Author: Elena Armas
Series: None
Publication Date: February 8, 2022
Publisher: Atria
Pages: 448
Obtained: purchased
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Rating: 5/5
Bottom Line: Slow, spicy burn
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Summary: Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows—including her ex and his fiancée—will be there and eager to meet him. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won’t be easy to fool. Enter Aaron Blackford—her tall, handsome, condescending colleague—who surprisingly offers to step in. She’d rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man. But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office. ~amazon.com
Review: Well Ms. Armas wastes no time diving right into the storyline with the first line of the book and it pretty much had me swooning from then on. I mean I'm sorry but Lina is pretty blind that she can't see how Aaron is totally into her from the beginning. I guess that is the purpose of an enemies to lovers book though. Although I wasn't convinced that it was a two sided hate at all. I mean a guy who hates you doesn't offer to bail you out, right?
The heat that radiates from the two of them really comes off the page but it's also very sweet. I loved Lina and her loud, boisterous family. They cracked me up, especially her sister. Lina is full of assumptions about Aaron because of their initial meeting and something she heard while passing outside a door. Of course, there's a very different meaning around what he said.
What I loved about this is that it is the epitome of a slow burn, I mean you have to read 3/4 of the book to get to the spicy, but the build up is so worth it. There's a good plot too about confronting your past to move on and learning to forgive yourself.
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