The premise of Love & Gelato is very unique and interesting, and it’s highly enjoyable getting to read Lina’s mother’s diary entries and to see Italy from a different point of view. The plot only complements the adorable writing style. After this, I’m getting the milk and cream out to make my very own stracciatella gelato! The descriptions of Italy are a cinematic experience-the view of Florence is detailed as “a sea of red rooftops under an unblemished blue sky and soft green hills circling everything like a big, happy hug.” I mean, come on if that doesn’t give you warm fuzzies, I don’t know what will.Īnd don’t even get me started on the food. Lina is a sarcastic, food-loving narrator who sometimes makes rash decisions, but is really just trying to navigate the volatile waters of adolescence: friendship, family, and relationships, just to name a few. If nothing else, Love & Gelato is incredibly delightful to read! It has just the right balance of character development, suspense, romance, and humor. The highlights of Italy may be love and gelato, but there is much more to this country than meets the eye. At the same time, she deals with family drama and troubles of the heart. In fact, the diary starts out with the cryptic message, I made the wrong choice, which leaves Lina to ponder: What was this bad decision? Curious for answers, Lina decides to go from city to city with her charming new friend, Ren. Suddenly, Lina is reading about bakeries, artwork, and secrets that she’s never known about before. Then Lina is given the journal her mother kept when she lived in Italy years ago. Does he really think he can enter the picture sixteen years later without any hard feelings? After all, if he really cared, he would have contacted her earlier. Even though Howard tries to make Lina feel comfortable, Lina simply can’t accept him back into her life so quickly. Under different circumstances, Lina would immediately fall in love with Italy’s shimmering waters, quaint villages, and captivating artwork, but she’s only there to satisfy her mother’s dying wish for her to meet her long-lost father, Howard. In Love & Gelato, the stage is set in Tuscany, Italy, where seventeen-year-old Lina Emerson is on a visit.
Maybe my pediatrician wasn’t ever going to recommend I eat gelato left and right, but this book was exactly what the doctor ordered. Would it really live up to the hype? In the end, I decided to borrow the novel from my local library just for laughs. But that’s when my friends began to pelt me with book recommendations, a primary one being this book.
Next to the plethora of suspenseful dystopian and fantasy novels I had yet to read, Love & Gelato didn’t seem like it would be worth my time. For the longest time, I left Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch on my to-read shelf like an ice cream cone in the summer sun.
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