The Spanish Love Deception: TikTok made me buy it! The Goodreads Choice Awards Debut of the Year
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WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR.
A BOOKTOK SENSATION.
A wedding in Spain. The most infuriating man. Three days to convince your family you’re actually in love. . .
Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially when her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows – including her ex-boyfriend and his fiancée – will be there.
She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic for her and aid in her deception. NYC to Spain is no short flight and her family won’t be easy to fool. . . But even then, when Aaron Blackford – the 6’4″, blue-eyed pain in the arse – offers to step in, she’s not tempted even for a second. Never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling and insufferable man.
But Catalina is desperate and as the wedding gets closer the more desirable an option Aaron Blackford becomes. . .
The Spanish Love Deception is an enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating romance. Perfect for those looking for a steamy slow-burn with the promise of a sweet happy-ever-after.
“Everything you could want in a romance is right here.”
Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient
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Additional information
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster UK, 1st edition (28 Oct. 2021) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 480 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1398515620 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1398515628 |
| Dimensions | 22 x 15 x 2.5 cm |
by Scarlett Laidler
5 stars 3 spice
Omg I can not explain my feelings behind this book. The entire time I was reading I didn’t get the 5 star feeling and even when I was towards the end I was thinking that this isn’t a 5 star book. However when I finished it I was like ughhh maybe this is a 5 star read.
The plot
This is about 2 office workers Lina and Aaron who have thisc like rival thing going on until Lina needs a date to her sisters wedding and Aaron offers himself to her. So yes this book is a fake dating story and similar to the love hypothesis its written in a way that doesn’t get boring even though it’s a slow burn.
Anyway that’s the general gist of the plot- like I said before I didn’t expect to like this book as much as I did I originally thought that with thw slow burn aspect I would get bored and have to drag myself though it work was anything but the case because I qas hooked and gripped from page 1 something about the writing and the characters just made this book. Speaking of characters I would like to announce that Aaron Blackford has joined my book boyfriend list because this guy is actually perfect.
Now ✨️the spice✨️ I had heard so many mixed things about this spice factor in this book from its very spicy and intense to its got barely anything and is YA. So I’m here to clear things up this book has 2 spicy scenes one of which beignvan entire chapter. So yes it is spicy. But not as intense and extreme as I head heard. However will all of that this the spice in this hit me like a moving train as in I had to put the book down- I had goosebumps-.
Overall this book is 100% worth the hype maybe even slightly underrated and defo worth a read.
by Caro Richard
I do love a fake dating read!
Catalina needs a date for her sisters wedding in Spain after she has told a large white lie about having an American boyfriend!
Enter colleague and arch-nemesis Aaron Blackford! Catalina doesn’t have any other options and Aaron has an alterior motive.
I really enjoyed this book! It wasn’t strung out, had just the right amount of tension and I loved the banter and I now admit I have a crush on Aaron! He knows what he wants and goes for it!
A good romance read so I say you should go for it!
by marian floarea
read it on holiday so it defo fits the vibe, takes a while to actually get to the spain bit but defo a bit cringey at times
by Alexander McCall
I really wanted to like this book. A nice, schmaltzy story, with misunderstands, lusting from afar and a passionate romance that succeeds against all odds with charismatic main leads.
And at first that was what I got. Catalina Martín needs a date to her sister’s wedding to show up her ex who is attending with his new fiancé. And the only person who’ll agree to go with her is Aaron Blackford, her co-worker that she does not get on with. It is very obvious to the reader that Aaron has it bad for her but she doesn’t see it. But the sparks begin flying between them and soon she can’t hold herself back from admitting that maybe she has feelings as well.
Frankly I could have eaten the first half of this book with hot fudge and chocolate. The way it builds up is very satisfying. We learn little hints about who Aaron is under the suit he wears at work. He relaxes and lets Catalina in as they enjoy the wonderful weekend in Spain, getting involved with her family and trying to pretend they’re dating.
Sadly the second half isn’t as good. Once they do admit their feelings to each other the sparks kinda fade. There’s less of the snappy conversations and less revelations about Aaron’s character. And it was at this point that I realised that most things we learned about Aaron are never mentioned again and don’t have any baring on his character. He mentions liking dogs but we don’t see him interact with any. He says he likes animated movies (Up is his favourite) but again that doesn’t come back at all. It leaves his character a bit hollow. Honestly it seems like the only consistent thing about him is that he likes Catalina and does so with an intensity that is a little disturbing. Not least because, while up until now there’s been a nice snappy back and forth between him, she just kind of melts into him at this point.
Also, and I know this is a weird complaint, but Catalina is oddly…uninvolved when they have sex. Aaron picks her up, moves her limbs into the positions that he wants and generally takes the lead. She enjoys this and the book doesn’t ever say anything about it, it just seems really odd to me. With her personality I’d really expect more of a give and take in bed but, as with the relationship side of things, she very quickly becomes very submissive.
Finally, I didn’t like the how the last conflict of the book was resolved. They were building up nicely to a point about how much harder it is for women working in the corporate world in general and in engineering specifically. This came to a head and was then resolved in an almost superficial way. There was no grand revelations to any of the male characters that, yeah, that kind of thing is a difficult issue. In general the plot seemed very conflict adverse, which is fine but it was actively setting up those conflicts and then just avoiding them.
All in all it wasn’t a bad book but I’ve read better ones with the same plot.
by Neha Ali
I did really love this book at the start, it was very cute had some great moments in it, but it wasn’t amazing, and I found myself getting slightly bored at the end.
Plot was great, I did prefer this approach over a lot of fake dating stories, but it did get boring towards the end – however, a lot of those books do that because by the time they confess their feelings or things come into light, there’s not much left to say.
For this being the writer’s first book it’s great, they did an amazing job. Some descriptive words could use some work (I noticed the repetition of the word “hard” but used for his body? It was a bit strange seeing that) and sometimes the descriptions felt a bit flat, but I didn’t mind it much.
I personally don’t enjoy reading sex scenes so I pretty much skipped through all of that at the end, however, I will say that what I did read did seem a but like wattpad fanfiction smut ????????
I’m not saying all this to criticise though, as I said, the author still did a great job for their first book which is why I gave it 4 stars.
by Holly Saye
What a book!!?
At first it was a real slow burner but the long you read the better it gets.
The romance is unmatched