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 she 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 from Lina for far too long. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. Series: Love & Gelato Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch Book Review Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch Book Review Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch. 2022 Maturity Rating: 13+ 1h 52m Romantic Comedies.

But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.īut then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more. 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. Though the book's a light, fun read, it deals with a teen, Lina, who has lost her mother to cancer and is trying to figure out who her real father is.

A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping debut novel filled with romance, mystery, and adventure. Parents need to know that Love & Gelato is a combination romance and coming-of-age novel set in and around Florence, Italy.

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