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Love & Gelato

By: Jenna Evans Welch
Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross
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A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping 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 16 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 from Lina for far too long. It's a secret that will change everything she 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.

©2016 Jenna Evans Welch (P)2016 Simon & Schuster
Clean & Wholesome Family Multicultural Romance Young Adult Italy Feel-Good Summer Heartfelt
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Great Teen Book

Listen to this with my 14 yr old daughter on a road trip. Great fun!

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Great....but

Good storyline, fast paced and kept me entertained. But would have loved a better ending

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I love this book but…

This is the only book that is I’m my library that does this is will randomly pause and sometimes won’t unpause when I click the unpause button it will change the icon to playing then change back to the paused icon and the book will not continue even for a second the only way I can fix this is to archive the book and re-download it witch I have had to do multiple times.

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Nothing Like The Movie

So, I suppose Netflix tried to produce a movie that displayed the enchantment of Italy with a coming of age story about a young woman discovering her beginnings with an estranged father that is cryptically referred to as “X” only to find him a complete asshole. This book is also similar in the basic story but the procrastinator is quite a bit younger and true love is elusive as it’s being told by the girl’s deceased mother through a journal left to her when she arrives in Italy. The book basis the story in Florence unlike the Rome setting in the movie. Both stories are enchanting. If you are a young teenager you will enjoy the introspective mind-speak sans the social media which the movie uses a lot of to move the story along. I enjoyed both but don’t read the book expecting it to be a mirror of the movie.

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Great story

This is a very nice feel good story that makes you want to travel to Florence & eat gelato!

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AMAZING

This book was one of my all time favorites!💗 I would definitely recommend to all my friends! 💗🍨

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The plot twists and love story

I LOVE THIS BOOK SOOOOO MUCH AND I CANT WAIT TO READ OTHER BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR

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Cute and light love story with a nice twist!

Cute and light love story with a nice twist! Enjoyed escaping to Italy for the setting of this novel!

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Love & Gelato

This was a nice summer listen and different from the usual books I like. (I’m into mystery and fantasy books) I have lots of friends who enjoy romance books so I thought I’d give this one a try. (Also the cover is super cute) This was fun to listen to. I haven’t found a good Italian romance story until this one. The beginning is sad but it does get better. I know the mom passed away but I thought she passed away before the book started.

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SUCH AN AMAZING BOOK

I have to do summer reading at my school and when I realized I only had a few days left Audible defiantly came to my rescue!!!! This book is amazing but I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone under the age of 10. Thanks audible!!!!

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