Cute & cozy!

Thank you Netgalley and Josie Silver for the opportunity to read this ARC!
What a beautiful and cozy story, set in New York for the perfect winter read.
It feels like a Hallmark movie in the best way.
The main characters are impossible to not fall in love with and the history within the plot keeps you reading for more!

This book started out with the best meet-disaster AND was full of vanilla gelato. What else could you possibly need?

Iris sets off to New York to escape an abusive relationship and start over in the city that her mother, who died of cancer, loved and wrote about in her journal. While out at an Italian festival with her friend and boss, Bobby, she passes a door that seems familiar. She realizes it's the door in a photo of a man that her mother kept along with her gelato recipe. The gelato recipe that's brought comfort to Iris throughout her life. Determined to figure out the connection between her mother, the door and the man, Iris heads back to, what turns out to be Belotti's Gelateria. There she meets Gio and her whole life flips upside down.

Gio and his family are scrambling to recreate their famous vanilla gelato recipe after the only person who knows it, his uncle/father figure Santo, has a stroke and is in a coma. If they cannot recreate it and Santo never wakes, it's the end of the Belotti legacy. Iris soon realizes that her mother's recipe is actually the Bellotti's recipe and if she reveals that she has it, it will cause chaos within Gio's family so instead, she offers to help him recreate the recipe.

The more she works with Gio and his family to lead them to the recipe, the more she falls for them all. While piecing together the connection between Gio, his family and her mother Iris struggles with the lies she's told and the secrets she's keeping and prepares to run. Breaking her own heart to save the Belotti family legacy is a chance she'll have to take.

I enjoyed the way that the past collided with the present in this sweet story that reads more women's fiction than pure romance. The angst of when and how Iris's secrets will be revealed kept me on my toes. The growth that we see in Iris along with the strength of Gio's character and the love that flows through the Belotti family, this made for a great winter read.

Grab a blanket and a hot drink and curl up to read this sweet story today!

*I received an ARC from NetGalley for voluntary/honest review

I absolutely adored everything about this Little Italy love story. Maybe the familiarity of the setting just felt comforting to me, but after a few weeks of feeling slumpy in my reading, this one pulled me out of my funk and made me feel excited about reading again.

Iris is a chef from London, who ran away to New York City to escape an emotionally abusive relationship, and also to relive her musician mother's happiest moments now that she has passed. On Valentine's Day, she decides to treat herself to a new book, but ends up getting into an altercation with the man who reaches for the last copy just seconds before her. Several months later, she is visiting the San Gennaro festival in Little Italy with her boss and landlord, Bobby, and sees the magical looking painted door of Bellotti's Gelatoria, a landmark that figured prominently in her mother's scrapbook. She discovers that the man behind the counter, Gio, is none other than the man from the book store, and that her mother's special recipe for gelato is the same as their closely guarded family recipe. Past and present collide, and their relationship grows despite being predicated on several lies. I loved all the rich side characters in this story, Gio's big, boisterous Italian family, and Iris's protective "big brother" figures in Bobby and his husband Robin. I felt Iris's emotional struggle as she wanted to do the right thing and come clean to Gio about her true identity and how she fits into his family history, while also protecting their feelings and honoring her mother's request. New York City is also the star of the show, with its Little Italy and adjacent Chinatown setting featuring prominently, though as a native NY-er I was slightly confused by the references to Iris wearing knit scarves and hats and the cold weather in parts of the story that were supposed to take place in September and October (definitely still warm here then 😅). I also wouldn't call this one a holiday rom-com, but more a family drama with romantic elements that happens to take in the months leading up to the holiday season.

AMAZING! This book felt like a warm hug! Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for another wonderful winner by one of my favorite authors Josie Silver!
The book centers on chef Iris who moves to New York for a fresh start. While she's at street fair in Little Italy she tries a gelato that tastes exactly like here. The family shop, which a connection to her mother is endangered of closing and handsome Gio, who helps with the family business says they are in desperate need for the recipe to the gelato. Without giving too much away Iris finds herself falling for Gio and the family and is thrown into a dilemma of what to do.
The book was pure cozy. It's the perfect read for the holidays and winter. It brought me so much needed joy. I can't recommend this charming book enough!

I wanted to love this!! But 25% in I was still feeling like the pacing was far too slow and the characters not developing/real. I’m still planning to try Josie Silver’s “One Day in December.”

I loved this book!! It made me went to set up my Christmas tree while indulging in a big bucket of vanilla gelato! I loved everything about this book!! I highly recommend!!!!

This was good, but also a much heavier read than I was expecting.

Don’t be fooled by the cute RomCom style cover. Though the book has plenty of moments of levity and holiday cheer, it deals with a lot of heavier subject matter, particularly emotional abuse and stalking.

I would have preferred a lighter touch and more focus on the holiday festivities, though I did think Silver did a good job of handling some tougher themes. I’m generally not huge on the tragic backstory in holiday romances, but at least this one doesn’t leave you feeling jerked around.

I really enjoyed the found family aspects of this and it has good holiday atmosphere. And Silver has given us a terrific heroine and a central relationship that is easy to root for.

a winter in new york was sweet and filled with nostalgia as you weave through iris and goo’s complicated love story. this book took my awhile to get into and i definitely found that it dragged in places but it was all in all a sugary sweet romance

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for the ARC of A Winter in New York by Josie Silver. This is my second Josie Silver book and certainly won't be my last. I found the initial plot set up to be a bit far fetched and frustrating. I've also figured out that I really don't like miscommunication troupes. However the book grew on me and I loved it by the end. The side characters are also fantastic and I adored the found family aspect. I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for a light Christmas romance that has some deeper themes.

