Her blatant disdain and attitude is such a relief. It is fresh air. I need to breathe it in deep or suffocate. Or maybe it’s just the devil you know. The rules: no kissing on the mouth, no staying the night, no telling anyone, and above all… No falling in love. All’s fair in love and football… Game on. VIP Series (4 Books) by Kristen Callihan Les joutes verbales sont succulentes, mais voir ces adversaires de longue date se retrouver et se redécouvrir, c’est encore mieux. Le double pov est un plaisir que ce soit, évidemment, pour s’attacher aux personnages, mais aussi pour mettre en lumière les zones d'ombres qui teintaient leur relation depuis l'enfance.⁣ H (Hero) rating: 4 stars. Macon. I liked him. I thought he made up for his past behavior with the h.

So, Dear Enemy had a lot of emotional ups and downs. Overall, I really enjoyed the journey and didn’t mind pushing through some of the downs because the ups were so good. I did have a problem with the Epilogue, though. First, we have Delilah again putting her dreams on hold to follow Macon for his work. Yes, I do believe that a relationship is all about 'give and take' but Delilah has given a lot. But, then again, I like that they didn’t want to be apart. (You just can't please me sometimes. 😉) Secondly, I had moved past all of the hurt Delilah dealt with and was ready to move on to their happy ever after together. Why would I want to revisit her memories again? I didn’t get closure knowing more of what Macon put her through. I WANTED TO MOVE ON and forget that he was ever her… Dear Enemy. I want my Epilogues to be all hearts and flowers, I was just a little disappointed. Childhood enemies to lovers? I'm in. Unfortunately, everything went downhill when I hit the 88% mark. This book was an absolute hit for me. I literally love anything enemies to lovers related, so when I saw that this trope was going to be included, I knew I had to read it. I read this within a day, and when I finished, I felt so sad because I just wanted more aGH.i was a bit weirded out from the beginning when i found out Sam (h's sister) and Macon were childhood "bf/gf" where they dated for years. Delilah is pretty. Quietly pretty. She will never be the first person everyone looks at when entering a room. Especially not in LA, where beautiful women bloom like flowers in a well-tended garden. But among a bouquet of perfect roses, Delilah is much like her namesake flower—unexpectedly vivid and complex—making you realize that roses are boring in comparison. Delilah wanted to be friends. Macon did the verbal 'pulling-the-little-girls-hair' thing and they've been enemies ever since. But they're still always in each other's presence, because Macon and Deliah's sister Sam have been a 'thing' since that very first day. On and off again all through school.

Did I mention that this book has like no plot? I don't even mind it if it's not plot driven, but the romance is not doing the work, the drama is not doing it for me. So the plot has to do it, but there was none. There was an interesting storyline with Macon's stalker, but that went nowhere. At the end of the book it was just mentioned that the Stalker died. Whew, cased closed. Goodbye. Tell me what was the point of the stalker plot line? I don't understand it. With Delilah I got one of my favorite heroines - sassy, snarky, smart, deeply loyal and adaptive. A person who keeps the hero on his toes, who listens and learns, who makes mistakes and knows how to say sorry and how to forgive. And there was a lot to forgive when it came to Macon - he really was the worst and total punk as a teenager. For Delilah it wasn't the grudge that was hard to get over though but her insecurities that Macon caused and they would flare up frequently. Macon's openness and his true remorse helped her to get over it though and earned him her absolute trust. He didn't let up when he realized that it was his childhood enemy he wanted and went after her with every tool in his repertoire. I wish I could say DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER ... but I'm really afraid that people will do so. I read and listened to this one and thought the narration by Maxine Mitchell and Sebastian York was wonderful. Maxine Mitchell especially shined and she really captured so much emotion in her performance. I really enjoy Sebastian York's narrations, but for some reason I didn't fully love him as Macon. Perhaps it's because he sounded a little too mature or possibly not gruff enough, but despite his great performance, something kept me from fully feeling him in this role. Overall, this was still a fantastic audiobook and a great listen.Then there was his “closest friend” that lived with him and slept with Sam. I was sure that meant nothing happened between those two. I was hoping for some limits at least between them, but then the hero started thinking about how Sam was his "type" and how he used to be attracted to her: The women I hook up with are happy to take attention away from me and keep the spotlight on themselves. Hell, my “type” started with Sam. But the truth is, I haven’t been attracted to her in a long time. And even then, it’d been a mild interest at best. Dear Enemy was a fantastic read, it has the best enemies to lovers set up!I was captivating , the writing was so good that you will fall in love immediately with the characters and you will not put it down until you finish it!

From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Callihan comes a smart, emotional contemporary romance about finding love with the most unlikely of people. Delilah enters into some BatB-esque servitude to work off her shady sister's debt with Macon and the homage to the fairytale was pretty loose in some sense and also it felt like one entire scene was lifted from the movie. I'm not against retellings, in fact JT Geissinger's BURN FOR YOU followed along those lines and worked really well for me, amongst other retellings, but between everything else..? I just can't get on with the characters. Things seem to be moving along fairly predictably, too, with certain interactions between the main protags and I'm just bored. Her sister was also his only girlfriend. That makes the heroine his second girlfriend. He dated twice in his life and he went from one sister to another. I'm dying of romance here. Too many feels, send help. #sarcasm I also loved Delilah for her steadfastness, her loyalty, her unshakable love for her sister although she wasn't blind to Sam's many flaws (boy, did I hate her). Both of the main characters experienced immense growth that left me completely satisfied in the end. Ehrlich gesagt, hatte ich mir mehr hiervon erwartet. Allein, da ich bisher alle Bücher von Kristen Callihan geliebt habe und ich das Trope "Enemies to Lovers" auch super gerne lese. Allerdings fand ich den Einstieg in die Geschichte echt lahm und langatmig. Wäre da etwas gekürzt wurden, wäre das Buch ein echtes Highlight gewesen.The heroine was adopted. What was the freaking point? No blood, all good? It changes absolutely nothing especially because the hero didn't know. He seemed so self-confident, so larger-than-life on the outside that no one bothered to look what's behind the facade. Bad sibling relationship is one of the worst things in books. I absolutely can't stand it. Why was Sam mean to Delilah you're asking? Well, jealousy... she was jealous cuz she thought their parents loved Del more than her. Yup it's that dumb. I just wanted to punch Sam straight in the face and Delilah for being such a doormat when it comes to her sister. Hero-complex at its worst. Macon is now Hollywood superstar and Delilah is a chef. She doesn't bow down for anyone and he isn't used to anyone opposing him. The banter is well and truly alive. I liked the writing and the story flow. It is always fun to read enemies to lovers romance. Compared to real life where we all know how exhausting that is. This is also slow burn romance. Initially, I felt for Delilah so much. Upon the cruel jokes and hateful pranks thrown her way, you just can’t help but feel bad for her. Not only Macon, but it seemed that their entire school made fun of her. (That said, as the novel progresses you begin to see Macon’s side of the story, and feel for him too.) At prom, there was a whole show that went down, leaving Delilah upset and humiliated. This is also when Macon broke up with Samantha, saying he “wants nothing to do with the Baker sisters.”