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Hello, welcome to another book review! This is a long lover due review as I read this back in March. But uni took priority recently but now I am a few weeks away from finishing, I finally am making more time for my little blog. As always I am attempting to keep this spoiler free, if I have slipped up I do apologise but it is not intentional at all – I am not a huge fan of spoiler reviews myself. While working on a group project and two final assignments for modules I started reading the lakefront billionaires series! I have read the first two (Love rewritten will be quickly following this one) but have saved the final one for an exciting flight I have coming up!
I have enjoyed every Lauren Asher book I have read from the Dreamland Billionaires series to the dirty air series as well as her Christmas novella My December Darling. I think I read this book spread over a week-ish including listening to the audiobook in the car (yes i love audiobooks and immersive reading… if I have the time).
About the Book
First in the Lakefront Billionaires series, Love Redesigned is set in Lake Wisteria and follows Dahlia Muñoz (interior designer) and Julian Lopez (CEO of a construction company). It is a story of old family friends turned to childhood rivals forced to collaborate on a project after Dahlia returns to her hometown after a heart-breaking reason pulled her back home. The small town romance has additional tropes of forced proximity, he falls first and only one bed. I loved their dynamic as their insulting-turned-flirting to each other! It was constantly gripping with their individual character plots help shape their relationship as well as themselves.
My Rating and Why
I didn’t give the book 5* as I often give them to most books I read so trying to save them for my all time favourite books. That’s pretty much the only reason this book sits at 4*s… just wasn’t life changing book for me. The writing was fantastic, character developments both the MMC and FMC as well as the secondary characters that are focal points in the other two books.
As those who know, Lauren Asher includes spicy writing in her romance novels. Lauren always has a good balance of spice, romance and plot that makes it an easy read you don’t want to put down. I have always enjoyed billionaire tropes as it keeps the books unrealistic but still relatable to keep the imagination alive. And with Lauren Asher, as well as Ana Huang, both include real themes and keep them real, sensitive and included real life struggles that make people feel seen or helps people connect to characters more which I really enjoy reading (feel this a lot in the second book).
Thank you so much for reading, apologies this is a shorter read, I think a few of my next ones will be too (just finished my last year at uni and spent the last few weeks typing thousands of words for projects and assignments!). But please post some book recommendations in the comments, getting back into my reading and would like some inspiration! Thinking of reading the off-campus series after this series before I watch the series! Also please let me know if this was a useful review to you and if not how to improve! I always like to be helpful where I can.
Please enjoy the rest of your time here. You are always welcome here.
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