Sep 26, 2023
"THE LUMBERJACK & THE GARDENER" feripozine #15
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"THE LUMBERJACK & THE GARDENER" feripozine #15
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Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
I found this book to be incredibly refreshing and exactly what my soul needed. I shall explain in the next paragraphs.
I started this book this morning when I went to the library with my boyfriend, I knew that I would adore this book as soon as I had finished the first chapter. It was one of those books that just grabs you by the ears and doesn’t let you go until you finish reading it.
Of course, the way the novel starts is with the death of the main character’s mother. That doesn’t really surprise me, since most young adult books start with some form of tragedy.
Carolina, otherwise known as Lina, had to go through the loss of her mother very quickly, something that haunts her as she continues her life and grieving process.
She is sent to Italy where she mets her father, Howard, who wants her to stay with him in the country and watch her grow for the rest of her life. She, on the other hand, is not sold on the idea, having just found out that he is her father.
I really liked Lina, she was an incredibly complex, yet relatable character. She was lovable, even at her worst she did her best to make her mother proud. She was a courageous seventeen year-old who didn’t really care about anything but finding out what her mother had actually done before her birth.
I could easily describe her as stubborn and impulsive, she demonstated this quite easily when she took Ren to Rome to find out the truth about certain aspects of her mother’s past. She was also very emotional, not that it wasn’t expected after what she had been through. To be honest, she was a character I could understand.
The moment when she goes to Space, a club in Florence, with her friends and she is sexually assaulted by a man who is at least 15 years older than her I found hit close to home. She didn’t really know exactly what to do and what to say. She felt incredibly objectified and disgusted. How could she honestly react? She left the club with Ren and Thomas and she started crying, something I probably would’ve done. The fact that Ren had seemed so ready to go and “fight for her honour” was hilarious, yet at the same time a sure sign that he had truly fallen for her.
I loved the fact that this book was a complete story about being a misfit and new in a place that you have no true ties to. Lina was an incredibly adaptable girl who had no time making new friends, and yet she didn’t lose touch with the ones she cared most about before she had gone. The way Lina didn’t understand the language in which everyone spoke or the culture that surrounded her felt rather familiar, something that everyone feels at least once in their life.
She was a lost girl who didn’t really know what was happening around her, so she decided to find out the truth by her own means. Surely enough, she didn’t make the best decisions, seeing as she is an immature and impulsive teenager, but she never wanted to hurt anyone, a trait admirable on its own. She tried to save Horward from feeling bad about himself because of the situation at hand and multiple other reasons that she didn’t want revealed.
She does end up falling in love, as I predicted, with Ren. Their relationship just seemed to flow naturally, nothing was forced by external sources. I found their friendship at the beginning to be so pure and cute that I wished I could be in her place for just one moment. They were both shy and didn’t exactly know how to react based on their emotions, as all teenagers do. It was funny to see them become more and more awkward as their friendship progressed. It was a mutually beneficial relationship where she loved him and he loved her, no conditions were applied.
I think Lina takes her mother and Howard’s example as how two people should fall in love and how it should be in the end. Although the scene where Lina asks Howard how she could get over Ren and he says that she didn’t ask the right person because he fell in love once and has never truly gotten over it truly got to me. It was both funny, but it was also interesting that the dynamic of the relationship between Howard and Lina had changed completely.
Ren was an incredible character who somehow knew what to say and when to say it. He always seemed like an outsider, and yet when he finally admitted that by explaining how he feels too American in Italy and too Italian in America it was as if he had shown who he truly was. He wasn’t the best at communicating with the girl he liked, but neither was she. He was just as adventurous and as stubborn as Lina. They both didn’t know how to express their emotions, but I think that Ren was a bit worse at that.
The setting of this novel is absolutely incredible. The descriptions are phenomenal and they outline a cemetery with the same beauty as the rooftops of Florence. The whole Italian landscape was perfect for the book and it tied in very neatly with the story, not leaving out any loose ends or giving you the feeling that it shouldn’t have taken place there.
To conclude, I think this is one of the most heartwarming books I’ve read recently and I’m so glad I finished it all in one day. I loved this book and I’m so glad I found it in the library.
[I borrowed this book from Biblioteca Judeteana Cluj-Napoca, sectia de adolescenti]
Eres como ese libro que comienzas hojeando sin querer y que lees una parte y te parece interesante a si que decides comenzar desde el principio y entre más lees más te emocionas y más quieres seguir leyendo 💕
~GR~