5

The Paradise Problem

Christina Lauren
Book
June
2024

Review:

So so good! I literally had too much trouble putting this book down. I was exactly what I love in summer. Light, but it had a lot of characterization and feeling. At the same time, it was set on a remote tropical island, which wasn't the point of the book. It was just a subplot and a setting. And that's how I like books, with the setting being a tool in the Story, not the point of it. I really enjoyed the fake marriage trope but especially liked how they put their own twist on it and had them married for 5 years! Really such a good book and a great vacation read!

Trigger Warnings:
False allegations of sexual harassment (love interest) Psychological & verbal parental abuse Parent in cancer recovery

Synopsis From Book:

Christina Lauren, returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance. Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch. Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents—his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife. But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.
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