The Spanish Love Deception
ANNOUNCEMENT: i go into every book knowing next to nothing. for this one, i know it is a romance book and there is smut.
DISCLAIMER: if your opinions on this book differ from mine, that is okay! everyone has different tastes in writing styles and storytelling. no hate no shade to those whoâs views do not align with what i have said. no one is right or wrong for liking certain things because we all experience life differently!
RANT/REVIEW:as of writing this i am only at page 228, which is roughly half way through the book. I am going to finish this book however, these are my complaints so far.
- the main character isnât given a huge physical description other than being hispanic
- the male love interest is also not given a huge physical description other than having blue eyes, being conventionally attractive, and big/large/tall
- both characters (so far) seem very one dimensional, with aaron (the male love interest) he is described as almost cold and reserved, whereas catalina/lina is described as loud and bubbly, both of them call the other stubborn multiple times
- the language the characters use to talk about the other is very repetitive, genuinely i am tired of catalina saying something about aaronâs ocean eyes, also the fact that they both call each other stubborn (i truly feel like that is on almost every page and im over it)
I would also like to mention that aaron is shown (and told to the reader) that he is a good listener. he brings up things that catalina feels as though he shouldnât know or remember because when she was talking, it was not her talking to him. my complaint with this (and all the other things like it) is that we should be shown personality, not both shown and told.
on page 229 there are about 3 paragraphs describing spain. due to the fact that the first half of the book lacks descriptions of almost everything, three paragraphs to describe the ambiance of spain and how the seasons work and common misconceptions, threw me off. why now? why this late into the book to describe something in greater detail than anything before it?
OVERALL THOUGHTS: i straight up wish this book had just been page 229 on, after page 229 we get more context for why the main characters âdonât like each otherâ so it almost makes the first part of the book pointless. I also feel like this book was trying to be ali hazelwood esque but fell flat. there is the woman in stem plot line and while that can add more to a romance, in this book it just didnât. there wasnât enough talk about the engineering field for the characters to feel like they needed or were originally meant to be engineers. like to me it feels like that was thrown in last minute to âadd moreâ to the story because overall there wasnât much going on in the first half.