Aurora York is a successful life coach and is adored by her fans. She has it all together. A fabulous career, a gorgeous boyfriend and a home she loves. She has put everything into her career at the cost of not seeing much of her friends and family, but that is how it goes when you want to be successful right?

When her world comes crashing down, Aurora can not seem to keep it together. She could lose everything she has worked so hard for. Aurora decides to take a DNA test as she is an only child, and to her surprise, she finds a match in Italy. How could that be? When she connects with her match, she finds a whole family she knew nothing about. On a whim she flies to Italy and is soon embraced with not only family, but culture and tradition. Can Aurora leave her new family behind and return to the States?

I loved this book by Jennifer Probst. It was like cuddling up in a cozy blanket and going on an adventure to Italy. The characters were fabulous and the story kept me engaged throughout the book. My thanks to Berkley Publishing and the author Jennifer Probst for my advanced readers copy which I read and reviewed voluntarily. Grab a copy friends and go on a beautiful adventure to Italy.

To Sicily with Love is a modern fictional spin on Eat, Pray, Love when literally everything has hit the fan for Aurora.

Aurora is a social media influencer/life coach who seems to have it all together, the perfect life, the perfect boyfriend (on paper), but then her mom dies, and it seems like her life just crumbles to pieces.

Then she finds out some interesting things about a relative in Sicily, so when she has nothing else going on, and life is sort of a hot mess, she takes the leap. This is truly the part where the spin on Eat, Pray, Love happens. The Italian landscapes, the food, the people. Ugh it's like you are there, you can visualize the beaches, taste the food and see these people (and also see these dinner conversations happening in real time).

Jennifer has a writing style that just makes you feel like you are right there in the mix of it, and I love it. Her series of Meet Me in Italy is absolutely wonderful (and no you don't need to read any of the other books before to grab this one).

If you are looking for a feel good, slow burn, closed-door romance, beach read type book, this is your book.

Thank you NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for my ARC!

4.25 on Story Graph, 4 Stars on Goodreads

QueenZany 3.5 Star Review
To Sicily with Love
by Jennifer Probst




To Sicily with Love was a truly lovely unique read. That sent you on a journey of loss, love, and finding oneself.

This was another wonderful book. This author never disappoints. It has been a beautiful series from the first book to this one.

OH. MY. GOD. This was such a perfect read! It was the perfect balance of real life problems and romance. The characters were developed so well and everything was easy to understand, even the Italian quotes. I appreciate that she did the work to include Sicilian traditions and made it authentic to the place. The building of characters was perfect and you really could feel her pain. I could relate a lot with how she describes grief, especially with her mom. I have now accepted my grief and that it will always live with me but it sometimes can be a good thing. also the ending had me crying

Thanks to for inviting me to participate in the blog tour!

This is a lovely romance that makes me want to fly to Italy and eat pasta. The descriptions of Italy are beautiful, and I loved the characters. The character development and the family dynamics are beautifully done, to the point that they read like a story of an actual family. The romance feels very natural and I was definitely rooting for them as a couple!

Blurb:
Aurora York had it all loving parents, a steady relationship, and a promising career. But after she loses both parents unexpectedly, she can’t seem to stay on track any longer. Lonely and lost after a public meltdown that threatens her professional credibility, she’s shocked when DNA test results show a blood relative in Sicily. When her cousin reaches out online and begs her to come to Italy to meet everyone in person, Aurora makes the leap.

Aurora arrives in Sicily for a month, and there she meets a colorful, dynamic family steeped in tradition. The younger generation is fascinated by her social media fame in America, and even though her grandparents have more traditional viewpoints, Aurora begins to heal from her grief…and enjoys the attention of a kind and handsome Italian man.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley, I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

To Sicily with Love
Jennifer Probst
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✨ Pub date Feb 18 ✨

🏖️ This book is the perfect beach read for your upcoming spring break or summer vacation. I really did not like Aurora (FMC) in the first half of the book and I get why she wrote her to have lost the meaning of her life as a life coach but thinking Jason was worthy of her love is insane. 🤯 I hated the fact that it took Aurora so long to figure that out for herself. Then, we didn’t get enough time and scenes with Quint to really feel emotionally connected to him like Aurora does. 

I loved all the descriptions of the food, the setting of Sciacca, and the scenes with her family, especially Catena and her grandfather. What I found relatable about Aurora was her grief and search for belonging.

Read if you love
✩ Travel Romance
✩ Slow burn 🔥
✩ Descriptive storytelling
✩ Found family
✩ Closed Door Spice 🤫

Jennifer Probst has a knack for taking her readers to beautiful places with characters you grow to love!

