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Summary

Love You a Latke is a lovely holiday romance filled with plenty of Hanukkah and Christmas festivities set in a small Vermont town and bustling New York City. A grudging friendship turns into more when Abby and Seth show their true selves to each other. Grab a coffee or other warm drink and sit by a toasty fire with a good book and maybe even someone you love.

4.5-STAR REVIEW: LOVE YOU A LATKE by Amanda Elliot

The Description

Publication Date: October 8, 2024

Love comes home for the challah-days in this sparkling romance.

Snow is falling, holiday lights are twinkling, and Abby Cohen is pissed. For one thing, her most annoying customer, Seth, has been coming into her café every morning with his sunshiny attitude, determined to break down her carefully constructed emotional walls. And, as the only Jew on the tourism board of her Vermont town, Abby’s been charged with planning their fledgling Hanukkah festival. Unfortunately, the local vendors don’t understand that the story of Hanukkah cannot be told with light-up plastic figures from the Nativity scene, even if the Three Wise Men wear yarmulkes.

Desperate for support, Abby puts out a call for help online and discovers she was wrong about being the only Jew within a hundred miles. There’s one other: Seth.

As it turns out, Seth’s parents have been badgering him to bring a Nice Jewish Girlfriend home to New York City for Hanukkah, and if Abby can survive his incessant, irritatingly handsome smiles, he’ll introduce her to all the vendors she needs to make the festival a success. But over latkes, doughnuts, and winter adventures in Manhattan, Abby begins to realize that her fake boyfriend and his family might just be igniting a flame in her own guarded heart.

The Review

Love You a Latke by Amanda Elliot is a wonderful holiday contemporary romance about Hanukkah. It’s about how Christmas overshadows Hanukkah, how it’s a relatively minor holiday, and how Jewish people find happiness if their holidays or traditions are recognized or acknowledged. But woven throughout is a sweet romance.

The book focuses on Abby and Seth, begins in Vermont, moves to New York City for only eight days, and then returns to Vermont and the Hanukkah Festival, which Abby singularly organizes and showcases all things Hanukkah.

I love how Abby and Seth grow both individually and together as they finally move to being friends and then become more. They craft a small support network and find their way to each other instead of constantly pushing each other away. They learn they have much to offer each other and can accomplish and achieve more with each other’s help. Abby’s eyes are opened to what being a part of a family, a community, and even making friends is like.

The story has a good flow, and many stories are woven together. I liked Seth’s friends’ group and how they had fun in so many different ways and included Abby seamlessly just because she was with Seth. There is closure, but there are still some loose ends. The epilogue was a nice addition, as were the thought-provoking discussion questions.

Love You a Latke is a lovely holiday romance filled with plenty of Hanukkah and Christmas festivities set in a small Vermont town and bustling New York City. A grudging friendship turns into more when Abby and Seth show their true selves to each other. Grab a coffee or other warm drink and sit by a toasty fire with a good book and maybe even someone you love.Buy Links

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About The AuthorAmanda Elliot lives with her husband and daughter in New York City, where she collects way too many cookbooks for her tiny kitchen, runs in Central Park, and writes for teens and kids under the name Amanda Panitch.

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JoAnne Weiss, nee Montalbano, was born and raised in NYC until moving to CT with her family when she was 16 and she's never left. Married for 43 years with one grown son, she works in an elementary school office where she's been since it opened in 2003. Prior to that, she was an accountant in several corporations before becoming a stay at home mom for 12 years. JoAnne enjoys reading, traveling, spending time with her family, and extended family as well as with friends. She enjoys cooking and rarely uses a recipe the way it was intended but instead uses them and cooking shows to give her new ideas and suggestions. JoAnne has a huge bucket list of places she'd like to visit but has been lucky enough to travel to England, Italy, the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, and many states in the U.S. including Hawaii, California, Nevada, Arizona, and Maine among others. Some of JoAnne's favorite genres include contemporary romance, chick-lit, romantic suspense, and historical romances including regency and those set in the west. JoAnne is on several author's street teams and enjoys interacting with many of them on Facebook as well as reading their newsletters. She has been lucky enough to meet some of her favorite authors among them Susan Mallery, Debbie Macomber, Nora Roberts, Meg Tilly, Beatriz Williams, and Marie Bostwick. JoAnne took a road trip with her sister in the fall of 2019 and visited Nora Roberts' bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland for an authors' signing. She hopes to do more of this in the future. JoAnne leaves reviews for all books she reads on Goodreads and her reviews can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5001736?ref=nav_mybooks JoAnne currently reviews for - NovelsAlive.com. Previously she reviewed for Romancing-the-Book.com and RomanceJunkies.com both of which have since closed. Payment is in the form of receiving free books to read and review. Her mantra is too many books and not enough time!

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Love You a Latke is a lovely holiday romance filled with plenty of Hanukkah and Christmas festivities set in a small Vermont town and bustling New York City. A grudging friendship turns into more when Abby and Seth show their true selves to each other. Grab a coffee or other warm drink and sit by a toasty fire with a good book and maybe even someone you love.4.5-STAR REVIEW: LOVE YOU A LATKE by Amanda Elliot