I'm so.. loss at words. I truly don't even know what happened, I'm so lost and confused and angry and so fucking mad. but bear with me because I have a lot to say.
okay so I've kind of lost hope in cora for a while now, I just think I grow out of her type of stories but I keep reading them just out of curiosity and maybe because deep down I have hope maybe I will eventually like one of her books (happened with amogreta's so) but well, this wasn't one of those so..

this book was just one giant mess, an enormous accident that made me feel physical pain but I couldn't keep my eyes off of it–i had to finish the book, because I just knew that otherwise I would've dnf it.

first of all, I liked aurora. she was a nice girl, bit clumsy but was fearless and very very strong–justice for what cora did to her!
I really loved how she contrasted with nevio, she had this kind of innocence that came with someone who truly loves with her whole heart, she was passionate and had goals and dreams and then.. 50% of the book happened.
nevio was a little shit. don't throw at me excuses as "oh he's just darkness he was a darkness very dark very darkness" he was very immature and okay this is what I really want to rant about: it makes sense why he's like that, both remo and serafina had very different lives, so nevio grow up with different challenges and therefore it makes sense he's detached and maybe blindly believes he could've easily managed what remo went through etc etc but my god he was insufferable, I never, even once, cared for him. he made me so mad all the time, he was always running from things he should confront (as opposed to aurora who was actually the one to stand her ground and fought for what she wanted ugh I love her), he truly felt as if even in his 20s he was still a teenager. and maybe he's just stepping into adulthood, it's not an easy thing, but he's not fifteen either, don't give me such a dumb act and then expect me to just brush it off. he should've beg more. fabiano should've kicked his ass.
why does cora hate aurora so much?? I don't want to say a child is a punishment but she was so young and almost left all her career for a kid that wasn't hers (nevermind nevio didn't want him either 💀) why why oh why did you choose this troupe ????
I know the whole thing about sins of the father is that the parents' sins affected their children (luca didn't do anything with serafina's kidnapping and then marcella got kidnapped, serafina left her family the same way greta left for new york and amo, idl about the outfit nothing about them makes sense I think cora blacks out when she writes about them) it was such a cool concept, but here it's just ??? it's supposed to mirror how remo wasn't there for his children's first years but doesn't make sense bc remo didn't knew about their existence, while nevio walked away from his kid it's not the same.
two stars because aurora is one star herself.

the rest of the characters? immaculate. remofina remains superior my god I love them so fucking much.
fabiano and leona were also lovely, such good parents ugggghhh loved them !!!!

honestly I have faith in massimocarlotta and saramaximus, I need both of their books.

I truly suspect cora loves the famiglia, hates the camorra and genuinely doesn't care about the outfit.