Title: Peter Mayle ripoff without the sense of humor!
Product review: I have read only 92 pages of this book and I'm not sure if I can finish it. I haven't read the first book, but it has to be better than this. My impression is that Mayes is trying to imitate the success of Peter Mayles's hilarious books about restoring a house in the French countryside, but she doesn't have the wit to do so.I can hardly believe this woman is a university professor with the trite writing. Some of her meanderings on the Veneto, religion, and plants are positively painful.The cover photograpy is beautiful, but it's downhill from there.And I really don't need to hear about Ed's sexy back.
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