With only one month until Hate Crush is released, I am thrilled to share with you the following review from the American Library Association's Booklist, which I received like a Christmas Eve present last week:
“Lopez once again delivers an addictively readable mix of red-hot romance, captivating characters, and a fascinatingly exotic European setting.”
Hate Crush was the first book I wrote under contract, the first book I wrote on deadline, the first book I wrote with the official title of "published author" after waiting my whole life to have that title!
Hate Crush is the second child that you never imagined could be as gorgeous as the first. And then she/he is!!!!!
Hate Crush was born from the idea that our beautiful young princess in Lush Money, Princesa Sofia, was bitter about love. Why, I asked myself? Because she's already had her heart stomped on. Hate Crush is about the hard work of falling back in love when you've sworn you'll never fall in love again.
It's also about the hard work the heart-stomper must do to make amends. Down-on-his-luck rock star Aish Salinger (it's pronounced Āsh) regrets breaking her heart when they were 19 and 21, and always hoped to get her back. But when he comes to the Monte del Vino Real ten years later to help Sofia launch her new winery and secure the future of the kingdom, he realizes making amends is going to be much harder than he imagined.
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