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Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch

18 reviews

lavenderbluestories's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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ittywitty's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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blessednacho's review against another edition

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hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

I loved this book! It was super interesting and the characters were great. However, there were a couple things I did not like. For example, the main character has a crush on another character while still having a boyfriend and worrying that he is cheating on her. I also never truly understood the power of show-not-tell until this book.
In this book, one of the characters just says that they were struggling with the stigmatization of mental illness, and it felt corny and cheap.
Overall, I thought this was a great book. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a summer read set in Greece with a little bit of depth to it.
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princessrory's review against another edition

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emotional relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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sefrahudman's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Ahhhh! This book was so cute and felt so REAL!! Not only did it entertain me, make me feel so many of the feels and also deepen my desire to go to Greece, it made me smile and really think about life! Such a cute read! And you do t need to read the first two books before this one! 
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_mya_'s review against another edition

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adventurous funny hopeful reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

never a boring moment. 
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greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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shannasbooksnhooks's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

"No matter what happened, I'd keep searching until every piece had been found. Olive had always been good at that."
It feels like this book took me longer than it should have to read. I know it took only around 5 days (Aug. 3-8), but it felt like a long time. I feel like it's mostly due to the fact that I breezed through my 6 most recent reads - Carly Spade's Contemporary Mothos series - within a 5-6 day period.
But I really enjoyed this book. It was a sweet read. Honestly, I feel like the story encompassed many a child's dreams (inner child's dreams as well). Indiana Jones was one of my major film crushes as a child. This was another fantastic coming-of-age story from Jenna Evans Welch, and I felt like it was a great ending to the Love & series. I was half expecting to see Lina and/or Addie - or other supporting characters - from Love & Gelato and Love & Luck. I wasn't disappointed not seeing any of them, but, if I'm honest, it was still a bit of a letdown. I think Olive, "Liv," went through so much emotional turmoil in this book, and it was so well-represented.
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casandra_lovealwaysbooks's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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charizaaard's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted sad

3.5

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