Love and Olives by Jenna Evans Welch
Having read both Love and Gelato and Love and Luck by this author, I thought this would be connected to those two novels, but it wasn't. This is totally ok though because it was a great stand-alone read. I actually finished it a week and a half ago, but am just now finding time to talk about it.
Olive, or Liv, as she prefers to be called, is just finishing her junior year of high school. Her boyfriend is about to head to college and he wants her to tour and apply to the same college he is going to attend. Liv, however, has her heart set on RISD, or the Rhode Island School of Design, and she doesn't know how to tell him this. She figures she has the summer to do so, but then receives a postcard from her father, whom she hasn't seen since she was eight years old.
When he left, there were 26 things that Liv's father left behind. Each chapter describes the item. Needless to say, the absence of her father has left an indelible mark on Liv, so when she gets the postcard, she doesn't really know what to do. Doesn't matter anyway, as it turns out, as Liv's mother sends her to Santorini, Greece to spend some time with her dad.
Liv's dad is preoccupied with Atlantis and believes that it is near Santorini. Liv is enlisted to help shoot a documentary for National Geographic with her dad and Theo, the son of her dad's close friend. Over the course of time, despite the fact that Liv doesn't buy into the Atlantis myth, she finds what has drawn her father to it. She also gets to be pretty close to Theo, and that isn't a bad thing.
I enjoyed this read and didn't want to put it down. I sincerely hope this author continues to write because I would definitely read her books.
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