Love & Gelato (Paperback)

from nbmars

This is a very predictable young adult first romance novel in which 16-year-old Lina Emerson spends a summer in Tuscany, recapitulating a summer her recently deceased mother spent there before Lina was born. What makes this book enjoyable is the Italian setting and the sense of humor of the main ...

from iwriteinbooks

Source: Barnes and Noble I don't often have the experience of completely losing myself in contemporary stories. That privilege is usually reserved for fantasy and sci-fi. Something about world building and magic and escape, I'm sure. With that said, Jenna Evans Welch' s Love & Gelato has changed ...

from MickyFine

In the wake of her mother's death, Lina has been shipped to Italy for the summer to meet the father she didn't know existed. Lina is less than wild about the idea, but even with her consuming grief, Italy has its charms. And when an old acquaintance of her mom's gives Lina the journal her mom wro...

from PaperDollLady

Lina travels to Tuscany, Italy, to honor her mother's dying wish -- that Lina get to know the father she's never known. When Lina arrives there, she's given a journal that her mother kept while living in Italy long ago. Lina absorbs her mother's journal slowly, discovering from her mother's entri...

from jenn88

Sixteen-year-old Lina is spending the summer in Italy only because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know Howard, a father she's never met. Lina just wants to go home, but once she's given a journal that her mother kept when she lived in Italy all those years ago, she seems to uncove...