Reviewed by Dan

TITLE:    All I Believe

SERIES:   Firsts and Forever Series #10

AUTHOR:     Alexa Land

PUBLISHER:  Self-Published

LENGTH:     269 Pages

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Nico Dombruso has learned to keep the world at arm’s length after being badly burned by his last relationship. Even so, he decides to let himself enjoy a summer fling while on vacation in Italy. It’s just sex after all, so what’s the harm?

He gets so much more than he bargained for when he meets gorgeous, mysterious, art dealer Luca Caruso. The connection between them is undeniable, and for the first time in years, Nico starts to consider the possibility of trusting his tattered heart to someone again.

But when a secret is revealed that shakes him to his core and threatens to tear his family apart, Nico runs, so far and so fast that no one, not even the man who was making him believe he could love again, might ever be able to reach him.

REVIEW:

What a surprise. Another Alexa Land book and another Five Star story. Did you catch the sarcasm there? I’m starting to think Alexa might have sold her soul or something, because her stories just keep getting better. Every time I say that I’m going to hand future reviews in the series off to other reviewers, a new one comes out and I’m jumping up and down saying “me, me, me”!

In this, the tenth installment in the increasingly larger series, we step back and sideways from the events in Coming Home, to the mysterious vacation that Nico, Jessie and Nana took to Italy. Although the vacation was mentioned previously, we never had the details.

In the Dombruso ancestral village of Viladembursa, Nico Dombruso got his first kiss from a mysterious boy a couple years older than him when he was only fourteen. Unfortunately after the kiss, they parted ways and he never was able to find the boy again, since he didn’t get his name.

Now it is years later. Nico has been shut down since the incident with his Ex and his former best friend, when the two cheated on him behind his back and ended up a couple. Now on the vacation, Nico plans to expand his horizons and maybe even have a quick fling before going back to law school.

But did I mention Nana is also on the trip? I literally was roaring out loud with laughter at some of the first pages in the book. Nana, being Nana, tries to smuggle lube on the plane…bacon flavored lube at that, and through Nana’s normal high jinx, somehow Nico ends up covered in lube, smelling like bacon and having to fly from San Francisco to Rome in the same clothes.

I loved the loss of his luggage, the dogs, and finally him meeting a nice guy. Luca is an art dealer who happens to be in town seeing a local gallery owner and sparks fly when Luca rescues Nico, not once, but twice from embarrassing situations.

All seems perfect. But remember this is the Dombruso clan. Nothing is ever perfect! Something has to go wrong…and boy does it! No more spoilers!

I loved this one, as usual. I very highly recommend that you all hit one click right now, and if you haven’t read the rest of the series, you should one click those as well. I can honestly say that every person I’ve recommended Ms. Land’s books to, has come back raving. Take my advice. Check her out today.

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