With the descriptions in Lina’s mother’s journal, the author takes us around the beautiful & breathtaking sights around Italy. He is always there with her on her quests to explore Italy following the entries made in her mother’s journal. I mean who wouldn’t want to be in love with that. A sweet, charming, generous and honest ” I am always there” kind of a boy who supports and encourages Lina, is the heart of the story. Now, Ren is the character I love the most in the novel. During her search for answers, Lina meets a young boy, Ren, living next door and befriends him. “I made the wrong choice.” The first line of her mother’s journal makes Lina want to understand what really happened and how everything came to be what it is now. Struggling through her mother’s death, she is handed over her mother’s journal for when she studied photography in Florence. As promised to her dying mother, Lina arrives in Italy only to find out that she would be living in a cemetery. The story is about a sixteen-year-old Lina who sets on a journey to Italy to spend the summers getting to know her father, Howard. It is filled with love, romance, friendship, mystery, and adventure. Set amidst the beautiful landscapes of Italy, Love & Gelato is the debut novel by Jenna Evans Welch. ‘‘You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they stay, it’s for the same two things.’’
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