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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
This was one of the selections for the Latinx Romance reading group within Bad Bitch Book Club
HOLY SHIT.
Those were literally my first words after listening to just the first little bit of this book. Steamy does not even begin to describe this book for me. I decided to listen to it and, let me tell you, I do not recommend listening to this around other people unless you want questions about why your entire face is RED and why you're breathing so erratically. Angelina Lopez definitely doesn't shy away from the sexy and we thank her for it.
I like the subversion of the billionaire trope - in this case, Roxanne is the gorgeous billionaire and Mateo is the one in need of money. Add on the fact that Mateo is royalty and this is like two tropes in one! Three, if you include the whole marriage of convenience thing.
I think Lopez did a great job writing these characters and their dialogues. I don't particularly like the idea that Roxanne can just buy herself a husband, but I think I came to terms with it by the end of the book. I couldn't stop listening and sweating and blushing and I'm looking forward to reading the next in this series!
HOLY SHIT.
Those were literally my first words after listening to just the first little bit of this book. Steamy does not even begin to describe this book for me. I decided to listen to it and, let me tell you, I do not recommend listening to this around other people unless you want questions about why your entire face is RED and why you're breathing so erratically. Angelina Lopez definitely doesn't shy away from the sexy and we thank her for it.
I like the subversion of the billionaire trope - in this case, Roxanne is the gorgeous billionaire and Mateo is the one in need of money. Add on the fact that Mateo is royalty and this is like two tropes in one! Three, if you include the whole marriage of convenience thing.
I think Lopez did a great job writing these characters and their dialogues. I don't particularly like the idea that Roxanne can just buy herself a husband, but I think I came to terms with it by the end of the book. I couldn't stop listening and sweating and blushing and I'm looking forward to reading the next in this series!
Review posted here: https://courtneyreadsromancesite.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/review-lush-money-filthy-rich-1-by-angelina-m-lopez/
Hello steam! This was a wild ride right out the gate and I was here for it! Roxanne is a billionaire businesswoman who wants a royal baby from Prince Mateo with no emotional engagement. Meanwhile said Prince needs Roxanne for her money to save his struggling wine kingdom. But this is not your typical marriage of convenience romance trope my friends.
This story had so many twists and the character development was A+. Oh and I can’t forget the steam... from chapter one there was
This story had so many twists and the character development was A+. Oh and I can’t forget the steam... from chapter one there was
I freaking loved this. It was steamy, there was royalty, there was a marriage of convenience...what's not to love? so excited for the sequel tbh!
This was my first time reading a marriage of convenience trope and I’ll definitely try another, but not because i lived this story. This book verged on being one of my first two star ratings but I bumped it up to a three because it mostly redeemed itself by the end. Aside from some problematic moments of intimacy where consent was a big gray area, my biggest issue was that it took way too long for me to feel any connection to either main character. By the end I really liked Roxanne, but I couldn’t say the same at the beginning. She was almost too unlikable to the point where i considered DNFing. I did enjoy the gender flipped power dynamics and the whole “successful despite our shitty parents” theme.
Gave this one four stars because the premise is boo-nanas and also everything I hate, and she made it WORK like Angelica Schuyler. Yes girl, I was completely on board with all the soap opera craziness. Also you can see from the get-go that no matter how much Mateo hates his situation, he is deeply into Roxanne as a person. Like!!
Lopez sucked me in at bedtime with her tale of a female billionaire who coerces a prince into a marriage of convenience, so if this review is a bit mushy, blame her: These hot characters, their fiery hate-to-love sexy times and Lopez's gorgeous writing kept me up way, way, way into the night for the best of reasons: At 2:00A, I bought and dove straight into the sequel!
This was a strong debut and I can't wait to see what Angelina Lopez writes next.
My honest review: this is a bleak book with characters who spend the first half of the story being quite hard to root for because of the unkind and sometimes cruel choices they make. The intimate scenes are hot, plentiful, and well-written throughout. The second half of the book is much more pleasurable to read.
My honest review: this is a bleak book with characters who spend the first half of the story being quite hard to root for because of the unkind and sometimes cruel choices they make. The intimate scenes are hot, plentiful, and well-written throughout. The second half of the book is much more pleasurable to read.
Novela debut de la autora. ¡Menudo debut!
