If We Ever Meet Again

 

If We Ever Meet Again
by Ana Huang
 
Book: If Love #1
Publisher: Bloom Books
Pub Date: 6/25/24
Genre: Adult, Romance
Format: Print
Source: Publisher
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One year is all it takes for strangers to become lovers...
 
19-year-old Farrah Lin is going to fall in love for the first time during her year abroad in Shanghai. She's sure of it.
 
The only problem? Her would-be leading man is her new friend’s boyfriend.
 
There’s nothing worse than being in love with someone you can’t have...or at least, she thinks it’s love.
 
But if that’s true, why can’t she stop fantasizing about someone else, specifically the cocky blond athlete with the world’s biggest ego (and greatest dimples)?

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Blake Ryan is—was—a college football star who shocked the sports world when he quit after his third national championship. Instead of dealing with the fallout, he escapes to Shanghai, where he vows to keep life simple.
 
No football. No commitments. No romance.
 
But no matter how hard he tries, he can’t keep a certain beautiful brunette off his mind...or out of his heart.
 
What starts as a physical attraction develops into something much deeper as Blake and Farrah get swept up in the magic of Shanghai—and each other. But they only have one year, and there are forces outside their control that threaten to rip them apart.
 
Can their relationship survive the test...or was it just not meant to be?
 
WARNING: This is the first book in a duet. It's a full-length novel with no sudden cliffhangers, but Blake and Farrah’s story concludes in book two, If the Sun Never Sets, which takes place five years later.
 
If We Ever Meet Again is a steamy strangers to friends to lovers romance. Recommended for 18+ due to adult language and explicit content.
 
 
My Review: This book was soo good. 

I loved all the characters.  Farah and Blake are the main characters in this book and it was something.

 
Farah is not a fan of Blake at all in the start. In fact, she throws some punches back when Blakes attempts at sweet talking her goes sideways and she doesn't buy any of it. 

Blake is sorta just trying to enjoy his senior year while also using this time to get away from everything. What better way than from Texas to Shanghi. 

Farah has her goals in mind while Blake is trying to figure out what his is now that football is off the table. 

These two were meant to hang out as just friends. They spend a day together and it secretly seals the deal. Even more so when both think of the other when some folks from the group go on vacation.

  
When these two finally made it real. It was everything. They had a real connection, love, they looked like they were going to make it. 

When winter break throws everything upside it was an ending that was so hard to read but you know Ana is going to give that HEA in the next book because it simply cannot end the way it did.

My Rating:

✪✪✪✪✪