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Lukov'dan Sevgiler

Mariana Zapata

4.18 AVERAGE

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DID NOT FINISH: 3%

ITS VERY UNPLEASANT TO READ OMG
emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Loved this book, a slow burn but worth the wait
challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

3,5⭐

Venía de un bloqueo lector de meses y este libro logró sacarme. Es ligero y con 2 ingredientes fundamentales de toda comedia romántica: risas a montones y una muy buena protagonista. ¿El romance? Brilla por su ausencia, pero no fue algo que me haya molestado. Es más, no sé cómo lo hubieran podido meter considerando la construcción del personaje femenino.

Cuando leí la sinopsis de la historia y vi que había patinaje artístico pensé "ES MI LIBRO". Al mismo tiempo me dio miedo porque el patinaje es algo hermoso de ver y experimentar, pero la parte técnica de la explicación le saca la gracia, es el equivalente a saberse el truco de magia. Así que en sí las descripciones de los enlaces, trompos y saltos fueron aburridas y sin gracia, recomendaría a todo aquel que no conozca el deporte que busque videos en Youtube de las figuras que nombra, eso es mejor que quedarse con la descripción. Sin embargo, lo aburrido e inevitable de esas descripciones se salva con la pasión que la autora logra transmitir. Los personajes principales viven por y para patinar, muestran lo despiadado que es el entorno, los sacrificios que se deben realizar y lo difícil que es ser un atleta de élite.

Un libro muy bueno, ¿Excelente? No, tiene sus fallos, la repetición constante el más grande y la falta de desarrollo de ciertos temas la siguiente. Sin embargo, lo recomiendo mucho y si hay algo que tengo que destacar es el personaje principal femenino y su familia; son todo lo que está bien.

From Lukov with Love tackles a range of different themes. You have romance (enemies to best friends to lovers), body issues, bullying, self doubt, building self resilience and more.

I have to admit, I absolutely loatheeed Ivan and Jasmine's dynamics at first. Like the guy literally takes the piss out of her body, and I felt someone's the fine lines of banter was crossed. However, his character development did massively shock me in a good way and I found myself really enjoying his character in the end.

I found Jasmine a little frustrating but only because I found myself relating so much to her self doubting, and almost self sabotaging tendencies. But again, her character development made me happy and I was rooting for her by the end of it.

I really really loved Jas' family and all the different dynamics between them. The siblings rivalry and love just hit me all in the feels.

I have to admit certain scenes had me squealing, like talk about timing?? (Iykyk). Once I hit the 300page mark I found it impossible to put down and flew threw the end. Admittedly it was a tad too slow for me at first, but I'm glad I stuck with it because I ended up enjoying it.

For my second ever sports romance, it was a gooden.

4.8.8
challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

obcecada!!!!!!! esse aqui é única e exclusivamente pra nós que amamos um bom slow burn (e é slow de verdade). o famoso enemies (rivals?) to lovers em que claramente ele sempre esteve no lovers e ela sozinha no enemies. adorei a escrita, adorei o desenvolvimento, adorei que tiveram partes tão importantes quanto o romance na vida deles e amei a dinâmica entre os protagonistas.
sem falar que não consigo descrever a PAZ de não ter que lidar com um término no terceiro ato, simplesmente porque não tinha romance pra terminar até aquele ponto rsrsrs.
que delícia de livro, perfeito pra quem gosta mais da ânsia de querer eles juntos do que o juntos em si! só não levou 5 estrelas, porque achei que ela errou nas idades, já que ambos os protagonistas agem como se tivessem 20 e poucos anos, sendo que eles deviam ser um pouquinho mais maduros a essa altura (não me atrapalhou, mas fica a observação pra quem quer muito ler personagens maduros). também acabei gostando muito da personalidade da jazmine, extremamente fiel a si mesma.