It was okay. Don't get me wrong, BUT there are some points that triggered my hate for some things in there. And that's being said AFTER I read it for a second time. - Elena not being the bad bitch lawyer I LOVED in the first part. Like she was feeling like a side character straight out of another book. Didn't recognize her from the first book. - The biggest hate I have is how fucking shit her family is treating her. I don't care that you had a threesome relationship with an actor and his wife but could you fucking apologize to your sister for treating her like everything that happened to her is her fault? Her cheating ex fiance being a happy family with her sister Giselle IS a good point to tell her to fuck everyone. Then there is her other sister constantly lying to her. And her mother WHO FUCKING started to be involved with the mafia? I am feeling for her for having a shitty family that she has to constantly apologize to and makes her feel like shit even though she was the one raising the siblings. - Dante being in love with her sister Cosima, like okay I guess it was in the past?! But she still felt like she was a second option in this duet for every guy she had a relationship with. Including Dante of course. - The absolute fucking tragedy the author is trying to sell us about Italy and it's culture. I mean Elena has a point for not wanting to having to do anything with the mafia or her family. And don't get me wrong it is her decision to never wanting to set a foot in Italy again, BUT the author, and I have to admit, maybe a small part of Americans, think that people from Europe seem to be living in the 18th century. Does she know that Italy and the whole continent has a massive amount of different cultures? Does the author actually know that women here ACTUALLY HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN WOMEN IN THE US RIGHT NOW? It pissed me of how she was trying to justify her view of Italy with a backward culture from the 40s-50s where women had no rights whatsoever. And don't get me started on the italian. I am not speaking italian and I certainly am not italian but it really triggered something inside me that I felt I had to protect the people from Italy!?! Like whenever I was translating something italian from the book, google translator immediately corrected the phrase for me. It really is not that hard. - the epilogue and ending was cute but it still felt rushed. - the writing is worse in the first book. It really felt all over the place and because of her sisters and the background they have it felt a little of for a stand-alone duet. You will feel like there was something you didn't get to the root because you didn't read their books. Get's a tiiiiiny bit better in the second. But still there were phrases that left me cringing hard. But those were already said in other reviews. All in all I can say, I will never be reading her other books. Sometimes I think I will actually come back to this duet but I definitely will not be reading it in the same light I did when I read it for the first time.