Lina and her love interest, Ren, are good characters, as is Howard. Welch also throws in a few (predictable) curves but that doesn’t diminish Love & Gelato‘s enjoyment factor. Of course, how could you be in Florence (or any part of Italy for that matter) and not meet up with romance and heartbreak? Lina meets up with both. There is something to be said for the predictable…as long as it’s readable, both of which are Love & Gelato, Jenna Evans Welch’s debut novel. It is with reluctance and trepidation that Lina flies off to meet her father for the first time. How could this be…that he could be her father and never, ever contacted her? Before she is reluctantly ready to go, her grandmother tells her that Howard is actually her father. Hadley dies in the middle of the school term and Lina decides to finish out the term living at her best friend Addie’s house. Lina begins to wonder why Howard is being brought up all of the sudden. Show More never mentioned in Lina’s seventeen year life. The novel’s pace is just about perfect and the trip to Italy is a great escape with a happy ending! You’ll want to move there as soon as you finish reading! There are parallel love stories with Hadley that resulted in her pregnancy with Lina and then Lina’s romance with her beau. You absolutely feel like you are in Italy-the author lived in Florence, so the scenes are vivid. Both Hadley and Lina experience the true world of Florence, Italy, and find romance.
She and Ren visit the places her mom visited. Lina spends her time reading about her mom and her romance in Italy that resulted in Lina. Howard’s friend gives Lina the journal Hadley mailed to Italy before she died. Lina never knew her mother ever lived in Italy or knew anyone in Italy.
Lina, though, really wants to learn about her mother. She’s having a great time with these new people and experiencing new activities. She’s particularly fond of Thomas, the really good looking British guy who seems to like her as well. Lina doesn’t have time to be bored there’s always a party in interesting places.
He invites her to hang out with him and his friends who all attend the American school.
Going for a quick run, she meets Ren, the nearby neighbor. Lina finds herself living in a cemetery because Howard is the caretaker of a memorial to American soldiers it’s a beautiful place, but it’s difficult to look at grave stones after her mom’s death. Show More arrives in Italy, meets Howard, and is determined to move back to the States to live with her best friend.
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