The Spanish Love Deception: A Novel

Elena Armas

Nov 2021 · Spanish Love Deception Series Book 1 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A TikTok sensation, this rom-com about a young woman who agrees to fake date a colleague and bring him to her sister’s wedding has “everything you could want in a romance” (Helen Hoang, New York Times bestselling author).

Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows—including her ex and his fiancée—will be there and eager to meet him.

She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won’t be easy to fool.

Enter Aaron Blackford—her tall, handsome, condescending colleague—who surprisingly offers to step in. She’d rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man.

But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office.

Ratings and reviews

I stopped reading after a quarter of the way through. The story is not interesting and the characters are not that complex. Imagine someone describing a mostly pedestrian life centered around personal events. That's all this book is. The main character is going through a minor life crisis compounded by inconveniently timed events out of her control. There is nothing heart wrenching or spell binding in the plot. The author's style of writing is not captivating in any way.

The writing isn't good. The heroine was annoying AF. The story was about 200 pages too long. And there was so much repetition you had to wonder if an editor was involved. I'm not sure what the hype was about.

oh my god the way im sO tired the way the female lead thinks, like this book can be squeeze to 200 pages without her doubts trait

About the author

Elena Armas is a Spanish writer, self-confessed hopeless romantic, and proud book hoarder. Now, she’s also the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Spanish Love Deception, The American Roommate Experiment, and The Long Game. Her books are being translated to over thirty languages—which is bananas, if you ask her.