This is a millennial enemies to lovers romance for millennials, by a millennial.
Angela has an awesome boyfriend, an awesome job, and an even awesomer flat. That all changes when the pandemic hits. Suddenly, she looses her job and flat. Like every other millennial, she has to move back home. Until Colin Cooper, her attractive and annoying neighbor that she hates, offers for her to live in the spare room in his flat. Many tropes ensue, sometimes the narrator is a little self aware that they’re living in a romance novel, but that’s only because they eventually have to write a love story for Colin’s new narrative segment on his radio show.
I have to say that the author does a great job of setting up the main antagonist. In the very first interaction, I felt like I was assaulted by the story. I am not kidding. I wish I could put up the entire paragraph, but I don’t want to get in trouble with the publisher. Here’s a brief rundown: the main character, Angela, has not seen her boyfriend, Ben, in a while, when they finally meet, he runs up to her and rips her damp homemade sock mask off to literally suck her face. The author specifically uses the word ripped, and I honestly think that my fight or flight instincts were triggered.
From there, I’d like to move into the enemies to lovers. In the beginning, I thought, Surely not, they hate each other way too much. It feels like a deep visceral kind of hate too. Colin seemingly gets the ‘kid in middle school the hisses at everyone’ vibe from Angela because he doesn’t realize how annoying he is to have as an upstairs neighbor. And Angela simply has a hard time getting past his annoyingness, even though she eventually does, because he’s hot asf.
The story itself had a really rocky start, but I thought it was very cute and I felt deeply for all the characters.
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