She learns that her mother’s love story and her time in Italy is not what she had expected. In an attempt to see Florence and get closer to the truth about her parents, Lina explores the rich country and all its secrets and savories with her friend Ren. With the descriptions in Lina’s mother’s journal, the author takes us around the beautiful & breathtaking sights around Italy. He is always there with her on her quests to explore Italy following the entries made in her mother’s journal. I mean who wouldn’t want to be in love with that. A sweet, charming, generous and honest ” I am always there” kind of a boy who supports and encourages Lina, is the heart of the story. Now, Ren is the character I love the most in the novel. During her search for answers, Lina meets a young boy, Ren, living next door and befriends him. “I made the wrong choice.” The first line of her mother’s journal makes Lina want to understand what really happened and how everything came to be what it is now. Struggling through her mother’s death, she is handed over her mother’s journal for when she studied photography in Florence. As promised to her dying mother, Lina arrives in Italy only to find out that she would be living in a cemetery. The story is about a sixteen-year-old Lina who sets on a journey to Italy to spend the summers getting to know her father, Howard. It is filled with love, romance, friendship, mystery, and adventure. Set amidst the beautiful landscapes of Italy, Love & Gelato is the debut novel by Jenna Evans Welch. Kirkus Reviews called Love & amp Gelato “a sure bet for fans of romance fiction,” while VOYA said readers “will find it difficult to put this book down.” Readers are about to discover a new place, a new romance, and a new talent.‘‘You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they stay, it’s for the same two things.’’ People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more. It’s a secret that will change everything Lina knew about her mother, her father–and even herself. 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.
Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy.
But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father.
Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping New York Times bestseller filled with romance, mystery, and adventure.
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