“Angst, drama, and HOT HOT love scenes, expect to experience a riot of emotions that culminate in the perfect kind of ending.” – NYT Bestselling author A.L. Jackson
The sequel to the highly emotional, scandalous and USA Today bestselling love story – LOVE, IN ENGLISH – is finally here! Love, in Spanish is a follow-up of about 60K words, told from Mateo Casalles’ POV. While some moments from … moments from LIE are touched on, LOVE, IN SPANISH is not a “re-hash” of the book – it is a whole new story based one year later, expanding on Vera and Mateo’s passionate but tumultuous relationship and their struggle to reach a “happily-ever-after.”
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“Halle created a singular seductive atmosphere in this novel and I was enthralled by it. I lost myself in Mateo’s beautiful heartwarming declarations as well as steamy passionate encounters. Five stars.” – Reading is my Breathing
Successful, wealthy and absurdly handsome – Spanish ex-football player Mateo Casalles seemed like he had it all. A high-society wife, an adorable little girl, and flashy apartments in Madrid and Barcelona only sweetened the deal. But there was more to Mateo than met the eye – a life of uncertainty and regret that colored his black and white world.
That was until Vera Miles came into his life like a shooting star. Tattooed, wild and young, Vera seemed like Mateo’s polar opposite at first. But you can’t choose who you fall in love with and the two lost souls did everything they could to be together, all while suffering the grave consequences.
Now with Mateo divorced and living in Madrid with Vera, there is a whole new set of challenges and setbacks facing the couple and rocking the foundation of their star-crossed relationship.
Unfortunately for them, the brighter the star, the faster they burn.
Love, in Spanish contains the first chapter of Where Sea Meets Sky, a full-length Love, in English spinoff starring Vera’s brother, Josh Miles, coming March 2015 from Atria Books
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I’d been interested in reading both “Love, in English” and its follow-up “Love, In Spanish” ever since I first read “The Forbidden Man” where Vera and Matteo were only supporting characters. I admit that part of the delay was that I have never wanted to read a book where there is cheating involved, but Karina Halle piqued me with their story in “The Forbidden Man,” so I just couldn’t let it go and I’m so glad that I finally got around to reading their story. With these two stories — the first told from Vera’s POV and the second from Matteo’s POV — KH takes you on a complete arch of their relationship, from when they first meet, to their growing attraction and resistance to each other, and then through the long, complex, and messy road that ensues as a result of the affair. We also get to see all sides of the story, including how their family, friends, and the public respond to the affair. But the beauty of their story is the sense of honesty from which KH tells it as well as seeing that an affair is not as black & white as those who are observing from outside of the relationship like to think. In reading both Vera’s and Matteo’s POV you see all the colors in between. I ached for them and their situation and even with their HEA, it was bittersweet. Highly recommended and looking forward to reading Luciano’s story next.
Love, In Spanish is the follow up to Love, in English. It’s really important that you read Book 1 first. Compared to the first book I liked this one a lot better. There’s still a lot of angst but it’s shorter and with more action as opposed to endless inner monologues, and the ending is more realistic.
I wanted to like the characters better in this book, but they still make a lot of silly mistakes and act immature. They created a lot of their own problems, and the ones that they didn’t self-create have more than one obvious solution if the H and h would just chill for a minute and think it through.
If you read book 1 then you should definitely read this book too. The story is more complete and believable after this one.
Love, in Spanish takes place one year into Mateo and Vera’s relationship and is told from his point of view. Infidelity, as we found out in Love, in English may be all hearts and flowers in the beginning but it is eventually U.G.L.Y. And this book goes to show you how ugly it can be and how it brings out the absolute worst in the wronged person – in this case Isabel, Mateo’s now ex-wife. I 100% understood her pain and anger towards both Mateo and Vera, even though I had the impression that their marriage was far from perfect and only needed a slight breeze to push them into the world of divorce.
Vera’s maturity level, or lack there of, was pretty apparent in this one. The way she partied, drank and carried on at bars could never lead to anything good and it definitely worked against her. Her insecurity, second guessing and doubting their relationship all the time was enough for me to want to slap her. She seemed so mature during the epilogue of LiE that I was a bit surprised to see this side of her in this one.
Mateo – you cheating bastard – I love you, your words and your struggles. You wore it all on your sleeve and never held anything back. You knew what you wanted and didn’t let anything hold you back. Vera is one lucky woman.
I’m glad we got to see this side of the story, as most books that center around infidelity have the tendency to gloss over a lot of the real feelings – this one did not and for that I am thankful.
This is from Mateo’s POV. I’m a huge fan of male pov books, and this one didn’t disappoint. Plus, we get more Mateo. WIN!
I liked that it didn’t rehash from the last book, that it picked up later and we got to see how they’re doing. Reading about his side of certain parts of their relationship was great. Of course the hits keep on coming, poor crazy-in-love kids. It was wonderful to read more about them and I ended up falling for Mateo even more. Go Team Mateo!