Author: Christina Lauren
Year published: 2024
Category: Adult fiction (romance)
Pages: 352 pages
Rating: 4 out of 5
Location: (my 2024 Google Reading map): USA (CA), Indonesia
Summary: Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways.
Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch.
Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents—his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.
But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.
Review: This book was a good one to read right after the heaviness of The Chestnut Men, which was so dark (and so good).
Here I am reviewing another romance that I really enjoyed. The trope was a new one for me: a marriage of convenience leads to real love (of course!). I actually know a few people in real life who got married to get married student housing in college so the initial premise isn't so far fetched for me. But, those people were at least dating and weren't strangers.
I really enjoyed reading the bits on the island. I mean, ultra wealthy people behaving badly? Bring it on. This made for some fun scenes as well as heart-achingly sad family scenes.
If you want a fun romance with some family drama, you'll enjoy this book.
Challenges for which this counts: none
No comments
Post a Comment