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.

Reviewed by kymmiejournals on

4 of 5 stars

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Finished the book within a day cause it’s a real page-turner. It was about a daughter’s love for her mom and learning a whole different side of her. It was kind of creepy, not sure if living in a cemetery is significant in the main story of Hadley and Howard. It would be really nice if author would use “secret gelato” something instead of a secret bakery, in relation with the book’s title. It’s great and all but it could be better.

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  • 10 May, 2018: Reviewed