Love & Gelato

Author: Jenna Evans Welch

Genre: Teen Fiction

Publisher: Simon Pulse, 2016

Pages: 400

Rating: Recommend

Synopsis: A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this New York Times bestselling debut novel filled with romance, mystery, and adventure.

Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.

But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. 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 for far too long. It’s a secret that will change everything Lina knew about her mother, her father—and even herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.

Review: The synopsis makes this novel sound like it has more depth than it does, but it's still a super-cute story. This was a one-day read for me and I enjoyed every page.

It's teen fiction and was a finalist for the GoodReads Choice Awards, which is why I added it to my list. This is definitely worth reading.