I thought this was good, but I have a few gripes.
Her family sucked big time. I was begging her to go no contact with them at one point. The scene where she made up with her parents was really nice, but her brothers never apologized or admitted their guilt in making her life miserable. 
The book concludes without

her making up with her childhood best friend!

  Maybe Emily Henry has spoiled me, but I don't know how anyone can get their HAE without their best friend.
Speaking of friends, I wanted Liam to have better friends or more screen time with his friends. At one point he's in a mood and his friends

straight up, are like, "fuck you and your depressive episodes. We don't care enough about you to have an adult conversation about this."

Like 
I get he was mean to them first, but there is a better way to do that.

I really enjoyed this story from Natalie Caña. The characters are well developed and the story moves at a pace that is engaging and realistic.

She does a great job of keeping the characters authentic by mixing in Spanish words and phrases and explains them just enough that non-speakers understand the sentiment but it isn’t a literal translation. 

Liam and Camila’s relationship is supported with snippets of their past which helps to keep their growth throughout innovative and possible.

I’d love to know more about Killian and Papo. 

If you enjoy the enemies to lovers/ childhood friends trope, I would highly recommend you read this story! 

Funny, sweet, and a little bit sexy, this book tells the love story of two helplessly stubborn people. I loved the characters even when they were making complete asses of themselves and the plot, while ridiculous, was amusing. The grandparents were a riot - I wanted to meet these old men. Also, I think the writing style is really beautiful. I had a hard time putting this book down once I started it. 

This is this author’s debut publication and I must say she did a bang-up job. While I found the pacing a bit off (the beginning seemed slow, but the last half flew by), the emotions and connections were great. Her descriptions gave me a clear picture without being too wordy and the dialogue had a lovely flow.

Kamilah and Liam are both wonderful characters. Childhood best friends who grew apart through the years, they’ve still always been in each other’s lives. Their grandfathers have been best friends since their days in the military. While they lead separate lives, they still have always known what was going on in the others. But Liam has a humongous chip (or two, or three) on his shoulder and has pushed Kamilah away while also having deep feelings for her.

It surprised me a time or two when I went from loving Kamilah to being so upset with her. There is a lie, more accurately a “let’s hide the whole truth”, she tells Liam after they have resolved their past problems. That’s something I’m never a fan of, but that’s not why she upset me. Kamilah doesn’t always think about how her actions will affect those around her. She thinks she’s doing the right thing and helping everyone, but that’s not always the case. To be fair, her family can be quite harsh with her and it’s almost as if she has become this way to counteract their dismissal of her. I loved the way she was written because the author didn’t ignore Kamilah’s faults. Instead, she had her confronted with those faults and made her deal with them.

Of course, Liam has his faults too. Most having to do with childhood trauma. Even after he and Kamilah open up about wanting to be together, he often shuts down when his anxiety gets the best of him. I appreciate the mention of therapy and Liam’s grandfather admitting he didn’t handle Liam’s grief in the best way when Liam was younger.

I’m very much looking forward to more books in this series. I loved the cast of characters and there are many to work with. If this author can build on the solid foundation she seems to already have, I see many good things in her future. 

I loved this book. I especially loved the audiobook. I think the narrator did an amazing job with the accents and getting the Spanish right (and I am super picky about that). She truly brought the book to life for me. The author also did an amazing job of setting the book, and truly making me feel like I was in Chicago and like I knew these people. I liked the side characters, especially the meddling grandpas, but I did not like Kamilah's relationship with her family and how it was resolved. *spoilers* Although I do think Kamilah had some blame on how the family saw her and what she did to her friend, which was never resolved by the way, I think that her family was also in the wrong. Her actions and lack of communication were in direct response to how they treated her, so I am still angry that she was the only one who had to apologize and was treated like the bad guy when everyone in her family had some blame. I hated how they talked to her throughout the book, so the fact that the family did not take real responsibility for how they treated her really pissed me off. If anything, the only one who was not at fault at all was her friend who did not get to go to Paris because of her. *end spoilers*

I was also a bit disappointed by the heat level considering I saw it advertised as spicy all over the place, but we only really get one sex scene that is cut short right as they are getting to the main act. It felt so abrupt considering how sexy and explicit the scene had been up to that point. I felt kind of cheated. 

Overall, I really liked this book and this characters and I hope we get to see them again in future books because I want to see what happened with her friends. 

CW: parental abandonment, grandfather with terminal cancer, death of parent by sacrificing himself in boating accident (flashback), death of grandmother off page

Loved the PR rep and Kamilah + Liam. I just wish the third part of this book had been written differently. Kamilah’s family is toxic af though :/ 

I liked how fleshed out the characters were, I liked how laugh out loud funny it was, I liked the second chance romance aspect, I liked the pumpkin patch scene, and although it makes my heart hurt (and I hope it gets resolved later on if this turns into a series) I like the realistic aspect of what happened with Sofi. I liked the heart and culture and FOOD behind this book. Really enjoyable read!