My Review:
When her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio
takes over as head of the family and at the family business, a luxury haute
couture Italian leather brand. Struggling
to process her grief, run the family business as well as help her two siblings:
Allegra, who survived the accident that took their parents lives and left her
with a spinal injury and her brother, Luca, who prefers to party, women and not
make anything in his life. Add in taking care of a four-hundred-year-old
Palazzo that has been in their family forever in Venice. At twenty-three,
Cosima is struggling but she survives and manages to keep things in balance at
the expense of her personal life. But things take a turn when after many years
married to her job, she meets Olivier Baynard who is the founder and owner of
France’s successful ready to wear handbag company A brief conversation turns
into a tour of the Saverio workshop and that turns into a friendship that just
might be what Cosima needs at this juncture of her life.
Life has a way of throwing curveballs and when Cosima’s
brother, Luca, loses a significant sum of money, she has to decide if bailing
her wastrel brother once again or maybe this time let him fend for himself for
the first time in his life. When the stakes become even higher, Cosima will need the strength to make
the right decisions that will not cause her to lose everything she has worked
so hard for since twenty-three.
PALAZZO is a tale of family, tragedy and resilience wrapped
up in the pages of the latest Danielle Steel book. This author is a hit or miss
with me, but PALAZZO delivers on keeping my attention and kept me glued to the pages.
Maybe it was the complex cast of characters to the exotic settings of Italy and
France that kept me entertained but overall, this book hit all the high nots
for me as a reader. The setting is as lush as the Italian landscapes to
characters that had me rooting for Cosima to find her way after a tragedy in
her family. But what worked for me was how one woman’s life was turned inside out at such a young age and
she found the strength to move on, to keep things moving in the right
direction, maybe at the expense of her personal life, but it gives the reader a
sense of who this main character is as well as her relationship with her
siblings. I did enjoy Allegra and how the author doesn’t shy away from her
injuries and makes her an upbeat person dealing with a disability that is now
part of her life. I liked how Allegra was described in the book and kept me
entertained with her bubbly personality. I really was rooting for Cosima to see
the light in regard to her brother and in the end, it was a satisfying
resolution on that aspect.
PALAZZO delivers family drama, and tragedy, resilience, love
and more all wrapped within its pages. For this latest Danielle Steel book, I
really recommend it if you enjoy family dynamics, entertaining and complex
characters that feel real within the pages and issues that deal with any family
amid tragedy and family dynamics.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement.
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