To Sicily with Love is book four in the Meet Me in Italy Series and I think it is my favorite one! All the women in these books are struggling with something hard and embark on a journey of self discovery to Italy. In this story we get to meet Aurora. She has just lost her mother, and her father five years before and is drowning in grief. Aurora is a character I immediately connected with and I think you will too. She is fierce and vulnerable, soft and hard, and looking for what we all are looking for, people to love and support her no matter what. One lonely night she decides to do a dna swab test to see if she has any other family out there and what she finds is so much FUN!

Probst brings us to Sicily in this story and I really, really felt like I was there with Aurora, hanging out in her beautiful apartment overlooking the marina or driving down the crazy Italian streets or having a drink with her in Bar Sciacca. The way Probst describes her locations transports the reader right there!

Probst also crafts all the intricacies of family dynamics beautifully. Aurora is struggling with so much heartbreak but there is so much hope in this story. So much fun and messiness, honesty and realness. I wanted to be a part of this story so much!

This is the perfect read to get you out of a slump and not feeling those winter blues! I really enjoyed this one so much!

To Sicily with Love is an immersive and beautifully written escape to Sicily. Jennifer Probst masterfully conveys the sights, smells, and flavors of the region, making it feel as if you’re experiencing it firsthand. The characters are relatable and well-drawn, with authentic relationships and emotions that resonate. Themes of grief, family bonds, and self-discovery are woven seamlessly into the story, adding depth beyond just a travel romance. While there is a romantic element, it’s handled with just the right balance—believable and heartfelt without being overly sweet. A wonderful, feel-good read that transports you to the heart of Sicily. A vacation to Italy without the bother of having to get on an airplane. This was the first of Jennifer Probst books that I have read --I’ll definitely be reading more!

This is a perfect vacation read! To Sicily with Love is sweet story full of beautiful locations and food following a grieving daughter who sets out to find out more about her family roots. I enjoyed following Aurora as she heals from some very difficult events in her life. There were so many fun side characters and a sweet romance. I loved visiting Sicily with her. It makes me want to go as I have distant family connections in Sicily and I could relate a bit to Aurora's story. Overall a fun, sometimes emotional read that I would recommend! I look forward to reading more of Jennifer Probst's books set in Italy!

Thank you to Berkley Publishing and Netgalley for the advance read copy. The book releases Feb. 18, 2025!

So much to say about the his book. It was heartwarming and heartbreaking. I lived it. The boyfriend was a little controlling which I felt bad for Aurora. He just rubbed me the wrong way. But Aurora finds something in Sicily that put a smile on my face. It was sweet, but so much going on that was not know.

The way I want summer to get here now after reading this. This was an amazing summer romance filled with entertaining characters, a cute plot, and just enough suspense to keep a person reading. I loved it!

An amazing story of loss, grief and finding herself.
Aurora's life was great, then she lost her father, she got herself up. Then she lost her mother and everything came down, during this time she find out that she has a family on mother side, they live in Sicily. She leave everything and travel to Sicily to meet them and uncover her mother's secret.
When I start to read this book, I didn't like Aurora or her boyfriend, but as the storyline progress, it pulled me in so much, that I couldn't put in back.
It is wonderful story.

Thank you, @authorJenniferProbst and @BerkleyRomance for my free book.

📚 #BOOKREVIEW 📚
To Sicily with Love by Jennifer Probst
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / Pages: 384 / Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Release Date: February 18, 2025
🥳#HappyPubDay!🎉

Aurora is so busy with work and her fitness-obsessed boyfriend that she doesn’t have time for her friends or her mother. And then her mother dies suddenly and she tries to get over her grief and back to normal as quickly as she can. On a whim, she joins an ancestry site and discovers family on her mother’s side that she never knew existed. In short, she eventually realizes that she can’t fast-track her grief (much to her unsympathetic and patronizing boyfriend’s dismay) and decides to take some much needed time off—away from work and him. She goes to Italy, gets to know her huge Italian family, finds out what exactly happened between them and her mother, and finally indulges in some carbs and a little romance.

I assumed this book was going to be just a sweet little romance set in Italy. It’s so much more than that. This story literally has all the feels plus rich descriptions of the Sicilian coastal lifestyle and all the scrumptious local cuisine. I loved everything about this book and highly recommend it.

