ROMeANTICALLY CHALLENGED by Marina Adair

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RomNtically challenge. Too much profanity! I do not recommend this book.

Ended up good. I struggle with the entire first half. I felt it dragged quite a bit. But the last third to half brought me in. I was emotionally attached snd felt for Anh and Emmit. I’m only giving three stars because of the first half and because I struggled with picturing what the author wrote. Like talking about A covering them up and snoring at the same time. There were lots of little contradictory things that just jumbled the picture in my head. It was distracting even when I was crying for these characters.

Loved It. I loved this book, the banter between characters and the raw emotions they feel. I couldn’t put this down! Cannot wait to read book number 2!

The title intrigued me and didn’t disappoint. This story was the perfect balance of romance and drama. It kept me interested, crying and at some point... turned on! Love it

Fun and heartwarming read!. Thoroughly enjoyed reading the story of Ahn and Emmitt. Unexpectedly shed a few tears along the way.

Sweet, Honest and Funny!. Hooray for this wonderful start to this new series by Marina Adair! This book evoked so many emotions in me and I really enjoyed it. I laughed, I cried, I swooned, and felt all of the feelings I love to catch in a good romance book. It’s a sweet, emotional, honest, funny, frustrating and very thoughtful story that is about so much more than two people falling in love. In fact that takes quite some time and is probably one of the slowest burns I’ve ever read, but it honestly fit so well with the situation. Anh Ni or Annie as she goes by and Emmitt butt heads almost from the instant they meet but you know what they say about that fine line. Anh struggles with fitting in as a Vietnamese woman who was raised by a white family in the US and being estranged from her culture. She has also just been dumped by her fiancé. Emmitt struggles for a place in his daughter Paisley’s world/heart because he hardly ever sees her due traveling for his job and feels like he is competing with the two other father figures in her life after the death of her mom. With seemingly nothing in common on the surface, watching these two extremely complex people navigate through the day to day and all the challenges thrown at them was an absolute joy to read! I look forward to more in this new series set in a fictional town in RI.

RomeAntically Challenged. I liked how this book explored transracial identity and unlearning toxic masculine behaviors. Research is evident in the writing and the author takes the time needed to really develop characters that readers can empathize with. Beckett’s Grumpy Cat shirt is a mood and I need it. However, I did notice a few important typos and the text images weren’t formatted with dark mode in mind, despite it being a common feature of eBook apps. I wish Annie wasn’t attracted to Emmitt until after he stopped being toxic so it’d feel more authentic and less cliche. Also, Annie went to med school and understands relational power dynamics and the importance of communication, but for some reason thought simply going to a pot luck would magically fill the void within, not understanding that reclaiming her cultural heritage is a huge learning endeavor, and wasn’t already learning Vietnamese despite wanting to in this age of internet and smartphones. It is also worth noting that the whole “Chinese isn’t a language” is misleading, and a lot more complicated. Whether you consider it a language or not depends on how you define or differentiate language and dialect when there is no hard and fast definition, which would entail at least a surface level understanding of differences and similarities between languages/dialects and their written language, which would likely not be considered “common knowledge” and thus justify ignorance. I.e. Cantonese and Mandarin are considered by some to be dialects because they share a written language, Chinese, whereas others consider them separate languages because they’re phonetically very different, and still others who believe Chinese isn’t a language because it isn’t spoken, completely ignoring the existence of sign language. The list goes on and ultimately boils down to semantics. It is also my experience that asking if someone speaks Chinese isn’t weird, and whether they’re referring to Mandarin, Cantonese, either or, Toisanese etc is determined by context. I’ve been asked most if I “speak Chinese” by Chinese, often but not always because English is their second language, and I say all this as a product of Chinese diaspora who also struggled with their cultural identity and has been misidentified more than once, like Annie. Evidently enough this whole thing is highly variable from person to person and place to place. The stereotyping though was definitely ignorance.

Great. Unexpected twist and turn

Wow!. I could relate tontheain character's feelings of being out of place. The author touched on this with great perception and sensitivity. The story was wonderful and the characters realistic. What a wonderful love story.