This is a really sweet romance with an interesting subplot. Iris moves to NYC to get a fresh start while fleeing a toxic relationship. She stumbles upon Gio and his family’s gelateria. But it turns out that her mom has a history with Gio’s uncle and Iris accidentally finds herself caught up in an increasingly larger web of lies.

I will say that a major plot driver here is miscommunication which I usually don’t like. But I actually think it works in this book better than most because of the complicated backstory. The author manages to make everything fit together in the end. I think she wrote two good characters here. They are flawed but we want to root for them!

This wasn’t my favorite of Josie Silver’s books but I really enjoyed it. She is an absolute auto-buy for me.

4.5⭐️

Iris, a trained chef, fled London and a painful past for New York City, the place her late mother’s music dreams began. She’s hoping that by visiting her mum’s old haunts, she’ll find her own happily ever after.

Gio is a strait laced, by the book guy who’s tasked with keeping his family’s gelateria open after his uncle (the only person who knows the recipe) falls ill.

Fate, and family secrets, brings Iris and Gio together but can they overcome all the obstacles they face to find the love they both deserve?

I have enjoyed most of Josie Silver’s books and I absolutely LOVED this A Winter in New York. The MCs are solid and grounded with a supporting cast that are so sweet and charming. There is so much heart and love and grace in these pages and I literally couldn’t stop reading.

I loved:
The slow burn between Iris and Gio
Iris wanting to honor her mother’s secret
The entire Belotti family
Gio’s desire to uphold tradition
Bobby and Robin’s acceptance of Iris into their lives and their unwavering friendship
Iris coming into her own and taking control of her path forward

My issues:
The stubbornness of both Iris and Gio. Her for not sharing her past earlier and him for shutting others down when they’re trying to help.

Trigger Warnings:
Death of a parent
Emotionally abusive partner

Thank you NetGalley and Random House-Ballantine for the advance copy.

3.5⭐. This is my first Josie Silver book and I must say I did really enjoy it. I love the NYC setting so much, especially around the holidays. Iris moves from London to NYC after ending an emotionally abusive relationship and losing her mom. Her mother always loved NY and even fell in love there, so Iris felt like she could start fresh at the place her mother loved. Iris stumbles upon the one gelateria shop that was in one of her mother's photos. She then realizes that this could be the place her mother got the secret gelato recipe from so long ago. She meets the super handsome Gio who tells her they may be in jeopardy of closing because his uncle, who's the only one that knows the recipe, is now in a coma. She knows after tasting it that she has the recipe, but how did her mother end up knowing this secret recipe anyway?! She commits to helping Gio, his family, and the shop with creating the popular flavor. Along the way, she starts falling for Gio. This book was heartwarming and romantic and it was a really nice change of pace. A very cute read!

Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for the gifted copy. All opinions are my own.

4 stars!

"A Winter in New York" is the first Josie Silver novel I've read. I definitely need to go back and check out her other books because this one is terrific. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me reminisce, it made me happy, it made me want vanilla gelato really, really badly! "A Winter in New York" will have you wanting to drop everything in your life to see the snow falling on the streets of Big Apple. Silver paints such an evocative picture of NYC in winter! This book will leave found-family fans eating good for nearly 400 pages. I loved this aspect of the story; it's really heartwarming and perfect for the Christmas season. I really enjoyed the main characters, Iris and Gio. Iris and Gio are both fully-fleshed-out, realistic-feeling characters. Iris is on her own, living in New York with a roommate because her mom came to New York on a wing and a prayer years before, and she wanted to follow in her footsteps. I love that Gio is a pure-hearted, soft-spoken guy. He has a big family, each one more boisterous and wonderful than the last. Still, both Gio and Iris have difficult, complicated relationships with their biological families, which adds to the tension and intrigue. There is also a terrific cast of supporting characters here as well. As the story moved along, I found myself holding my breath waiting for the other shoe to drop, for Iris's secret to be revealed. Some readers won't like this slow-burning aspect of the story, but it sustained me and made me read quicker, propelling me quicker towards the inevitable ending. I literally could not put this book down. It reads very fast and is addicting to boot. I highly recommend it!

Thank you to NetGalley, Josie Silver, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, and Dell for the complimentary ARC of this book. All opinions are my own. I was not compensated for this review.

Heartfelt cozy read that also has some great plot intrigue! A perfect book to grab for the upcoming colder months!

This is a script perfect for the Hallmark channel! It’s an easy read with great family dynamics and connectedness, a little bit of insta-love, some drama that’s stems from the past, and likable main characters.

Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review. 3.5 stars rounded up to 4!

I really want some vanilla gelato right now. 🙈

This story with Iris was so wonderful and emotional. She had so much growth as a character after essentially running away from and ex and finding herself hiding secrets from a person she’s falling in love with.

This book is the perfect, Christmas romance novel — full of love, emotions, and two people learning how to be the best versions of themselves. 🥹💗

I love any book that is set in the winter, or has something to do with Christmas. Well this book is in that category. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

This one got me in all my feels!

✔️One of the MCs is a chef. I’m always a sucker for stories that involve cooking/food and the ties it has to our memories & lives.
✔️Stellar supporting cast!
✔️ Romance, duh! ♥️
✔️ Family - sometimes the ones you create are even stronger than the ones you’re born into!

I enjoyed the premise of this book and the writing, as well. I was a bit thrown off by the title because I feel like it had little to do with the plot of the book.

What a perfect holiday/winter book! I always enjoy Josie Silver books, and this one did not disappoint at all. Cute characters, beautiful setting and descriptions. What a fun premise - gelato can never be a bad theme. I didn't want to put the book down, and was sad when it ended. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a digital ARC of this book.