3 out of 5 stars
Love & Gelato was sweet but lacked substance and left you wanting something solid afterwards. How's that for a metaphor? ;) Okay, but really...this was a decent book, I wanted a bit more out of it, and desperately wanted gelato in Italy while reading it. So prepare accordingly. Trust me!
The book centers on 16 year old Lina, who has just lost her mom to cancer a few months prior. Her mom's last wish was for Lina to go to Italy and get to know her father, the amazingly sweet and tall Howard. She's not too thrilled about it, especially when she finds out he lives and works in a graveyard. Of course, the cute boy down the road makes it all better right? Right.
The love story is light and fluffy, but I didn't really care about it too much. Honestly, Anna & The French Kiss is a far superior "American in a foreign country" love story. Lina's relationship with Howard and her journey thru her mom's old journal are the real interesting parts. And of course, the touristy and eating bits. Those were drool-worthy descriptions.
It was like walking through a scene from an Italian movie.
The street was lined with clothing stores and little coffee shops and
restaurants, and people kept calling to one another from windows and cars.
Halfway down the street a horn beeped politely and everyone cleared out of the
street to make way for an entire family crowded onto a scooter. There was even
a string of laundry hanging between two buildings, a billowy red housedress
flapping right in the middle of it. Any second now a director was going to jump
out and yell, Cut!
“So... Italian gelato. Take the deliciousness of a regular
ice-cream cone,
times it by a million, then sprinkle it with crushed-up unicorn
horns.”
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