What begins strong, bogs down with repetition in the middle, then finishes with tears and laughter.

I’m not usually a romance reader, but there is something about Josie Silver’s books that has me waiting in anticipation of her new releases. My practical side has me typically talking to the book, but I always hold on, knowing that there will be something around the next corner that will draw me back in and make her moments resonate with truth and beauty.

If you aren’t a regular romance reader, Josie Silver just might open you up to the genre and a different way of looking at the sweetness in life.

I tried to read this book but found I couldn’t get into it and decided to DNF around 25%. I loved her book One Day in December and was so excited to read this one, but I think it just wasn’t for me. I may circle back and try it again another day. I know others loved it, so be sure to check their thoughts on it too!

A winter in New York

Thank you NetGalley and Publisher for ARC. Sorry for the delayed review.

I had high hopes for this book. Josie Silver’s One day in December is my favorite Rom-Com. I have been following her books since that book. I love the author, loooove the setting of NYC, and I love winter. What a perfect book! But it was a bit disappointing. It is missing something that made the author’s story more fun. I can’t tell what it is. It was a bit predictable?

I have to say that her word choices and the way she describe scenery and food are magical. After reading the book, I raved gelato and Italian food

I'll be honest I didn't love this at first. The intergenerational plot line was a bit confusing at first, but I quick found myself falling in love with all of the characters. Gio and Iris have great chemistry and are two fantastic characters, but the relationship between Iris and Bobby was also heartwarming!

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of “A Winter in New York” by Josie Silver. All opinions are my own.

This book follows Iris as she leaves London and begins a new life in New York. She meets Gio and they instantly have a connection. Iris realized this connection extends to 30 years ago when her mother met his uncle in the same place. While Iris helps Gio try to figure out the secret family gelato recipe, she keeps the a number of other secrets as well.

I loved this story and the Belotti family most of all. I saw parallels with Moonlight and While You Were Sleeping, which was cute and perfect winter romance. The story with Iris’s ex felt a little under developed. We got random details here and there, and his showing up randomly at the end had some loose ends. But I loved Gio’s reaction and how despite being upset with her, her safety was the most important thing to him.

Overall would recommend!!

I got the arc of this and saved it for December. It was so sweet. I love anything she puts out. She’s a auto buy author for me and I enjoyed every second of this one

A Winter in New York is another masterpiece by Josie Silver. This author weaves words to create characters who are so real and evoke a real deal of emotion. Iris is a chef who had fled to New York for a fresh start. She longed to visit the places that she had seen through the movies that she had watched with her mother. Recognizing the window of a shop in the background of a photo in her mother’s scrapbook and walked into a shop that she realized was the origin of the secret gelato recipe that her mother made her promise to never share with another. She met a man named Gio, a member of the family who owned the shop. He confessed that his uncle had a stroke and couldn’t remember the family recipe, a closely guarded secret. Feeling an obligation to help the family from going out of business, she offered to try to replicate the recipe. The two began working together and she moved closer and closer to the family recipe without disclosing the secret that the recipe had been shared with her mother.. In the process, she found herself drawn closer to the family, while holding secrets and lies that she expected would topple that connection like a house of cards. This book transported me to New York at Christmas as Iris experienced so much, growing more confident in her new life and happy for the first time in years. Gio was genuine and vulnerable and so good for Iris and it was easy to hope for them. This author always takes her readers on an emotional journey that leaves us feeling so better in the end. She definitely did it again.. She did an amazing job, and I strongly recommend that readers of contemporary romance not miss this story. I am voluntarily submitting this honest review after reading an advanced complementary copy of this novel thanks to Netgalley and Random House Publishing, Ballantine.

I plan to post my review to my instagram later this week.

5/5! This story was cozy, raw, heartbreaking, heartwarming, charming, emotional, and loving. Keep your tissues handy because there’s a few scenes where you will need them. Honestly, each Josie Silver story I read seems better than the last. This is a book about love, loss, grief, hope, loyalty, family, secrets, and healing.

Synopsis: Iris, a chef, fled London on Christmas Day for a fresh start after losing her mother and to escape an emotionally abusive relationship. Her place of choice: New York City, to help reconnect her to the memory of her mom. So with suitcase in one hand and gelato maker in the other, she traveled to America and found peace with a job in a noodle shop and an apartment in the same building. One day, Bobby, Iris’ friend/boss/landlord, took her on a walk to visit a festival in Little Italy. There she saw a little Gelato shop and was stuck by the familiarity of it. Turns out, this Gelateria is one she’s seen millions of times in a photograph in her mother’s scrapbook. Curiosity getting the best of her, she wanders inside. It is there she meets Gio Belotti, a handsome widower who is trying to keep the family shop afloat. The problem: his father recently had an accident that impaired his memory and now the secret family gelato recipe is missing. Connecting the dots, Iris soon realizes that her mother’s sworn-to-secrecy gelato recipe and Gio’s family’s top secret recipe may be the same. Desperate to help the Belotti family out without betraying her mother’s secret, Iris ends up spending a lot of time with Gio and his family…and maybe falling in love while trying to save the Gelateria.

For those worried about if this is a “winter story” or a “Christmas story” I would pop it in the winter category. Only the last 30% or so of the book occurs at Christmas, but the holiday isn’t a focal point.

Thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group, Ballentine Dell for this ARC.

