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A review by technicallyaly
The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
emotional
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
3.75
i was really loving this at first and then it got really bad really quickly. something about that last 10% did not work for me.
scattered thoughts, both positive and negative, in no particular order:
- the dialogue is really cheesy throughout (i loved it in the beginning (like hello this is exactly what i signed up for) but it was a bit exhausting by the end)
- love lina's family + their dynamic, very relatable.
- loved the spanish throughout, i thought it was done v well
- i usually hate the third act break-up but i thought this one made so much sense -- of Course she'd have anxiety about a workplace romance after what she's been through. i don't think she was being unreasonable at all. if he had communicated better and told her he already talked to HR, things would be different. but he didn't. so.
- aaron is a bad communicator and it drove me insane. i don't care that lina twists his words and overthinks and hears double meanings in this words -- at least that's interesting. he just has some cryptic line here or there and then suddenly launches into love declarations and cringe dirty talk. the leap was bizarre.
- i hate "baby" as a petname. it just squicks me. babe is better, sweetheart / love is fine, but 'baby' just gives me the ick. and aaron said it So Much.
- if i did math correctly, lina was 19 and daniel was 31. i want him dead. gerald too. fuck the both of them.
anyway. 3.75 stars bc i could not put it down, even when i wanted to.
scattered thoughts, both positive and negative, in no particular order:
- the dialogue is really cheesy throughout (i loved it in the beginning (like hello this is exactly what i signed up for) but it was a bit exhausting by the end)
- love lina's family + their dynamic, very relatable.
- loved the spanish throughout, i thought it was done v well
- i usually hate the third act break-up but i thought this one made so much sense -- of Course she'd have anxiety about a workplace romance after what she's been through. i don't think she was being unreasonable at all. if he had communicated better and told her he already talked to HR, things would be different. but he didn't. so.
- aaron is a bad communicator and it drove me insane. i don't care that lina twists his words and overthinks and hears double meanings in this words -- at least that's interesting. he just has some cryptic line here or there and then suddenly launches into love declarations and cringe dirty talk. the leap was bizarre.
- i hate "baby" as a petname. it just squicks me. babe is better, sweetheart / love is fine, but 'baby' just gives me the ick. and aaron said it So Much.
- if i did math correctly, lina was 19 and daniel was 31. i want him dead. gerald too. fuck the both of them.
anyway. 3.75 stars bc i could not put it down, even when i wanted to.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Sexism
Minor: Cancer