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In Review: Love & Gelato - Miss Known
* This post might contain affiliated links. To know more visit my Disclaimer page. Author: Jenna Evans Welch Publisher: Simon Pulse Year: 2016 Pages: 389 Lina’s mother is dying. Her last wish was for Lina move to Florence and live with her father. The strange part is Lina never knew who her father was for 16 years. But moving to a foreign country can be awful. Lina just wants to go back to the United States until she’s giving her mother’s journal from when she stayed in Italy. Now in front of her are all the answers she wants and all the secrets kept for too long. If you are looking for a quick, fluffy and cute YA story, this is your book. Perfect for a summer reading or a detox book, when you just want to chill and don’t be overwhelmed with emotions. It has enough drama, mystery, and unpredictability within the predictability. I mean, the book is predictable when it comes to the story of her mother but unpredictable when it comes to Lina’s life. When I first read the synopsis, I didn’t believe her mother would have such big secret. I thought it would be something simple and with nothing to fuss about – don’t know why but for me Lina was going to over reacting. Although, it got me by surprise. I kept saying to myself it wasn’t like that, in the end, the author would invent a twist. Unfortunately, I predicted the worse and I couldn’t believe her mother was saving such secret. Despite, some down notes – I’ll discuss in the spoilery section below – when I close the book I was smiling from ear to ear. In that moment I knew this was a book to reread, even if this review sounds bad. What can I say… I enjoyed this book so much that I find some little details that bothered me and needed to be different. My favorite part was all the places Lina went. In that moment, I wished to buy the next plane ticket to Florence, so I can see with my own eyes every single place Lina and Hadley went. In the mean time, if I got back full of Love and Gelato I wouldn’t mind. I need to know if the gelato is that amazing and life changing. Also, who goes to Italy and...
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