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S'està carregant… After hours on Milagro Street (edició 2022)de Angelina M. Lopez
Informació de l'obraAfter Hours on Milagro Street de Angelina M. Lopez
Book I read in 2023 (57) S'està carregant…
Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This book was so wonderful. Both Alex and Jerimiah broke my heart and then patched it all together again. I am crossing all my fingers that Lopez lets us return to the world of Milagro St. I want to spend as much time as I can in this world. ( ) This started off a bit rocky for me. Alex and Jeremiah have sex for the first time only a couple pages into the story, seconds after just barely exchanging names. It’s mostly a personal preference issue, there are plenty of readers out there who want things steamy as soon as possible so this should work for them, it’s just that I’m a slow burn romance kind of reader, I like some build up and this had none. This didn’t even allow me to get to know the characters let alone allow them to know one another or have time for any actual heat to ignite before she’s climbing on top of him, and afterwards she says truly terrible unprovoked things to him. To say that it didn’t feel like the beginning of a romance would be an understatement. Alex verbally bullied Jeremiah nearly every time they meet for the first third or so of the novel, she just seemed mean. It took me a solid chunk of time to reluctantly get on board with their developing relationship. My struggles with Alex’s cruelty were similar to the struggles I’ve felt with some of the more extreme alpha heroes in romances, where I question why I should want the heroine to end up with someone so awful, so I guess on the plus side, this flipped gender dynamics we’re accustomed to in some romance novels, however, like those relationships, part of me questions whether it’ll be truly happily ever after for a couple when one of them is so capable of bulldozing the other if things don’t go their way. Being purposely hurtful to someone who’s done nothing to deserve it is definitely a personality trait that doesn’t sit well with me, but there were other aspects of Alex’s character that I really did like, the way she stands up for herself and others, her personal style, and even though it wrapped up too quickly in the end, for a significant portion of the story I found Alex’s very strained relationship with her recovering alcoholic dad really compelling, I would have loved it had the novel dug into that even further. Overall, more family interractions (including Jeremiah, I loved his longing to be a part of Alex’s family) would have been welcome as the ones there were in this story, rate among my favorite moments of the novel, although admittedly, I’m still confused as to what else Alex thought her family could have done to fix a certain situation she got herself into as a teen, it did seem like of the two bad options presented to her parents, they went with the far more preferable one so I didn’t entirely understand Alex holding that against them when the other option would surely have been much more scarring. The other standout part of this read for me was cultural, learning about the railroad workers, families living in boxcars, etc., aspects of Latin history in America that I hadn’t known about. There’s something to be said for a book that simultaneously entertains and teaches, the author did a sound job of tying historical information into this fictional story without making it seem like research just being regurgitated onto the page. Title: After Hours on Milagro Street Author: Angelina M. Lopez Publisher: Carina Press & Carina Adores (Harlequin), Carina Trade Reviewed By: Arlena Dean Rating: Four Review: "After Hours: on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez My Assessment: "After Hours on Milagro Street' was quite a read full of secret family lineage, with hidden treasures, a haunted bar, love letters, and omg twists and turns all over the place' including some sexy moments from the two main stars [Alex and Jeremiah] of the story. This was an excellent Mexican-American cultural read of the Mexican immigrant experience... What will happen when Alex returns home to run her grandmother Loretta's bar? I enjoyed how this author gave the reader a good read of love and family along with a good mystery and magical realism weaved into the story, hurt, loss, pain, and less, not leaving out the romance. Be ready for some complex and realistic characters that brought quite an interest and even some dysfunction to this family story. Also, there will be 'racism, alcoholism, and mentions of an abortion [of the past]' from this read. Pick up this read to see how well this author brings it out to the reader, where you will find an alpha heroine, a big family, ghosts, and even some hot sexy sex scenes. Title: After Hours on Milagro Street Author: Angelina M. Lopez Publisher: Carina Press & Carina Adores (Harlequin), Carina Trade Reviewed By: Arlena Dean Rating: Four Revi"w: "After Hours: on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez My Assessment: "After Hours on Milagro Street' was quite a read full of secret family lineage, with hidden treasures, a haunted bar, love letters, and omg twists and turns all over the place' including some sexy moments from the two main stars [Alex and Jeremiah] of the story. This was an excellent Mexican-American cultural read of the Mexican immigrant experience... What will happen when Alex returns home to run her grandmothers Loretta's bar? I enjoyed how this author gave the reader a good read of love and family along with a good mystery and magical realism weaved into the story, hurt, loss, pain, and less, not leaving out the romance. Be ready for some complex and realistic characters that brought quite an interest and even some dysfunction to this family story. Also, there will be 'racism, alcoholism, and mentions of an abortion [of the past]' from this read. Pick up this read to see how well this author brings it out to the reader, where you will find an alpha heroine, a big family, ghosts, and even some hot sexy sex scenes. Thanks to NetGalley and Carina Press/Adores for the eARC in exchange for my honest review. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Opposites attract in this rivals-to-lovers romance from Lush Money author Angelina M. Lopez. Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The "poor handsome man." Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra "Alex" Torres turning Loretta's, her grandmother's bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family's admiration; she won't let him have the bar and building she needs to resurrect her career, too. Alex blowing into town has rocked Jeremiah to his mild-mannered core, but the large, boisterous Torres clan is everything he never had. He doesn't believe Alex has the best interest of her family, their community, or the bar's legacy in mind. To protect all three, he'll stand up to the tough and tattooed bartender with whom he now shares a bedroom wall--and resist the insta-lust they both feel. But when an old enemy threatens Loretta's and the surrounding neighborhood, Alex and Jeremiah must combine forces. It will take her might and his mind to save the home they both desperately need. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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