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Luna and the Lie by Mariana Zapata
3.0

Luna loves her job and is a happy-go-lucky person which is a surprise considering the tough upbringing she had as a child and the fact she has been fending herself since she was 18, and pretty much raised her three younger sisters by herself. Luna has avoided relationships but harbors a secret crush on her older boss Rip, who is gruff and cold. But as things begin to go wrong in Luna's life, she begins to see a warmer side of Rip as he becomes the person she can depend on.

This is a really slow burn romance which is Mariana Zapata's forte but when I say slow burn, I mean sloowwwwwww burn. I really liked the build-up of the romance between Luna and Rip and I like that they already had a bit of a past, having worked together for a few years. They both also had secrets they were keeping hidden about their pasts, and there was a lot of similarities between them while also being enough differences that the interactions between them were fun to watch.

Luna is a lovely character but there were times she seemed a bit unbelievable considering all the crap going on in her life, and how badly literally everyone in her life treated her. It was really hard reading about how her sisters just walked all over her and treated her so, so badly. And frustrating that Luna always just let things lie and never seemed to stand up to herself properly.

There's a large enough age gap between Luna and Rip which some people may not like but I didn't mind. I did have a little bit of a problem with the romance which is more so just that Rip is not my type of guy. When I'm reading romance, I like to have the warm and fuzzies about the main love interest and I didn't really find this with Rip EXCEPT when he called Luna 'baby girl' which made me melt into my socks.

I liked this book but there were times it was very, very slow and the romance literally doesn't actually happen till about 95% into the story.