I love everything Josie Silver writes. This book started off smooth and fun, but the end packed one heck of a punch. Every emotion imaginable was felt. 5 big old shining Christmas trees for this one. Thank you, NetGalley for the eARC. It was spectacular as always.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an advanced copy. This was a fun winter read. I loved the connection between Iris and her mom, and the story of family with the Belottis. Good character development.

This is my first Josie Silver book. I enjoyed it- likely for it's NYC at Christmas time setting. It was a cozy read, great for the holiday season.. I just feel like something was missing from me connecting to it the way I do other stories. I just don't feel much for this story, so it's hard to write something super meaningful.

3.5 stars
Iris moves to New York to escape London and an abusive boyfriend. Her mom spent some of the best times of her life in New York. Iris is still grieving the passing of her mother so she starts over in a place her mother loved. As she is making a new life for herself, she stumbles upon an Italian bakery that seems familiar to her. While piecing together this connection to her mother, she meets the owners and becomes entangled with the whole family. This was really a different Christmas romance and I enjoyed that aspect of it.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine for the ARC of A Winter in New York by Josie Silver.

This was a fun, heartfelt read. Likable characters, with a little holiday-ness to it. And clean romance, something you don’t find much. Iris and Gio come together and form a relationship based on many lies/secrets and the story is saturated in history between their two families to layer on the complexities. Can they overcome this and still find love? I loved the story and the turns that I found a bit unexpected throughout the story. I must say, I don’t read enough of Josie Silver’s books, but when o do they do not disappoint.

What an absolutely perfect way to finish this gem of a book✨

I’m a longtime @josiesilverauthor fan, and was so excited to get an advanced copy of her latest, which came out in sept. But I’m a purest with my holiday and seasonal books, so I was saving this one. And when I decided to do a nyc holiday weekend, well obviously I knew what I would be reading✨

I really really loved this one. Iris recently moved to New York, leaving England and an unhealthy relationship shop and emotionally abusive ex. She’s created a lovely little life - getting additional chef experience as a chef and becoming close with her boss. One day she stumbles upon a gelato shop that makes her do a double take - she recognizes the decor from a photo her late mother took thirtysome years ago and left in a scrapbook. The only thing more surprising is the gelato itself - which takes exactly like the kind Iris’s mother taught her how to make but forbid her from ever sharing the recipe✨

Soon Iris meets Gio who runs the shop, and tells her it’s in danger of closing because the family recipe is lost with his father’s recent health issues✨

It’s an in interesting premise, and the character development really carries it. I got so invested in Iris, Gio (and his family!) and was not totally sure how it was going to pan out. Sometimes when I get invested early it inevitably leads to a disappointing ending - but that was y the case here. And when I tell you a few scenes got me in my feels…✨

Cannot recommend this one enough! So thankful to @netgalley and @randomhouse for this advanced copy✨

Will pst on retail sites, goodreads and my bookstagram @scottonreads

I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

For one thing this book made me really want some gelato. I enjoyed this book but it took forever for me to get into it. It took until about 40-50% of the book for me to get fully invested. I found the beginning boring and a little monotonous. But once I was interested in it then I did really enjoy it.

I absolutely loved One Day in December by this author so I thought that I would love this book as well but it just didn't do it for me in the same way.

3.5 stars rounded down

I absolutely loved this sweet winter romance! Fans of Silver’s One Day in December will be delighted to pick up her newest read. Thank you so much to the publisher and NetGalley for sharing an advance copy in exchange for my honest feedback!

I keep waiting for a Josie Silver book that I love as much as One Day in December, unfortunately this still wasn’t it.

I would say this one has similar feels throughout - a sense of fate and destiny pulling the characters together.

The dual timeline was interesting. The NYC in winter was fantastic. But I didn’t fully connect with either storyline and that truly could have been a me issue.

This was a super sweet story full of longing, nostalgia, delicious gelato references, epic love stories with flashbacks, family, and loyalty.

It’s ultimately the love story of Gio and Iris, but also the stories of Gio’s family and Iris’ mom Vivien.

I will note that even though it’s being marketed as a Christmas book, only the last 25% or so is set around the holidays; the book starts around early fall and is there for a while. It’s a sweet story but has a sad undertone through most of the tale, so just a heads up if you’re looking for a light Christmas rom-com. If you’re looking for an emotional story that will give you all the feels, then this is perfect!

I enjoyed the members of Gio’s family, and loved Iris’ friend Bobby and his husband. I did think Felipe wasn’t consistent, and there were some other logic gaps.

Overall a really intriguing read that really draws you in!

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for an ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Romcoms set in NYC are my all time fave. Sprinkle in a little holiday cheer and I am sold! Cuddling up with one of these books helps me create that big city holiday feeling. Visiting NYC at Christmas time has been on the top of my must see list for years, and this book made me want to go even more.

I love Josie Silver, and was so excited when I saw this book announcement. I was even more excited when Netgalley and Random House granted my request for an ARC!!!

A Winter in New York is a heartwarming holiday romcom that will leave you craving a big bowl of vanilla gelato! Josie does such a fabulous job writing characters that are struggling with bigger themes and end up learning and growing along their journey!

This is a MUST read this holiday season! I can’t recommend it enough! Thanks again to Netgalley and Random House!

A sweeping romance that spans decades and generations ttell the story of one woman's search for home and family.