Author: Jenna Evans Welch
Title: Love & Gelato
Genre: YA, Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Travel
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Cover Designer: Karina Granda
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Excerpt
A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping debut novel filled with romance, mystery, and adventure.
Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.
But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. It’s a secret that will change everything Lina knew about her mother, her father—and even herself.
People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more
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Brandi's Review
If I could give this more stars I would! I absolutely loved this book! It only took me a day, even though I wanted to take my time and really absorb Italy, Lina and Ren; I just couldn't make myself stop. I'm from the US, so I really enjoyed the change in setting with Florence, Italy. A lot happens in to Lina once she arrive to Florence in such a short time but Jenna did a wonderful job writing it so that the feelings that develop didn't feel rushed, it felt genuine.
I'm definitely telling all my friends they need to read Love & Gelato this summer! Great light summer read, it's light and funny ( I lol-ed multiple times). This book just put me in a great mood.
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