Book Review - In Italy For Love by Leonie Mack - #HolidayReading Gambia

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Title: In Italy For Love

Author: Leonie Mack

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Boldwood Books

Publication Date: 22nd October 2024

Rating: 5 Stars

Live your very own Italian dream and let bestseller Leonie Mack whisk you away.

Julia Volpe’s Italian dream has turned into a nightmare.

Still living with her ex, Luca, a year after they’ve broken up, desperate to sell the dilapidated B&B that was meant to be their future, Jules knows she needs to leave. There are just two problems. Her passport has expired and she’s broke.

Not quite ready to ask her parents for help – at the ripe old age of twenty-seven – Jules decides to head as far away from Luca as she can to work on an olive farm until she has enough money to pay for her passport and a ticket back home.

Jules has sworn off love, but she hadn’t bargained on the beauty of Cividale del Friuli, the ancient Italian town on the banks of the gloriously blue Natisone river. As the community of farmers, neighbours and locals generously welcome her into their lives, Jules can feel her defences crumbling. But it’s when she meets Alex, broodingly handsome yet charmingly gallant, that Jules truly knows she’s in trouble. Because Alex has sworn off love too, and his reasons run deep enough for him to keep his word just as Jules is starting to reconsider her resistance to romance.

Romantic, spell-binding, truly touching and perfect for all fans of Jill Mansell, Mandy Baggot and Sarah Morgan.

What a charming and escapist read this was. 

I was enchanted by the small corner of Italy that Jules has run to to lick her wounds and wait for her passport to arrive. 

It is a small town on the border of multiple countries, and has a really close knit community, one that at times Alex really despairs of. 

What is meant to be a one night stand, after circumstances and would be matchmakers took over, turns into something more. But neither are looking for love. 

I really felt for Jules and Alex at times, while also being fascinated with various details about accordions. 

I felt completely transported and could definitely see everything play out,  Another incredibly enjoyable book from Leonie Mack. 

Thank you to Boldwood Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.