They don’t have the same cast of characters.I was bitten by the gelato bug about ten years ago and have been making gelato ever since, both professionally, and more recently, at home. I can’t wait to see what those are about one is in Ireland and the other in Greece. This is definitely a clean romance that teens can read. There is two more books in this “series” and I have both of them in my to be read piles. She learned about her mother and the life she had before she had her. She started out one way and finished another. I loved the way that Lina grew as the book went on. There was teen romance and secretive relationships. The message that the author also wrote about what the you don’t have to be a biological parent in order to care for and parent someone. It is something that maybe a teen who is reading the book could relate too. I thought the author wrote about grief in a very relatable way especially for a teenager. Having been there I could see the things that she was describing as I read them. I enjoyed the entire thing and it kept me engaged the whole time.

While there she learns more about her Mom then she ever knew possible. Lina goes to live with her Dad who she didn’t know existed in Italy. All that changed when her mother died of pancreatic cancer when Lina was still in high school. Then I discovered that it was available for free from Kindle Unlimited….why I didn’t check there in the first place I will never know but oh well. It’s a place that I could visit over and over and never tire of it. I have always had a huge soft spot for Italy. I knew that I had to buy it because it took place in Italy. I originally found this book on Thriftbooks. 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 her, 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. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is go back home.īut then she is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. 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.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

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