Everything I Hoped For. I loved every second of this book. The characters are interesting and well-developed. I had to put the book down in order to get sleep and go to work and the whole day was excruciating. All I wanted to do was rush home and finish reading. Then once I finished the book, I just wanted more. I am so excited that this is going to be a series. I fell in love with the characters and I fell in love with this little town and I cannot wait to see how things play out for the secondary character as the series goes on. I loved Adair's writing style, it was easy to get lost in the story from the first chapter. I felt the highs and the lows, the fun and the heartbreak all so strongly. My favorite thing about this genre is that you know the characters are going to get their happy endings, but there is real heartache in this story, real issues that these characters are dealing with and working hard to resolve. There were a few times the book got thrown across the room, which to me, is the ultimate sign of a great novel.

Romeantically Challenged by Marina Adair. Romeantically Challenged by Marina Adair A Contemporary romance with so much heart. Finding “their person” is such a romantic concept. This novel filled me with joy. Ok, some tears and frustration as the story progressed but I tend to read slower the more I like a story. I really wanted to just stop at 80% and revel in the gooey feelings. But, of course, conflicts still needed to be resolved and men have to freak about something. It was so worth reading to the end. Absolutely loved this book and couple. Implied sentimentality. It melted my heart. “Right now he needed someone to listen, so she took his hand, which was like holding melting ice, and without hesitation, his fingers laced with hers.” I received a copy of this book from NetGalley. I also purchased a copy to share.

Romentically Challenged. First time reading this author and I went by the ratings. Glad I did, because I enjoyed reading about all the characters in this book, would have really enjoyed for the book not to have ended.

Good s as and very best👍👍👍. Good

Make Shift Family. Where to start...Marina Adair is a MASTER with combing words and emotions! You’re laughing one minute with Annie and Emmitt’s banter, then totally crushed because Emmitt is sooo lost. The despair is palatable. Like Annie, he doesn’t feel as though he belongs in his own family. He is loved, but feels as though he’s on the outside looking in. Annie, having been adopted at birth, also KNEW she was loved—although not always supported by her parents. She just didn’t know how and where she fit in. She was Vietnamese raised by white parents. When she was around other Vietnamese, she was treated as though she didn’t belong. She spoke, knew very little of her native language or dishes and was considered too Americanized. But she didn’t quite fit in with other American girls either. Annie was also unlucky in love. She always ended up choosing the guys who found their “soulmates” immediately after or while she was dating them. She longed for a feeling of belonging and only wanted someone to love the real her—without her changing who she was. So, Annie accepts a position to work in a hospital in Rome—thinking it’s Rome, Italy. Its’ not! But what she finds there may be all she ever dreamed of and more... Emmitt, an investigative photojournalist, was the “fun, cool dad”. He was always leaving for the next “big” story, until he was almost killed while on assignment. Forced to take time off, Emmitt returns to his hometown of Rome, Rhode Island. There he finds, who he believes is a squatter, a woman living in his home. Come to find out, his family rented out his home without his knowledge. Emmitt doesn’t have the heart to evict Annie, so he decides to make her life miserable in hopes that she’ll willingly leave. The more Emmitt gets to know Annie, the more fascinated he is with her. Sure, he’d like to sleep with her, but he finds he truly enjoys her company. Loved, loved, loved this story! Very realistic and relatable. Emotions were all over the place. I’m a nurse and loved how the charge nurse stood up for Annie, then accepted her into her little group while still giving her a hard time. Emmitt and Chloe’s banter, Emmitt placing the recliner in front of her bedroom door...hilarious! I loved and hated Paisley’s surly attitude—very much in line with a true teenager who’s suffered great loss. The Three Men and a Baby (teenager) parallel was seen throughout the story. The “daily” dads were pretty tough on Emmitt, but they were also scared of losing Paisley. I also enjoyed reading Annie’s perspective on adoption as my nephews were adopted from birth. Highly enjoyable story! I read a gifted copy and all opinions stated are my own.

I Thoroughly Enjoyed!. I found the story so well written that I think I finished the book in 4 days. I just kept wanting to keep reading it. You just got to know the characters like family and couldn’t wait to see what happened next. Thank you!

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