This was a wonderfully emotional rollercoaster of a book. I loved the writing and storytelling and all the characters (even though I’m not a fan of flashbacks).

Thank you to the publishers and Netgalley.

Winter in New York is a lovely story of a young woman learning who she is and where she wants to be in life, while also falling in love with the son of a gelato maker. Before she was born, Iris's mother had a fiery fling with Santo, a gelato maker who gave her his family secret - his gelato recipe. Flash forward 40ish years, and Santo has just had a stroke, forgetting the famous recipe. Iris stumbles upon the shop and the secret by accident - she had no idea her mother's secret recipe was really Santo's secret recipe - so she decides to help them.

Very interesting. Bit of an emotional rollercoaster through the last few chapters, what with Adam and Iris making some spectacularly stupid decisions.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing for the free electronic Advanced Reader.

If you weren't a fan of vanilla gelato before this book, you will 100% be craving it by the time you finish reading! Such a cute and refreshing holiday read in the one of the best cities on earth during the holidays, New York City. All of the characters are likable, except for the obviously evil ones, and the writing transports you to NYC, eating gelato at Belotti's in no time. I adored this one.

thank you NetGalley for this arc, all opinions are my own

This was a cute read just time for Christmas. I loved the flashbacks in this story to irises mom. I loved the fact that Iris and Gio had such a cute partnership.

this was a good book over all! i loved iris and felt for her this whole book! however personally i hate reading flashbacks so that’s where my fault is. other than that i enjoyed this book and seeing where her and gio end up! thank you for this arc!!

I don’t know what it is about Josie Silver’s writing, but it always elicits such strong emotions from me. This book was no exception. It was an adorable wintery read, that had tears pouring down my face at the end. This was a home run for me!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion!

Publish date- 10/3/23

This novel was so warm and wrapped so many emotions into the story that I truly felt transformed in a matter of hours.
I was so thrilled to find out that this was somewhat of a dual-timeline, where we got to see Iris and her mother’s story collide. The trope of having a parallel to a family member within a story is very popular and I loved how Silver executed this.
The characters are all so lovable and absolutely deep. There were so many layers to Iris that the reader continued to peel back well into the book. Iris was also the perfect narrator, keeping bits and pieces of herself for the reader to discover along the way.

I absolutely adored this sweet story, and I’m putting it down having felt so many rollercoaster rushes of emotions from grief, romantic love, parental protectiveness, and strength of a family unit. This is a perfect winter read!

5 gelato stars

Oh my, Josie Silver knocked my socks off with this one!

Iris is a young woman on her own in New York, fleeing her life in London and hoping to make a fresh start. She finds work as the chef at a noodle shop and becomes fast friends with the owner. One day, they visit a food festival and happen upon a gelateria, closed temporarily. This gelateria is famous for its secret recipe for vanilla gelato.

Iris finally realizes that she recognizes the door from her mother’s scrapbook. She discovers another surprise in the scrapbook and returns to the gelateria the next day. She meets Gio, a handsome family member of the gelateria business. The family is distraught because no one has the secret recipe, as a family member has fallen ill. The existence of the business hangs in the balance.

Iris is faced with a dilemma as she spends more and more time with the family and falls hard for Gio. She hasn’t been honest with them and fears she will have to leave town again.

I loved the characters in this one. I loved watching Iris blossom in New York with good friends who helped her overcome her struggles from London. And the whole Bellotti family is amazing.

This one made me crave vanilla gelato or really any gelato! And I broke out the tissues. Nothing wrong with either of those!

I loved Josie Silvers book, “One Night on the Island”, so I was super excited for A Winter in New York! Definitely read this one! Gio and Iris are everything!

A Winter in New York is quite possibly my favorite of Josie Silver’s books. It has all the warmth, love, and growth I’ve come to expect from her books while also completing enthralling me into the story. Gio and Iris will live in my heart forever.

A Winter In New York is such a cute heartfelt book. It is so easy to fall in love with the Iris and Gio from the very beginning. The Belotti family is the picture perfect Italian family that every person longs to be apart of. Watching Iris grow throughout the story is beautiful.

A Winter in New York (not to be confused with a Christmas in New York because that’s what I was expecting) by Josie Silver follows Iris who has escaped her life and moved to New York to start new. She tries to relive her mother’s memories by visiting places that meant a lot to her and ends up finding a gelato store that has a lot of significance to Iris’ mother and Iris finds out that she actually holds the secret to the shop’s future in a recipe that has been forgotten. Iris also meets Gio, the charming man working in the shop that she has a bit of history with. Will this be Iris’ happy story or will something else happen?

This book was not what I expected and not on a good way. I did not enjoy my time reading this and almost dnfed it at several points but a lot of early reviews said the last chunk was amazing. It was not. Iris is very irritating as a main character to follow because she is so wishy washy. She also starts the story with a few different lies that caused a lot of unnecessary drama. There is a weird scene involving a talent show that I could take seriously and Iris also has a man in her past that is little more than a mustache twirling villain. There were too many characters on Gio’s family and none of them really felt fleshed out so they were confusing to read about.

