The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany

There were some good parts in this book, but also some really annoying parts. I could have eliminated Emilia and Lucy and only read Poppy's story and I would have really liked it. Poppy was effervescent and strong-willed, and Emilia was the opposite. I hate when dual perspective books do this. Emilia was the archetypal naïve main character that is trying to find herself throughout the story. She's described as frumpy, but gets a new pair of glasses and suddenly all the men are attracted to her and she then falls in love with them. Of course they all end up not being right for her, but that's all because she has an abusive family who perpetuates a lie about this “curse” that she has. And I'm not even going to get into the token “snarky at first but then sweet and gay” cousin that was written in as some cross between a shoulder angel plot device and an attempt at inclusion for the sake of clout. No thanks. I'm not going to lie, I read the synopsis and thought this would be a fantasy and I think that's why I ended up so disappointed.