Hello book lovers! I know that for all our north hemisphere’s friends the summer is ending but for the southern hemisphere’s friends it’s just about to begin. But no matter where you are, if you like fun romances, this book might be the right one for you.
✔️marriage of convenience
✔️slow-burn
✔️ forced proximity
✔️billionares
✔️opposites attract
The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
I can’t even convey how much I loved this book!! It completely captured me. I devoured it in a couple of hours, staying up way too late because it was addictive. Christina Lauren promises AND DELIVERS!
What is it about?
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. (via Goodreads)
did you say marriage of convenience? ummm YES!
Marriage of convenience is one of my favourite tropes so I had high hopes for this one, and let me tell you, it met and surpassed all my expectations. West and Anna are perfect! Their story got me laughing out loud, smiling like a fool, wanting to high-five West’s family on their faces with a chair, but mostly just wanting to protect and hug West, he is peeeeeeerfect.
I loved how smoothly and perfectly they fell in love, how they opened up to each other and how they were their ride or die. I loved Anna’s relationship with her dad and would’ve loved to have read more scenes of them and also with Vivi who looks like such a fun character. But I loved the book nonetheless.
And that epilogue…are you kidding me?! ABSOLUTE PERFECTION!
I know I’ve said the word perfect way too many times in this review but I can’t help myself.
If you like slow-burn, marriage of conveniences and fun summer rom-com reads, look no further, this is IT.
Thank you NetGalley and Little, Brown Book Group for giving me the ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
Tell me, have you reach Christina Lauren? What is your favourite book by them?
love, Lin xx
