HUGE thank you to Netgalley and Kensington Publishing Group for an advanced copy of ROMeANTICALLY CHALLENGED. I received this free advanced reader copy in exchange for my honest review!
Annie (Anh Nhi) gets dumped by her fiance and decides on a whim to leave her home in Hartford, Connecticut and travel to Rome for work as a physician’s assistant. To her surprise she ends up in Rome, Rhode Island but still decides to stay because at least she isn’t home. Home, by the way, where her ex-fiance is getting married in her wedding venue on her wedding date. Oh, there’s some drama here for sure.
Annie ends up living in Emmitt’s house, which gets rented out when he’s out of town for work. He comes home unexpectedly and Annie now has a roommate. It’s quite comical watching their relationship bloom. Both are holding their own and refuse to leave the house. Both don’t realize how much they need each other either…
This is your typical frenemies to lovers tale. I will admit, at first this book had a hard time keeping my attention. The writing seemed a little over the place and sometimes I had a hard time following. There were times when characters were mentioned, but they weren’t in the scene…it was just confusing. Eventually I got used to the writing style and stuck with it.
Like any frenemies story, I had to see it through the ending (despite the fact we all know how it ends, haha) and I’m glad I did. It ended up being a nice, quick enjoyable read overall.
3 stars. It’s nothing to write home about, but a great book to fill some time in. I did enjoy Annie and Emmitt and their story. I also enjoyed the second story in this book, Annie trying to fit in (she was adopted from Vietnam and raised by two white parents and never felt she fit in anywhere). It was nice to follow a frenemy story, as well as one of self-finding. This book is due out July 28th!
Title: ROMeANTICALLY CHALLENGED
Author: Marina Adair
Genre(s): Fiction, Chick Lit, Romance
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Release Date: July 28, 2020
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