in her live, and her path was already decided for her. She had to marry and move to America with the husband her dad had chosen for her. But during their time in Italy, mostly in Venice and Tuscany, Emilia and Lucy find out there is another secret in her past that has been hidden till now, but now comes out, and it put everything they knew about their family in a different place.

I really liked how in the last part of the book, the story had some secrets unraveled, and how everything turned out  and was wrapped up, it really was a nice ending to a very nice read! Recommended!