A review by blessednacho
Love and Olives by Jenna Evans Welch

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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