Partimos de un matrimonio de conveniencia (uno de mis tropos favoritos del género) y la relación entre ambos avanza poco a poco a lo largo de cinco meses. Y es que, aunque en el contrato que firman ambos especifica que sólo se verán tres noches al mes, el tiempo que pasan juntos se va alargando más y más, permitiendo que ambos se vayan descubriendo el uno al otro más allá de su evidente atracción sexual.
Sé que esto no es algo que espere la autora, pero me he reído mucho (demasiado) con todo lo relacionado con el príncipe Mateo. El príncipe Mateo Ferdinand Juan Carlos de Esperanza y Santos, heredero del pequeño reino de Monte del Vino Real, situado en algún lugar de los Picos de Europa cerca de Cantabria (menciona Santander y los sobaos, aunque la autora decide utilizar ron para aromatizarlos).
Quiero decir, desde mi punto de vista como española es todo muy risible. Que conste que es evidente que la autora se ha documentado mucho y hay varias menciones a periódicos de tirada nacional, el rey se llama Felipe y la hermana de Mateo es Sofía, la variedad de uva que cultivan en su pequeño reino es una muy popular en España (tempranillo)... Pero me toca demasiado cerca de casa y me imagino a Mateo y compañía hablando castellano con un marcado acento a medio camino entre el asturiano y el cántabro y... Y una de sus amigas se llama María Louisa. ¡¡¡Louisa!!!
En fin... Roxane es de ascendencia mexicana y Mateo es... Mateo es español. Y hablan en español. Sólo que Mateo habla un español muy hispanoamericano, con muchas expresiones que son más propias de la costa americana del Atlántico que de la europea. Aunque el "joder" está bien presente a la hora de maldecir, cosa que le agradezco. Pero otras frases parecen sacadas directamente de Google translate como, por poner un ejemplo:
¿Dónde en el mundo está el príncipe del multimillonario? que no es más que una traducción literal de Where in the world is the billionaire's prince? y te saca de inmediato de la escena.
Pero bueno... Pelillos a la mar porque la evolución emocional de estos dos está muy bien llevada y las escenas de sexo son... Pues incendiarias. Hay que reconocer que los dos se vuelcan en cumplir el contrato :p
Partimos de un matrimonio de conveniencia (uno de mis tropos favoritos del género) y la relación entre ambos avanza poco a poco a lo largo de cinco meses. Y es que, aunque en el contrato que firman ambos especifica que sólo se verán tres noches al mes, el tiempo que pasan juntos se va alargando más y más, permitiendo que ambos se vayan descubriendo el uno al otro más allá de su evidente atracción sexual.
Sé que esto no es algo que espere la autora, pero me he reído mucho (demasiado) con todo lo relacionado con el príncipe Mateo. El príncipe Mateo Ferdinand Juan Carlos de Esperanza y Santos, heredero del pequeño reino de Monte del Vino Real, situado en algún lugar de los Picos de Europa cerca de Cantabria (menciona Santander y los sobaos, aunque la autora decide utilizar ron para aromatizarlos).
Quiero decir, desde mi punto de vista como española es todo muy risible. Que conste que es evidente que la autora se ha documentado mucho y hay varias menciones a periódicos de tirada nacional, el rey se llama Felipe y la hermana de Mateo es Sofía, la variedad de uva que cultivan en su pequeño reino es una muy popular en España (tempranillo)... Pero me toca demasiado cerca de casa y me imagino a Mateo y compañía hablando castellano con un marcado acento a medio camino entre el asturiano y el cántabro y... Y una de sus amigas se llama María Louisa. ¡¡¡Louisa!!!
En fin... Roxane es de ascendencia mexicana y Mateo es... Mateo es español. Y hablan en español. Sólo que Mateo habla un español muy hispanoamericano, con muchas expresiones que son más propias de la costa americana del Atlántico que de la europea. Aunque el "joder" está bien presente a la hora de maldecir, cosa que le agradezco. Pero otras frases parecen sacadas directamente de Google translate como, por poner un ejemplo:
¿Dónde en el mundo está el príncipe del multimillonario? que no es más que una traducción literal de Where in the world is the billionaire's prince? y te saca de inmediato de la escena.
Pero bueno... Pelillos a la mar porque la evolución emocional de estos dos está muy bien llevada y las escenas de sexo son... Pues incendiarias. Hay que reconocer que los dos se vuelcan en cumplir el contrato :p