Paradise Key Resort holds the best and the worst of Sofía Vargas’s adolescent memories of love and heartbreak. Now, she hopes to wipe the slate clean and boost her career from resort manager to owner by winning a quirky town contest. But when an old flame throws his hat into the ring, Sofía realizes that protecting her heart will be the biggest challenge.
Nathan Patrick Hamilton III has played the part of the good son all his life with one exception—indulging in a secret on again-off again relationship with Sofia in high school and college, knowing that family duty would eventually tear them apart.
Years later, Nathan feels like he finally has a chance to win back the girl of his dreams and right the way he wronged her. But Sofía doesn’t trust or forgive easily and it’s going to take more than kooky town hall meetings, an emergency trip back to Key West, stolen kisses and a re-creation of their first date, for him to even be in the running. Is the ultimate prize the resort or winning back Sofía's heart?
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Resort to Love is a second chance romance between Nate and Sof, who were friends with benefits for years but decided to call it off. Now they meet again in circumstances that are affecting both of their lives. The first thing I have to say is that if you're in the Northern Hemisphere, you NEED to read this book during the summer. It has the perfect atmosphere to make you feel like you're in a paradise in this small town. Priscilla Oliveras is incredible at descriptions and here you're transported to wherever she wants you to go.
We also meet two very driven and ambitious characters, who come from very different backgrounds, who made mistakes but who, even after all these years, obviously love each other. We get to spend most of the book following their second opportunity at their love story and you feel like you're getting to see all of their past history and how it intertwines with the present and you're rooting for them the entire time. My favourite thing about this book is the Latinx heritage that so many of these characters have. I adore the sense of familia that is incorporated all through the book and how much it feels like it's true to Latinx sense of family, even if it's not the one you're born in, but mostly the one you choose... and choose again, even (and specially) through the difficult times. I adore the group of friends Sof has and that makes me want to immediately pick up the rest of the series! I loved how it felt realistic, how she sometimes spoke to all of them at once, but sometimes she had one on one because in real life you're not speaking with your entire group of friends all the time. You have different types of relationships with different people. And I specially adored how Nate fit into the group and how he slowly became part of Sof's familia again.
This book was so special to me. Though the thing that bothered me (and I know it's a very particular thing) is that sometimes the Spanish was translated literally. I like when Priscilla rephrases the sentence because otherwise in my head it sounds like I'm reading the same thing twice (I'm bilingual by the way). It's not something that I would particularly change, because I know it's good for non-Spanish speakers, but to me it stopped the flow of the narration. But other than that, I enjoyed this book a LOT and I gave it 4.25 stars!
We also meet two very driven and ambitious characters, who come from very different backgrounds, who made mistakes but who, even after all these years, obviously love each other. We get to spend most of the book following their second opportunity at their love story and you feel like you're getting to see all of their past history and how it intertwines with the present and you're rooting for them the entire time. My favourite thing about this book is the Latinx heritage that so many of these characters have. I adore the sense of familia that is incorporated all through the book and how much it feels like it's true to Latinx sense of family, even if it's not the one you're born in, but mostly the one you choose... and choose again, even (and specially) through the difficult times. I adore the group of friends Sof has and that makes me want to immediately pick up the rest of the series! I loved how it felt realistic, how she sometimes spoke to all of them at once, but sometimes she had one on one because in real life you're not speaking with your entire group of friends all the time. You have different types of relationships with different people. And I specially adored how Nate fit into the group and how he slowly became part of Sof's familia again.
This book was so special to me. Though the thing that bothered me (and I know it's a very particular thing) is that sometimes the Spanish was translated literally. I like when Priscilla rephrases the sentence because otherwise in my head it sounds like I'm reading the same thing twice (I'm bilingual by the way). It's not something that I would particularly change, because I know it's good for non-Spanish speakers, but to me it stopped the flow of the narration. But other than that, I enjoyed this book a LOT and I gave it 4.25 stars!
