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Monday, September 9, 2013

***Sandy B's Review of Turn Towards the Sun by Jennifer Domenico***



Turn Towards the Sun – Jennifer Domenico
“He could talk about dog sh*t and I would think it was hot.” – Ava Bradshaw
“I want you, Ava.  All of you.”  He caresses my cheek.  I want your kisses.  I want your body. I want your heart.” – Enzo
BLURB
Ava Bradshaw is stuck in mid-flight. On the edge of her thirtieth birthday, she finally ends a devastatingly bad relationship that left her wounded and insecure. With a plane ticket in her hand, she sets out to make a life for herself in sunny Phoenix, Arizona.

What she didn’t plan on was meeting the intense Italian architect Enzo Milano, a local celebrity in Phoenix. The handsome and commanding Enzo sweeps the passionate and vibrant Ava into his world of galas, prestige, luxury, and money.

Enzo is charming, breathtakingly gorgeous, and a self-made American success story. He’s also a seasoned womanizer who has zero interest in relationships. Still, he can’t deny there is something special about Ava and considers trying an old-fashioned romance.

Sexy, humorous, and touching, Turn Towards the Sun will resonate with any woman whose life didn’t quite work out as she planned.

Sandy B' Review

Ava Bradshaw comes home early from a disastrous girls trip to find her boyfriend asleep, in their bed, with a naked woman.  Does she scream?  Does she throw things?  No! She turns around, walks out, leaving everything behind and goes to her parents house. Her solution to this mess that is now her life?  She decides to move to Arizona and start over from scratch.  Also promises  to swear off men for at least a year. 
Enzo Milano is a rich relatively famous architect and hotel magnate.  He’s been once burned so he’s twice shy and is all about going from woman to woman for casual encounters without any kind of commitment.  He surrounds himself with his assorted siblings and grows his empire.  His business, his family and Italy are his life and the things that he loves the most.
How do these two meet? Ava gets bumped to 1st class so that a family can all sit together and gets seated next to Enzo.  Ava thinks he is the most beautiful man she’s ever laid eyes on.  At this point we don’t know what Enzo thinks of Ava but he decides to be nice to her.  Unfortunately or fortunately in this case, he introduces her to Lambrusco.  Her nerves make her drink a little too much too fast and Ava ends up drunk.  Her belongings haven’t arrived and she doesn’t have the keys to her new apartment.  I guess this move wasn’t fully thought out in her haste to get the heck out of Dodge.  What’s a girl supposed to do?  What else?  Accept the offer of the rich, hotel owning, very sexy man that sat next to you on the plane.  Did I mention that Enzo is Italian and has an accent?!  C’mon who could resist that combination?!  The promise to swear off men for a year goes out the window as fast as a snowflake would melt in hell.
Enzo continues to be generous.  Ava is overwhelmed and really not sure how to deal with Enzo’s financial generosity, his sweet words and his romantic gestures.  Oh!  What a problem to have!  There are definitely some bumps in the road, a bad “guy” that threatens their safety and just enough angst so that it won’t make your teeth hurt. Turn Towards the Sun is instalove for sure.  It is also sweet and tender, very Pretty Womanish and I loved it.  Jennifer Domenico even manages to weave in the theme of “family” and all that entails. Honestly, this was just what the doctor ordered because I’ve been reading some really emotional angsty stuff lately.
As I type this I am really looking forward to Book #2 called “After the Rain” which is sitting on my Kindle.  Thank you Jennifer for writing feel good stuff that still brings the sexy. 

About the Author

Twitter:  jendomenico 

Influences:  I love Italy and anything related to it. Books are fascinating. I recently fell back in love with fiction, including the 50Shades Trilogy. I love Italy and anything related to it. Books are fascinating. I recently fell back in love with fiction, including the 50Shades Trilogy.(less)

Jennifer Domenico started writing as a five-year old child in the back of her mother’s bible in church. It was a way to keep the fidgety child quiet but even then she took simple stories and twisted them into even more imaginative tales. As she grew, the stories grew with her and she filled notebook after notebook with her musings.

As an adult, she knew she wanted to be a writer but she lacked the attention span and inspiration required to produce a full length story. Eventually she put away her notebooks and turned her attention to the business world where she toiled away for many years.

She stopped reading fiction, stopped entertaining her outlandish imagination, and stopped dreaming of being a writer. Until one day, many months ago she wen...mo
Jennifer Domenico started writing as a five-year old child in the back of her mother’s bible in church. It was a way to keep the fidgety child quiet but even then she took simple stories and twisted them into even more imaginative tales. As she grew, the stories grew with her and she filled notebook after notebook with her musings.

As an adult, she knew she wanted to be a writer but she lacked the attention span and inspiration required to produce a full length story. Eventually she put away her notebooks and turned her attention to the business world where she toiled away for many years.

She stopped reading fiction, stopped entertaining her outlandish imagination, and stopped dreaming of being a writer. Until one day, many months ago she went to sleep and a beautiful love story played out in her dreams.

When she awoke she felt compelled to write it down. And she wrote and she wrote, for days and days she wrote. The result is part one of Enzo and Ava’s story. Turn Towards the Sun is her first, but certainly not her last, novel.

Ms. Domenico lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her very Italian husband, a dog that adores her, two cats that tolerate her, and wicked sweet tooth. She is currently working on part two in the series.

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