The one thing I did enjoy is there are a few flashbacks to Iris’ mother in the eighties and those were actually fun to read. But there were only a couple throughout the whole book so it was weird that they were even there at all.

Super bummed I didn’t like this book. This is the fourth book by this author I have attempted and I only liked the first one I read so I think this is where we part ways.

One Night on the Island was one of my favorite books last year, so I was VERY excited to see a new book from Josie Silver. And it did not disappoint.

It’s official - Gio is my new book boyfriend. Normally, I’d give this book 4-4.5 stars, but I’m rounding up to 5 just because I’m obsessed with Gio. A widowed father who helps run the family Gelateria, he’s handsome, loyal, and fiercely devoted to those he loves. And he throws a mean punch to defend his woman (I wouldn’t be into that in real life, but in books…YES PLEASE).

Anyway, if you couldn’t already tell, I was very into his character, but I liked Iris too. She’s been through some tough times and I loved following her journey to find love and family. I thought the progression of their relationship was realistic and so sweet. My only complaint was that I didn’t think her lie about her “husband” was that big of a deal. I feel like that was explainable and that Gio wouldn’t have held it against her, so I wish that had been cleared up earlier.

I loved that all of the secondary characters are amazing too. I wish Bobby, Sophia, and the entire Belotti family were real and could be my friends/family.

If you enjoy Emily Henry, Carley Fortune, Annabel Monaghan, etc., I would highly recommend this one. It’s the perfect cozy, winter/holiday read.

I received a complimentary copy of this book "A Winter in New York" and all opinions expressed are my own. This was a cute story. I enjoyed reading this book. I have read other books by this author that I have loved. A bit of a slow burn but overall good.

This was really really cute! Even though it's pushed as a winter romance, it takes place from early fall to New Year's Day, so I honestly think it would be a perfect cozy read for any time now through the end of the year.

The found family vibes and their complicated relationships with their biological families were *chef's kiss.* The first quarter or so felt pretty slow for me because it was mostly about the gelato recipe—which I never found myself feeling that invested in, but once the romance aspect picked up it really drew me in.

The weakest aspect for me was the fact that most of the tension was based on Iris keeping a secret that she could have just told at the beginning of the book and it wouldn't have been a huge deal. Silver tries really hard to make you believe through Iris' doom-spiraling that this family finding out that one of them shared their secret recipe decades ago would genuinely risk tearing them apart, but I was never really sold on that.

The writing style was also a little hit or miss for me. There were some times where it felt pretty basic and yanked me out of the story, but there were other moments that I thought were very tender and well done. I still can't decide how I feel about the flashbacks to Iris' mom—there were only four or five of them, which made it feel like the author wasn't really committing to the dual timelines thing, but I think adding in more of them might have made the pacing drag.

I assume what I read wasn't the final draft, so I bet I would enjoy the final product even more! Even though it wasn't my absolute favorite book ever, it was still a very cute and unique romance that I would recommend to any romcom lover.

The writing is fine and the story is gine. Typically if you like her other books you will like this one. I was not a fan of the mc and her lying. I understand the lies are part of the story . Nsybe because i did not like the mc it bothers me . I liked the male love interest for the most part

Thanks netgalley

When Iris stumbles upon an old gelato shop that triggers a lost memory from her mother she knows it had to have meant something. Iris soon finds a picture of the shop and a napkin with a gelato recipe on it in her mothers old things. Having just lost her mother three years ago, she takes it as a sign. Inside she meets Gio, a widow, and single father and current runner of the gelato shop. Only one problem, there’s no gelato, because no one knows the secret receipt except his Papa who recently fell ill and… Iris. Unveiling the truth of Iris’s mother’s past and getting caught up in Iris’s lies, all while falling in love, made this a fun read. I had wished for a simpler solution since Iris seemed to dig herself deeper and deeper into her web of lies as the story went on. I also wish the ending hadn’t felt so rushed, but it was a fun quick read perfect for the holidays! While reading have some gelato near by! You’re going to crave it!

Thank you NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for the Advanced Readers Copy.

Review will be posted on @litwithlyssa on Instagram on publication date.

Four stars. Wonderful characters and plot. Josie Silver is pure gold. Will be recommending and reading everything in the future from this author. Thank you for the title.

4 🌟

A Winter in New York is a fun, Christmas romcom. I am a sucker for strong side characters in a book and that's what sealed the deal for me with this book.

After Iris's mom dies, she finds herself in New York - a place her mom loved. She quickly makes friends with her boss, Bobby and his husband, Robert. She then stumbles across a gelateria that looks a lot like a place in one of her mom's photos. It's there that she meets Gio.

I loved loved Gio and his whole family and would love to spend Christmas with them. ❤️

This book was so much cuter than I originally anticipated! The story mixed with the pacing of the book was just perfect! It threatened to make cry multiple times! Overall, a very cute holiday read!