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The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

Mariana Zapata

Start date: March 10, 2016

Finish date: March 31, 2016

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Jul 24, 2021 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: athlete

I knew going in this was a slow burn, but this wasn’t slow it was pretty much non existent. If I didn’t like the characters I’d rate lower, because for romance books with no romance to work there needs to be something else going on, but basically what this book is, is just two people going about their day. What they eat, wear etc. Every time something interesting was about to happen, the scene stopped. It was then rehashed the next day by thinking about it or talking about it. Not my favorite ap ...more

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Oct 10, 2018 Marion rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobook, ya-na, free-reads, favourite-author, read-in-2018, hurt-comfort, all-time-favorite, jock-shelf, m-f-book, re-read

2018, Book, 5 Stars!
2020, Audiobook, 5 Stars!
2024, Audiobook, 5 Stars!

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Sep 14, 2020 Mony rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I like it even more with every re-read. :)
5+ stars

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Feb 12, 2018 Suzanne rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favourites

Wow, talk about a slow burn romance! I loved it and couldn’t stop reading.

Great characters with lots of laughs. They started as boss and employee who just barely tolerated each other. Then they eventually became friends and without even realizing it, they became more. So good!

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Oct 27, 2018 ✨ tweety ✨ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-italian, romance, contemporary-romance, enemies-to-lovers, new-adult, slow-romance, 2018

Let's start with saying that I've always wanted to read this author but insisted that I had to wait until her books would be released in my country so I could buy a paperback and not a Kindle version of it. Last June this book was finally published and I had a hard time finding it, but I finally did. I read it in a stressful moment of my life and it happened to be a good distraction from life.

The title of this book reminds me of a title of a movie, and I feel like the intent of the author was to Let's start with saying that I've always wanted to read this author but insisted that I had to wait until her books would be released in my country so I could buy a paperback and not a Kindle version of it. Last June this book was finally published and I had a hard time finding it, but I finally did. I read it in a stressful moment of my life and it happened to be a good distraction from life.

The title of this book reminds me of a title of a movie, and I feel like the intent of the author was to tell the story in a cinematic way. The scenes were written in a way that our main female protagonist and only storyteller, Vanessa, would reveal us things but also leave some other things for us to find out in the right moment. Maybe in some parts her way to tell the reader what was happening was too much like a diary and it seemed as if she was talking too much without any progress, but in the end besides some parts that I would have cut of this "inner dialogue", everything fell into place despite we only got Vanessa's POV.

I didn't find it an issue that we only have the main female character telling the story. I'm usually not picky about the POV, as long as I like the story. I read some reviews with people complaining that they needed Aiden's side of the story to understand how and when he fell for Vanessa, but I think it's not necessary because you can see these signs if you read the story carefully. (view spoiler) Perhaps this story was not for you. Since this is a slow-burn kind of book, it was normal that the "signs" of love would appear much later. But this is why I liked this book. It didn't contain insta-love and the progress between the couple has a steady, believable pace, and not the usual contemporary romance pace when after one chapter the two MCs are already in love and want to have sex. So if you like a story with a long development and that is built step by step, moment by moment, this one doesn't disappoint. Or at least, it didn't disappoint me because it also didn't fall into boring cliches of CR books. There were a lot of pages and I wanted even more, but I think that the closure of this book was perfect and every end was tied in the epilogue.

I can't wait to read the book about Vanessa's bff Diana and I have no idea if the author has the intention or has already written a book about Zac. I think it would be funny. ...more

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