Review: Love, in English by Karina Halle

5 stars for Love, in English by Karina Halle.

I am so glad to have picked up this book regardless of its cover which throws me off completely. So, never judge a book by it's cover!

First chapter in and I am totally hooked and utterly engaged in the story as told through the eyes of Vera Miles. The author weaves a beautiful story by building up Vera's internal emotional turmoil filled with immerse guilt and intense pain. The story setting is so real and yet so wrong. Still, I am really happy with the way it concludes.

Publisher: Metal Blonde Books
Publication date: 29 Apr 2014

*** Favorite quote 1 ***

Love, in English, is love...
Love in Spanish is you.

*** Favorite quote 2 ***

One minute we were a memory in the making, and in the next we were just a memory.

~ Love, in English
Karina Halle

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He’s thirty-eight. I’m twenty-three.

He speaks Spanish. I speak English.

He lives in Spain. I live in Canada.

He dresses in thousand-dollar suits. I’m covered in tattoos.

He’s married and has a five-year old daughter.

I’m single and can’t commit to anyone or anything.

Until now.Because when they say you can’t choose who you fall in love with, boy ain’t that the f*#king truth.

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To a restless dreamer like Vera Miles, it sounded like the experience of a lifetime. Instead of spending her summer interning for her astronomy major, she would fly to Spain where she’d spend a few weeks teaching conversational English to businessmen and women, all while enjoying free room and board at an isolated resort. But while Vera expected to get a tan, meet new people and stuff herself with wine and paella, she never expected to fall in love.

Mateo Casalles is unlike anyone Vera has ever known, let alone anyone she’s usually attracted to. While Vera is a pierced and tatted free spirit with a love for music and freedom, Mateo is a successful businessman from Madrid, all sharp suits and cocky Latino charm. Yet, as the weeks go on, the two grow increasingly close and their relationship changes from purely platonic to something…more.

Something that makes Vera feel alive for the first time.

Something that can never, ever be.

Or so she thinks.

*Blurb from author's website*

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