Love & Gelato is the debut novel of Jenna Evans Welch. It takes place in Italy and follows a girl, Lina (Carolina), who must figure out why her mom sent her to live with her father that she hasn't known for 16 years. It holds love, mystery, and a feel good story.
This book gets major points for being set in Italy. The author actually spent her high school years in Italy and you can definitely tell. The detail is phenomenal and you really feel like you are in the country also. That's about all I felt went well with this book. The setting brought this book together but the characters made this book fall apart.
The main character was dry. She had no substance or personality about her, and she mainly focused on herself and why would her mom do this to her and all that teenage angst. Ren was annoying and moody towards the end of the book only to end up with the main character (insta-love happens). The only interesting person was the mom and her journal entries and even then at times I didn't love it. I knew her dad wasn't Howard once he was introduced and Lina had an idea, but she spent the whole book trying to make sure it wasn't him. A good part of this book wasn't necessary.
In all honesty, that's what this whole book is about. Lina trying to figure out who her dad is and falling in love with Ren. That's the mystery of this whole book so it's kind of hard to say much else about it. If you love Italy or books about Italy, I definitely recommend checking this book out even if it's just for the setting.
3/5 Stars.
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