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Love Redesigned by Lauren Asher

6 reviews

worldofv33's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

My summary: Dahlia is a successful interior designer and had her own design show with her fiancé, Oliver, until he dumped her. In a haze of depression and an attempt to hide from the gossip reporters, Dahlia returns to her hometown. And—of course—the first person she runs into is Julian, her rival since childhood and her first love. Julian is a billionaire after designing an app with his cousin and runs his late father’s construction business. Dahlia and Julian have barely spoken since Julian pushed Dahlia away when he dropped out of Stanford to move back home after his dad’s unexpected death, especially once Dahlia ended up dating his ex-roommate, Oliver. Since Dahlia’s and Julian’s mothers are best friends, Julian and Dahlia find themselves forced to be around each other. With everything being a competition between them, Julian and Dahlia teaming up on a renovation may just make them or break them as they both confront their deeply buried feelings for each other.

My thoughts: I immediately liked this book right off the bat. This was my first book by Lauren Asher and my only regret is not finding her sooner. I enjoyed the little details in the book like the designs at the start of the chapters—construction for his and design for hers. My Spanish isn’t great so I appreciated the translations right there at the bottom of the page. Overall I found it to be a very swoony, steamy, happy-ending romance. I love the billionaire, small town, and enemies-to-lovers tropes and this combined all three perfectly in a satisfyingly slow burn. I did buy the book but it’s also on Kindle Unlimited, so I loved that I could switch between both mediums and continue on my Kindle app when I was out and about with a few minutes to spare here and there.

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense 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

5.0

Tropes & Themes

Small town
Billionaire romance
Childhood rivals to lovers
Friends with benefits
Second chance
Carpenter x interior designer
One bed
Witty banter
Mexican-American FMC & MMC
Infertility/genetic illness struggles
Mental health rep (anxiety & depression)
Dead dad trauma

Spice:
Medium (4+ explict scenes)

My Thoughts:
To absolutely no one's shock, I loved yet another Lauren Asher book.

I took me a second to warm up the Dahlia but I ended up loving her. I really liked seeing not only anxiety and depression representation that was realistic and non-stigmatizing, but also infertility/genetic illness talked about. That's not super common in contemporary romance. I really admired her strength in healing from what Oliver did to her, as well as accepting that she'll always struggle with mental illness. Sometimes it iz what it iz. Anxiety and major depression gang ✌🏻😘

I also loved Julian of course. I too, am a petty and spiteful asshole. I loved seeing his growth and journey learning to be emotionally vulnerable. I also really appreciated seeing a MMC that was adamant about adopting and that adoptive kids are no less part of their family (although conversations about the adoption industry are also very important).

That being said, I'm very excited for Rafe and Ellie's book. Fingers crossed book three will be Lorenzo and Lily 🤞🏻

Favourite Quote:

“Turns out I’d rather build a home with you than a thousand houses by myself.”

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queencard_lydia's review against another edition

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Made me realize I am not into boring slow burns.

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pages_of_sav's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Lauren Asher will never not be an author that I don’t love, I will genuinely read every book she ever writes 🥹

Love Redesigned was absolutely everything I expect from a Lauren book loveable and unique main characters, a plot that you can’t help but be curious about, and a romance that draws you in and makes you absolutely obsessed with the couple.

Dahlia & Julian were absolutely everything from the very beginning I loved them and was hooked on their every interaction, antagonistic, sweet, and especially the spïcy ones! (I was an absolutely blushing a few times 🫣)

These two have such an amazing story, childhood rivals, to friends, second chance, and well… I’ll leave some of their journey to whoever is reading this & looking for a reason to pick it up 🤭

The families were such an amazing part of this story, and I can’t wait to read more about them! 👀

Lauren genuinely doesn’t ever miss and I can’t wait for what she has in store for the rest of the Lakefront Billionaires! 🪻

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kat7794's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted slow-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

4.0

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