readwatchcrochet 's review for:

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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Layered story that is the ultimate slow burn.  

📚forced proximity

📚marriage of convenience 
📚 football player x ex assistant
📚 grumpy x sunshine
📚one bed

📚 single POV

📚 slowww burn
📚 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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