The Suite Life by Suzanne Corso – a Review

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Description:
IT WAS THE DECADE OF BIG MONEY, BIG RISKS, BIG HAIR, AND BIG DREAMS . . . AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE BIG CITY WHERE IT COULD ALL HAPPEN

Growing up in Brooklyn, Samantha Bonti knew the writer’s life she was meant to live waited across the bridge in Manhattan. Summoning the courage to break free from an abusive mobster boyfriend, Sam finally leaves Bensonhurst and begins her new life, working as a temp in a Wall Street brokerage firm. Quickly, she’s swept off her feet by Wall Street player Alec DeMarco, a man of boundless energy, appetites, desires, and the wealth to indulge it all. In a whirlwind courtship, Alec showers Sam with exquisite gifts, the city’s finest cuisine, spontaneous weekend getaways, and, most of all, the love and security a girl from an unstable Brooklyn upbringing craves. But when the party’s over, when Alec’s high-flying career turns litigious and the big money is left on the table, will love be enough to sustain them?

Review:

The Suite Life by Suzanne Corsi is a story about love, life and living the high life in New York City during the boom years on Wall Street.  Samantha dreams of being a writer and leaves her life in Brooklyn to move across the bridge to Manhattan.  Alec immediately sweeps her off her feet.  Their first date is Sunday Brunch, where Samantha bears her soul to a complete stranger.  He learned about her rough upbringing and her mobster boyfriend.  Wow, some first date!  Alec works on Wall Street and indulges Samantha in every material thing and lavish experience that she can imagine.  Monetary success is very important to Alec, but Samantha likes the simple things in life.  She thinks that she is marrying him for love and security, but her life quickly turns upside down, when their lifestyle becomes unsustainable.  

The best writing of the novel is when life goes terribly wrong and they are about to lose everything.  Samantha must rely on herself, her Faith and her close friends.  She renews her love of writing and follows her personal dream at last!  There are some nicely written life lessons that she tries to teach her daughter.

I loved this quote, “I’d always thought all I wanted was to get over the bridge and have money and success, but if the past decade had taught nothing else, I’d come to realize that all I really wanted was love.  Without that, what do we really have?”  This was a complicated story about love and life and to remember the important things in life!

Reviewed by Jules

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