Thirteenth book of 2020
Reading period: Feb 21st 2020 – Mar 02nd 2020
Summary
“I made the wrong choice.”
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 go back home.
But then she 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 her, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept 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.
Rating
Review
I like to read this book. Maybe it is because I wasn’t waiting for anything about the story so I just went with it. I think it’s a book that you can read between books or if you want to have a quick read. So for me, it was not THE book of the year, but it was not a bad book.
Some aspects of the novel make me flinch a) the fact that most of the time the Italian sentences aren’t translated, and even for a French person it can sometimes be difficult; b) for me, two characters were utterly useless. For these characters, I understand what the author wanted to do; however, the timeline of the story was too short, so it makes them look like an attempt to create disruption.
Overall, it is good chick-lit fiction. I’m not against the idea to read the other two books that the author wrote, just not right away.
Liz.
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