⭐⭐⭐ Was I hooked by that book? Somewhat. I was rooting for the small business community more than the star-crossed lovers.

BLURB

Julieta Campos is devoting all her time and effort into her unique Mexican restaurant. Along with the other business in the building, she is afraid of what having a new building owner is going to mean for all of them. Adding insult to injury, the new owner wants to open a Taco King in their special little corner of San Diego. Ramón Montez, the Taco King heir, is spearheading this new project on behalf of his father. He doesn’t foresee any hiccups, until he runs into Julieta, and she shows him how much better life can be.

MY THOUGHTS

Ramón and Julieta is a tale of forbidden love, a-la Shakespeare. They pursued a relationship despite all the obstacles in their way. Both had strong feelings of guilt, but they didn’t do anything about it for quite a long time. Plenty of important feelings and issues were pushed aside in a wait-and-see-what-happens pattern. Julieta made a decision that went against her principles, hoping that it would work out in the end. Ramón kept ignoring his father’s pushy and childish behavior until it was too late.

I enjoyed the interactions between Ramón and Julieta when they weren’t fighting over Ramón’s plans for the building. The writing veered into stilted territory at times, and for me there was a jarring difference between the overall tone of the book and when sex scenes happened. I was reading happily along and then some crude words suddenly popped up. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against these words, if they work in the context of the book. In this case, it just didn’t fit with the rest.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Genre: Contemporary Romance