Three Coins by Kimberly Sullivan

Hi everyone!  Today I’m sharing my review of Three Coins by Kimberly Sullivan.  For those of you who enjoy books set in Italy, this one may be for you.  This book is available now.

From The Publisher:

One Eternal City. Three women. Three wishes. Three coins.
Emma, an American expat living in Rome for twenty years, can’t count on her ex-husband to help out with the kids when things get tough. Dario Rinaldi, famed plastic surgeon to the stars, is too busy gallivanting around Europe with young women to take an interest in his family.
Beautiful Tiffany, born and bred in Iowa, is desperate to get a spot as a dancer on an Italian television show. But is she willing to do whatever it takes to make her dreams of TV stardom come true?
Annarita, from an Italian-American family in Yonkers, teaches English to over-privileged Italians and regularly has her heart trampled by boyfriends all wrong for her. As her mother is always quick to point out, nothing has gone right for her since she moved to Italy. And she isn’t getting any younger, either.
Emma, Tiffany and Annarita all meet up by chance at a 1950s movie night while on a restorative holiday at a beach resort off-season. The triumphs and hardships of these three very different women become intertwined as they form an unlikely friendship and work to better their messy lives.

Book Review

I loved the idea of this book and the fact it’s based on the movie Three Coins in the Fountain. The story is told in the narrative of each of the three women. I found the stories of each of these women to be entertaining, but I did not feel as connected to this story as I wanted to be.

Let me explain. The story of these three women becoming friends felt a little forced on me.  It felt like they had very little in common and hardly enough to carry on a friendship once they returned to Rome.  Having said that, I did enjoy the way their lives began to intersect and the beneficial relationship that was eventually formed.

One of the other things that took away from my enjoyment of the book was the way many of the Italian men were portrayed. Most of these men were arrogant and chauvinistic and I abhorred the way they were treating women.  I did enjoy the male characters who respected women – a situation in which I have come to expect in life and in the books I choose to read.

All in all, I did enjoy this book.  The first third of the novel reveals the individual storylines which felt a little disconnected but I appreciated the book more as it went along.  The romances found in the book are both expected and surprising.  You will know what I mean if you read this book.

What I Liked:

• The beneficial relationship of the three women
• The discussion of Italian food and the character’s surroundings.
• The romances in the book

I Recommend This Book To:

Those readers who enjoy Women’s Fiction and Romance novels set in Italy and don’t mind male chauvinism.

My Rating:

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

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Acknowledgments:

Thank you to Kimberly Sullivan and Netgalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for the honest review provided here.

Similar Books I’ve Reviewed:

Villa of Sun and Secrets by Jennifer Bohnet

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman

Love Your Life by Sophie Kinsella

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