Of course the title of this made me think of a movie, and the two are not the same at all. But this book was a lot of fun! I loved this enemy to lovers/fake dating story! While this was a little bit longer, almost 400 pages, it read smoothly and really didn’t drag at all. The characters had great chemistry, or fireworks you might say with all the explosive arguments turned to to steamy loving times. Now the author doesn’t go real in detail in those scenes, but you do know what they are doing and it isn’t necessarily fade to black.

The whole setting was beautiful. A castle on Lake Como in Italy. Who wouldn’t want to visit, let alone be hired to work there and live there and take care of it? And all of the characters were wonderful, not only our couple of Anna and Jake, but their family and all of the people in the little village where they lived.

Anna was someone that it wasn’t hard to see who she was. While at times it was frustrating to have her take things a certain way, it was understandable with what her experiences has shown her. And then there was Jake. It was also frustrating how often he assumed people, often Anna, were referring or making comments based on his time in prison. But like with her, it was understandable based on how he’d been treated.

Their fake relationship becoming friendship and then leading to more followed the perfect path, both logical, realistic, while at the same time romantic and fun to read. I’ll definitely look into reading other books by this author in the future. And, looping back to my thought at the beginning of my review about the movie by the same name, while I thought there might be more references to that in the book, there was one towards the end that I was pleased to see.

Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.