3.5

The Spanish Love Deception

Elena Armas
Book
October
2021

Review:

This was a very cliche book, and as much as I love that romance, this one took it too far. It was almost as if it tried to stuff all the tropes in one book. The other problem is the author is a chemical engineer, which is really cool, but it also meant her writing skill was not the best. It was really nice that she gave this a go, but it just needed a little/lot more editing. She used the words big and huge on almost every page in this 400-page book in various contexts. It just got repetitive. That was another problem; who writes a 400-page romance novel? They are supposed to be short and sweet; this one was definitely not! I feel like she could have condensed some parts and made it a little less of a slow burn. It got to a point where I had fifty pages left, and they still hadn’t kissed. It made the ending feel rushed and predictable. There were some flaws, but the story was good, and I liked the chemistry between the characters. She was just a new author, which is perfectly fine!

Trigger Warnings:
Sexism, Dieting & restrictive eating, Grief & loss depiction, and Death of a parent

Synopsis From Book:

A wedding. A trip to Spain. The most infuriating man. And three days of pretending. Or in other words, a plan that will never work. Catalina Martín, finally, not single. Her family is happy to announce that she will bring her American boyfriend to her sister’s wedding. Everyone is invited to come and witness the most magical event of the year. That would certainly be tomorrow’s headline in the local newspaper of the small Spanish town I came from. Or the epitaph on my tombstone, seeing the turn my life had taken in the span of a phone call. Four weeks wasn’t a lot of time to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic–from NYC and all the way to Spain–for a wedding. Let alone, someone eager to play along my charade. But that didn’t mean I was desperate enough to bring the 6’4 blue eyed pain in my ass standing before me. Aaron Blackford. The man whose main occupation was making my blood boil had just offered himself to be my date. Right after inserting his nose in my business, calling me delusional, and calling himself my best option. See? Outrageous. Aggravating. Blood boiling. And much to my total despair, also right. Which left me with a surly and extra large dilemma in my hands. Was it worth the suffering to bring my colleague and bane of my existence as my fake boyfriend to my sister’s wedding? Or was I better off coming clean and facing the consequences of my panic induced lie? Like my abuela would say, que dios nos pille confesados.
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