Aurora's life takes an unexpected turn when, in the midst of grieving a loss and finding herself living a life she doesn't recognize or understand, she discovers her late mother's Sicilian family. What awaits her is nothing she's ever experienced in her adult life - unconditional love and acceptance. Jennifer Probst paints a picture with her words and as I read, it felt like I was watching a movie. Excellent read with all the things that the best books deliver: complex characters to fall in love with who will stay with me for a long time, a cast of characters who jump off the page and a love story that encompasses a place, a found family and Quint, my new favorite book boyfriend. This one left my heart full to bursting. I loved it and I highly recommend.
WHAT I LOVED: Romantic-Wonderful Characters-Page Turner-HEA

I received a complementary copy of this book and am voluntarily providing my honest review.

Contemporary Fiction • Romance • Italy
Publication Date • 18 February 2025

Happy publication day! Thanks @berkleypub & @prhaudio for the free book and ALC! ‧₊˚🎧⊹

▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။||||။‌‌‌‌‌၊|• Travel to Sicily for a feel good story about what is important in life ˚₊˚⊹♡

Aurora is a life coach with a social media following, successful podcast, lots of clients, a book deal on the way, and a dreamy gym-owner boyfriend. However, when her mom passes away, genetic testing reveals that she has a whole extended family in Sicily that her mom hid from her.

Suddenly Aurora’s life turns upside down in eat, pray, love fashion as she upends her life, traveling across the world on a journey of self-discovery.

🍷Where this book shines is in the food descriptions that had me salivating and drooling, as well as the descriptions of the various markets and attractions: the charm of rural Italy. 🍝🦀🐚 This book was slower paced and although some scenes had me emotional, I did not connect with the main character. However, just because it was not for me does not mean it’s not for you!

‧₊˚⊹♡ Read this one when in the mood for a light, slower pace journey of healing with a no spice romance.

The audiobook was cute with Italian accents as well as actual Italian language. ‧₊˚🎧⊹

TO SICILY WITH LOVE is the fourth instalment in Jennifer Probst’s contemporary, adult MEET ME IN ITALY woman’s fiction series. This is life coach/ motivational speaker/ author American Aurora York’s story line. TO SICILY WITH LOVE is a complete stand alone, and is not connected to the previous instalments.

Told in three parts, from first person perspective (Aurora) TO SICILY WITH LOVE follows in the wake of Aurora York’s mother’s death. Since the death of her father five years earlier, workaholic Aurora York’s relationship with her mother has been strained . Hours after they last spoke Aurora’s mother dies, leaving Aurora grasping with a grief she did not understand. Six months will past, Aurora’s business and promotions begin to fail, and her relationship with fitness instructor James struggles in the face of different objectives but a DNA test will reveal a large extended Italian family, a family she knew nothing about. With the only family she knew dead and buried, Aurora travels overseas where she will find a place to call home, and someone to love.

The world building focuses on the fracture dynamics of a mother and daughter torn apart but secrets and lies. Aurora does not understand her mother’s ongoing grief and loss but Aurora does not have the time to think about anything else except furthering her business and online career. A trip to Italy will reveal years of unspoken heart break and loss but a connection to her mother she never knew existed.

Aurora York will meet her mother’s large extended and boisterous Italian family where secrets reveal words said in anger pushed the family apart. Aurora will meet and fall in love with a young man whose own life spiralled years before but a man who is willing to give love a chance.

TO SICILY WITH LOVE is a story of secrets and lies, grief and loss, acceptance and love. The premise is heart breaking and emotional; the romance is subtle; the characters are numerous, energetic and charismatic.



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Jennifer Probst’s To Sicily with Love is an engaging story on so many levels. It’s a love letter to Italy, big, boisterous totality involved families, fabulous food, customs and culture. It’s about life choices, forms of love, emotional growth, relationships and romance. Simply put, it’s a story to savor. I voluntarily reviewed an advance copy of this book from NetGalley. Most highly recommend.

This was the book I needed 3 months after losing my mom. To be able to escape to. Beautiful town and to go on this journey that shows life can be beautiful after tremendous loss. The Author did an amazing job with description that I almost feel I have visited. 5 stars.

3.5 stars.
This book began with Aurora, a life coach who is go go go all the time. It emphasized it so much it made me question my life. It doesn't help that her boyfriend is also the same way but more extreme, very superficial with no family values. Unfortunately for Aurora life decides to make her slow down as tragedy strikes and all these emotions start to surface whether she likes it or not.

She decides to take a DNA test to see if she has
Any family left and takes a trip to Italy. It was very much eat, prey love. But I had trouble connecting with the characters. I loved where the story was going and it makes you appreciate that it's not always work hard but to enjoy the little things.

Thank you to Net Galley and Berkeley publishing for gifting me this eARC.