Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

by Jenna Evans Welch

“I made the wrong choice.”

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 go back home.

But then she 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 her, 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 she 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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3.5 stars

This was fun and adorable and very well-written. For being someone who isn't the biggest contemporary fan, it's books like this that remind me how enjoyable they can be. Love & Gelato is a perfect summertime read, because the story is light but doesn't lack depth (a balance I struggle to find sometimes in "fluffier" contemporary). The characters were well-fleshed out and the romance was beyond cute. I'd recommend this book even to readers who, like me, tend to stick to fantasy and literary fiction.

(Sidenote: When will Goodreads allow half-star ratings?!...)

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