Author: Nadine Gonzalez
Genre: Contemporary Romance – Rom-com, Slow Burn, Friends-to-Lovers, Beach Read, Books About Books, Black Love
Book Rating: ⭐7/10
Spicy Rating: 🌶️🌶️2/5
Description:
After her legal career implodes, Liliane “Lily” Lyon escapes to a summer rental at The Icon, an Art Deco building in Miami Beach, planning to do nothing but read and drink by the pool. Instead, she’s swept into the building’s tight-knit community—and into a slow-burn connection with broody professor Benedicto Romero, as their shared love of romance novels leads to a poolside book club, a possible podcast, and a relationship that might outlast her end-of-summer departure date.
Trope/Mood:
Slow burn; friends-to-lovers; opposites attract; close proximity / neighbors; books-about-books (romance book club & podcast); Black Love with Haitian FMC & Cuban MMC; found family / building community; beachy, fun, low-angst, flirty and warm.