Etikett: Jenna Evans Welch

Love & Gelato av Jenna Evans Welch

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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 sixteen 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 ever herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.

Det tog ett ganska bra tag innan jag fastnade i den här boken men när jag väl gjorde det var det svårt att sluta läsa. Jag ville ha mer sommar, mer romantik och mer Italien och dess miljöer. För en rundtur i Toscana fick vi allt och jag blev än mer sugen på att resa till Italien kan jag meddela.

Jag hade dock ingen riktig förståelse för Linas mamma och varför hon höll allt så hemligt. Jag hade hellre sett öppna kort än så himla mycket funderande och velande. Jag tyckte om att de på något vis kommunicerade genom dagboken och tanken att Lina skulle uppleva Toscana som hon hade upplevt det men i fallet vem som var hennes pappa, varför saker och ting hade hänt hade jag hellre sett att hon hade fått veta allt direkt. Om det skulle vara något slags skydd kändes det bara löjligt.

Man förstod givetvis ganska snabbt att saker skulle hända mellan Lina och Ren, samt att Lina skulle ändra uppfattning om resan, livet och hennes mammas liv men jag tyckte inte det störde. Det kändes lättsamt och boken flöt på bra när man väl fastnade i den. Nu när jag tänker tillbaka på den känner jag bara mys, semester, sommar och kärlek.

Mitt betyg: 4/5

Författare: Jenna Evans Welch
Utgivningsår: 2016
Förlag: Simon Pulse
Utläst: 26 augusti 2017
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En smakebit på søndag – Love & Gelato

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Den norska bokbloggaren “Flukten fra virkeligheten” har varje söndag en rolig liten utmaning där man ska skriva ner en liten smakbit av boken man läser för tillfället. Jag läser just nu bland annat Love & Gelato av Jenna Evans Welch.

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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 sixteen 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 ever herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.

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”No way,” I whispered to myself. What were the chances that I’d read this entry on the day I’d seen the Duomo for the first time? I ran my fingers over the words, imagining my twenty-something-year-old mom running to keep up with tyrannical, springy Francesca. Was this part of the reason my mom had sent her journal? So we could experience Florence together?
I marked my place and switched off the light, my chest heavy. Yes, hearing her voice was the emotional equivalent of a damaged ship taking on water. But it felt good, too. She’d loved Florence. Maybe reading her journal would be like seeing it with her.
I’d just have to take it in small doses.