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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Layered story that is the ultimate slow burn.
📚forced proximity
📚marriage of convenience
📚 football player x ex assistant
📚 grumpy x sunshine
📚one bed
📚 football player x ex assistant
📚 grumpy x sunshine
📚one bed
📚 single POV
📚 slowww burn
📚 forhead kisses
📚 forhead kisses
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|Thoughts|
My first book by this author and the story did have me engaged. There were perhaps a few things that detracted from the story a little for me. Namely, the excessive internal monologue, felt like it slowed down the pace of scenes, where the FMC would contemplate life for two pages in the middle of a conversation.
Whilst I am all for the grumpy mmc secretly in love with his fake wife, I feel like it took a bit too long for him to actually overtly act like he was in love with her. Can anyone really be that oblivious to normal human behaviour?
“I’m not paying off your loans and buying you a have to have to put up with this…if I wanted someone to bag me, I would have gotten a real wife”
Did find both of their pasts interesting, know it may not be too realistic, but would have liked a little bit of closure or karma thrown at her family.
Not to say I didn’t enjoy reading this one because I did. Just found the grumpiness a bit too grumpy for my liking.
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challenging
emotional
hopeful
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
kinda almost cute BUT boring asf and for what? like what was the reason??? absolutely no need for it to drag on for so long only for them to realise they like each other in the last few pages
I like
only soft for her - Enemies to lovers
- Protective
- Strong woman
I don’t like
- Not enough physical tension before se*
- Need more thoughts from man
It was a really good slow burn but it feels like the end was really rushed
So I've heard through the grapevine that this book was slow-burning, and naturally, I expected that it will bore me to tears, and I will lose interest after flipping a few pages. Oh boy, was I totally mistaken!
The story progressed very slowly indeed. But to my surprise, it didn't bother me at all. The slow romance build-up was perfect. --> This, coming from an extremely impatient person with a very short attention span, who gets easily distracted by a hundred meaningless things (like suddenly being inspired to Google someone randomly) when in the middle of reading a book.
Reading The Wall of Winnipeg and Me felt like I was slowly unwrapping the best present I’ve ever received. The anticipation of taking my sweet time reading it, slowly untangling the story as it unfolds, and prolonging the excitement of discovering what the main characters truly feel for each other, makes getting my hands on the last page so much better.
This book is not the type that you rush in and read carelessly – it’s the kind that you need to savor, as the relationship between the male lead (Aiden) and female lead (Vanessa) takes time to build and you gradually appreciate its significance. This is the kind where you know they don't have to be together in the first 50 pages, and then have sex in the next few or so. They take it oh-so slowly, indulgently drawing out the romance, until I’m pulling the hair out of my head, begging and cursing, because I want it so bad.
I had lived through Vanessa - I felt her thinning patience towards Aiden (who is a demanding, cranky, perfectionist, workaholic, arrogant, aloof, clean freak of a boss) and I had the urge to flip a middle finger in front of his face a couple of times when he’s being a jackass (which was almost all of the time). Though I wouldn’t have blamed Vanessa for harboring a little crush on him despite him being an unappreciative prick - because who wouldn’t? We’re talking about The Wall of Winnipeg here. One look at the massive bulk of his ripped body and that perfect butt, and any woman would do a double-take.
I loved the fact that their relationship wasn’t developed overnight – they aren’t even friends at first and they merely tolerated each other. Bit by bit, I'd began to watch out for signs that Aiden actually cares for Vanessa, beneath that cold exterior. I appreciated all the subtle moments they shared (the late-night talks, watching Dragonball Z taped episodes, that scene while watching The Land Before Time, putting up Christmas decorations together) – all that felt so genuine. Aiden grew on me, and I’d seen how he had slowly grown to love Vanessa, and how he’d shown how important she is to him...in true Aiden fashion.
The closer I get to the last page, the slower I read, wanting to savor it all. So when they finally confess their feelings towards each other in the end, it was absolutely MIND-BLOWING. Goodness! I had the biggest shit-eating grin to prove it. I’ve waited for that moment in agony, it came, and I realized the long wait was completely worth it and felt a lot more meaningful.
Unsurprisingly, I now have a penchant for slow romances because of this book. I wouldn’t have trade this delicious slow burn of a book that made my heart flutter and got butterflies in my stomach for a hundred insta-love romances put together. I really wish I can go back to never having to read this, so that I can pick it up fresh again, and re-live every single moment (the pining, groveling, tension, uncertainty, and the realization that smacked both of the characters’ faces), if only to feel all the emotions over again that lead to that beautiful, priceless ending. It was unbelievably good!
The story progressed very slowly indeed. But to my surprise, it didn't bother me at all. The slow romance build-up was perfect. --> This, coming from an extremely impatient person with a very short attention span, who gets easily distracted by a hundred meaningless things (like suddenly being inspired to Google someone randomly) when in the middle of reading a book.
Reading The Wall of Winnipeg and Me felt like I was slowly unwrapping the best present I’ve ever received. The anticipation of taking my sweet time reading it, slowly untangling the story as it unfolds, and prolonging the excitement of discovering what the main characters truly feel for each other, makes getting my hands on the last page so much better.
This book is not the type that you rush in and read carelessly – it’s the kind that you need to savor, as the relationship between the male lead (Aiden) and female lead (Vanessa) takes time to build and you gradually appreciate its significance. This is the kind where you know they don't have to be together in the first 50 pages, and then have sex in the next few or so. They take it oh-so slowly, indulgently drawing out the romance, until I’m pulling the hair out of my head, begging and cursing, because I want it so bad.
I had lived through Vanessa - I felt her thinning patience towards Aiden (who is a demanding, cranky, perfectionist, workaholic, arrogant, aloof, clean freak of a boss) and I had the urge to flip a middle finger in front of his face a couple of times when he’s being a jackass (which was almost all of the time). Though I wouldn’t have blamed Vanessa for harboring a little crush on him despite him being an unappreciative prick - because who wouldn’t? We’re talking about The Wall of Winnipeg here. One look at the massive bulk of his ripped body and that perfect butt, and any woman would do a double-take.
I loved the fact that their relationship wasn’t developed overnight – they aren’t even friends at first and they merely tolerated each other. Bit by bit, I'd began to watch out for signs that Aiden actually cares for Vanessa, beneath that cold exterior. I appreciated all the subtle moments they shared (the late-night talks, watching Dragonball Z taped episodes, that scene while watching The Land Before Time, putting up Christmas decorations together) – all that felt so genuine. Aiden grew on me, and I’d seen how he had slowly grown to love Vanessa, and how he’d shown how important she is to him...in true Aiden fashion.
The closer I get to the last page, the slower I read, wanting to savor it all. So when they finally confess their feelings towards each other in the end, it was absolutely MIND-BLOWING. Goodness! I had the biggest shit-eating grin to prove it. I’ve waited for that moment in agony, it came, and I realized the long wait was completely worth it and felt a lot more meaningful.
Unsurprisingly, I now have a penchant for slow romances because of this book. I wouldn’t have trade this delicious slow burn of a book that made my heart flutter and got butterflies in my stomach for a hundred insta-love romances put together. I really wish I can go back to never having to read this, so that I can pick it up fresh again, and re-live every single moment (the pining, groveling, tension, uncertainty, and the realization that smacked both of the characters’ faces), if only to feel all the emotions over again that lead to that beautiful, priceless ending. It was unbelievably good!
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Sexual content
emotional
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
AHHHH Mariana zapata has me in a chokehold I seriously just read 670 pages of a slow burn when nothing happened until 97% through AND I ENJOYED EVERY SECOND OF IT