Julie and Romeo Get Lucky [Kindle Edition]

Jeanne Ray (Author)

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"Wise, winsome, and refreshingly optimistic."

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Julie Roseman and Romeo Cacciamani know a thing or two about good fortune. For generations, their families were rival florists and bitter enemies. Then Julie and Romeo met by chance, just as each became single again. Even more miraculous, they fell in love.

Three years later, Julie and Romeo are still blissfully happy. They don't often get a quiet moment alone, and rarely manage a night -- quiet or otherwise -- in the same bed, but Julie feels blessed by what they do have: true love, wonderful jobs, and houses packed to the rafters with family. Romeo's ninety-three-year-old mother, his son Alan, Alan's wife and their three children live with him; Julie's daughter Sandy and her family -- including Sandy's Willy Wonka-obsessed daughter, Sarah, and their cat -- live with her. The odds of Julie and Romeo getting a few days of peace together seem about as likely as winning the lottery.

But their wish comes true -- with a twist -- when an injury puts Romeo flat on his back in Julie's room. Spending days in bed may sound heavenly, but with Romeo on pain pills, initially as comatose as Juliet in her tomb, the reality is less romantic. Then Julie's other daughter, Nora, drops her own crisis on her mother's doorstep. Now Julie has to figure out how to run two flower shops, take care of an ever-expanding household, nurse her beloved Romeo back to health, tackle Sarah's fixation with lottery tickets, and keep her daughters from regressing into full-scale teenage bickering. And Lady Luck has one more surprise in store....

Wonderfully witty and unerringly wise, Julie and Romeo Get Lucky is a smart, heartwarming story of timeless love and family loyalty, and a reminder that if you suddenly get everything you ever wished for, the only thing to do is live happily ever after.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 341 KB
• Print Length: 288 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1416509704
• Publisher: Pocket Books (June 1, 2005)
• Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000FCK6C0
• Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,979 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Continuing Adventures of Julie and Romeo, June 11, 2005

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Nancy R. Katz "NancyK18" (NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Julie and Romeo Get Lucky (Hardcover)

Julie and Romeo is a fast and light read which reunites the two families we first met in Jeanne Ray's debut book Julie and Romeo. Like all of Ms. Ray's suceeding book this one doesn't fail to deliver the reader a fun time with the two families who once arch rivals and enemies, now friends and lovers.

While Julie and Romeo maintain their own homes which are filled with their children, grandchildren and Romeo's mother, their love for one another is still as intenseas when they were in high school and met again years later.But then Romeo has a back injury cdarrying Julie up the stairs and is confined to Julie's upstairs bedroom. And As if that wasn't enough Julie's daughter is preganant and confined to bed rest and where does she choose to do this but in Julie's living room. And rounding out the family dynamics is Julie's grandaughter whose family also lives with and is not only obsessed with the movie from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory but the lottery as well.

What ensues is a wild and madcap comedy of large families getting along and not getting along. The ending is a pure delight and has you wondering if there will be a next book to find out what adventues and misadventures the clans have been up to. In the tradition of a zany Frank Capra movie, this is a perfect read for a lazy summer's day.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect little story, May 25, 2005

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N. Gargano "nokegchris" (Waynesville NC and Bradenton, Fl) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Julie and Romeo Get Lucky (Hardcover)

I really enjoyed this sequel, I think it is Ms. Ray's best book since she first introduced us to the characters in Julie and Romeo. Of course it could just be that I was so glad to be visiting these families again.
I won't go into the details of the story, the Amazon description does that quite well, but if you liked Julie and Romeo, you won't want to miss this one. I started reading and found I coudn't tear myself away until the end...I think Ms. Ray's readers are the "lucky" ones.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Humorous look at love and luck, June 14, 2005

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Eileen Rieback (Coral Springs, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Julie and Romeo Get Lucky (Hardcover)

Julie Roseman's life is complicated enough with her daughter Sandy, her son-in-law, and her two grandkids living with her. But when her true love Romeo Cacciamani damages his back in an ill-advised attempt to carry her up the stairs, he winds up confined to her bed for an indefinite period since he cannot be moved. Then Julie's older daughter Nora arrives on the scene with her own medical problem and moves in, and the house becomes very crowded. Throw in granddaughter Sarah's obsession with Willie Wonka and with lottery tickets, add regular visits from Romeo's sizable Cacciamani clan, and total chaos ensues. With all this confusion, there's not much time left for minding the family florist business. Although the situation seems difficult, Julie finds that good luck comes in family-sized packages.

This is the typical feel-good Jeanne Ray story, where the bustle and domestic squabbles of a close-knit household test the strength of the most patient of mothers, and where the family is brought closer together through love and a mild, and almost humorous, crisis. Ray's stories almost have the feel of fairy tales, since they tend to have happily-ever-after endings. In this one, Lady Luck is a veritable fairy godmother. I didn't enjoy this book as much as its predecessor, "Julie and Romeo," perhaps because as a sequel it didn't have the novelty of the original. But it was still a quick and fun read - the kind that had me smiling as I closed the cover. It's a great beach book.

Eileen Rieback