The Spanish Deception

Book number 52 of the year was The Spanish Deception by Elena Armas. This is another big Tiktok favourite, so, did it live up to the hype?

A sort of summary

Catalina desperately needs a date to her sisters wedding, a date she may have fibbed about existing in a panic after she finds out her already-engaged ex will be there. When she laments to her best friend about her predicament, who not only overhears but then, astonishingly, offers to be her date? Erin Blackford, arch enemy number one in her company. Obviously, this is a crazy offer and Catalina doesn’t take him up on it… at first. As the wedding draws closer and she becomes desperate, they reach a deal. She will attend a big charity event with Erin, if he agrees to be her date at the wedding. Oh and also, he must convincingly act completely besotted by her and as though he’s her long term boyfriend, not just a date. Except, at the wedding he’s a little too convincing and Catalina finds the line between fake and real blurring as he begins to change her opinion on him as her arch nemesis.

What did I think?

So, firstly, I listened to this book as an audio and I think my only criticism of that is the narrator did not have a European Spanish accent, she used a Latino style Spanish accent. Given that a large part of Lina’s identity is her European/ Spanish roots, this seemed an odd thing to miss.

I found the start of this book very slow but I really enjoyed it once the story got going. It’s cute, Erin’s devotion is blindingly obvious and it does start to get frustrating the MC doesn’t see it, I’m not a huge fan of the miscommunication trope though so this may just be personal preference. This spice in this is very low but there’s lot of fun simmering, tense moments. I liked all the little touches with Lina’s family and I liked her personality, she had a lot more character than some FMC’s do in these kind of books.

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