Published: December 10, 2024
Length: 320 pages
Format: Paperback
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Characters: Rosie and Aiden
POV: Rosie’s, 1st person

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:
• enemies to lovers • forced proximity • writers • multicultural • college • teacher and student •

Review

I’m starting to reevaluate my love for enemies to lovers trope. I don’t know if either I’ve changed as a reader or authors are not doing their best when writing this trope. I just know that every time I read an enemies to lovers now the characters come off SO immature, like they’re two children in kindergarten fighting for the same chair 🙄 in my head their banter sounds like this “The red chair is mine.” “No, it’s mine. I love red. Red is my favorite color.” “But I saw that chair first, it’s mine.” “Teacher, he’s being a dick. That chair is mine! Red is my color.” “Oh now you’re ratting me out to the teacher?” “Because you started!”. “No, you did!”… Ugh 😑 authors, you can do better than this.

Don’t get me wrong, but after reading three enemies to lovers in a row with this exactly same childish like banter, I am not with enough patience for it. I don’t need to finish this book to know that it will be just an okay read for me at best. DNFing.

“I just … wanted to be loved so badly that I thought being hurt was part of the deal.”

Blurb

The Hating Game meets Beach Read in this sexy and hilarious contemporary romance from a debut Peruvian-Tennessean voice.

Rosie, an idealistic and passionate Peruvian-American who has grown up without strong ties to her culture, leaves her Tennessee hometown to pursue her dream of making it in New York as a writer. But her plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her arch-nemesis and ex-crush, Aiden Huntington—an obnoxious, surly, and gorgeous literary fiction writer who doesn’t have much patience for the romance genre, or for Rosie.

Rosie and Aiden regularly go to verbal battle in workshop until their professor reaches her breaking point. She allows them to stay in her class on one condition: they must co-write a novel that blends their genres.

The reluctant writing duo can’t help but put pieces of themselves into their accidentally steamy novel, and as they slowly get to know each other, they try to put their differences aside. Meanwhile, their manuscript-in-progress provides an outlet for them to confess their feelings—and explore their attraction toward each other.

When Rosie and Aiden find themselves competing against each other for a potentially career-changing opportunity, the flames of old rivalry reignite, and their once-in-a-lifetime love story is once again at risk of being shelved—unless they can find a way to end the book on their own terms.