Love Redesigned (Lakefront Billionaires, 1)

ARC Review I swear I feel like it's been so long since I've read a book by Lauren Asher and now that I've read Love Redesigned, I feel so content with my life right now. Coming back to her world of new billionaires has me so excited since just with the first book, there was so many great characters. From Julian and Dahlia, I can't even express how much I love them and, honestly, they might be my favorite Lauren Asher couple. Also, the side characters, OMG, I simply can't wait for the next books of this series since I just know that the couples are going to be mind blowingly phenomenal. I kind of have a feeling about who will be the other couples but I'll keep that to myself and just hope that I'm right. I've read a good majority of Lauren Asher's books now and I have to say something about Love Redesigned is just so different, I feel like her writing has improved, not saying that her past work is bad, but this book just had a completely different element from her past ones. I think one of the most important parts that I loved was the constant culture and spanish speaking in the book. It's no secret that I'm Latine and growing up, having main characters that were BIPOC wasn't really seen and even now with a spike in Latino characters, the authors have not grown that much. Based on a study from Wordsrated, Latino authors have increased by 2.96% since 2010 which totals the Latino representation to 7.62% in the publishing industry. I have to appreciate the work that Lauren Asher is doing because not only is she breaking a barrier in the publishing industry but she's having her characters be represented in the best way I've seen. I honestly can't express how much I appreciate Lauren for this book because for some, this might not seem like a big deal, but to little me that was expected to be a minor character in a story, she made us front and center with the best representation that I could've asked her. Now to the book, the banter between Julian and Dahlia was truly addicting and something that I just eat up when I'm reading books. There's just something about it that left me wanting more and I just felt like I was a part of their lives. The chemistry between all the characters was just very comforting since you can tell that there's love within each other and that at the end of the day, when one of them feels alone in reality they're not since their family will always be there to support them. The meaning of family is really strong in this book and I'm just a complete sucker for that since my family has a big impact on me. Julian was a very interesting Hero and I honestly didn't expect him to be the way that he was. Is he a possessive jealous alpha? Yes, but there's just something about him that doesn't leave a weird taste in your mouth if he was real. I just feel like he was a gentleman with some jealous tendencies for his heroine which is completely valid. He was just such an interesting Hero that I haven't read in a while, he was just the perfect man and I can see why Dahlia was intrigued with him. Although we don't get to see his growth on paper, we can see that from the incident to now that Julian isn't the same person and has improved himself. I love that he's able to admit that and still acknowledge that he still has work to do which makes me love him more since he doesn't see his vulnerability as something weak. Dahlia, she was just baby girl and after everything she went through with you know who, I just wanted to give her a big hug. The way her character was written, I just felt like she was a friend that was telling us the chisme about her life and that of Lake Wisteria. There were so many great moments that we get with her and I just loved seeing how the story went through her eyes since it was definitely different from Julian. She has honestly been my favorite character of the year and I just hope that we get to see more of her in the future books. Overall, I genuinely can't recommend this book enough since there's just nothing that you won't like from this book. The characters, the plot, and the setting just leaves you craving more from this world and the characters. I just love this book so much and I genuinely think it's one of the best books of 2023. Trigger Warnings: -Mentions of Infertility Issues -Mentions of Death of Parents -Panic/Anxiety Attacks

I would recommend this book to anyone. It was an easy read. It had some of the best tropes; billionaire, small town, childhood rivals, and one of my favorites-second chance. We meet Julian and Dahlia, who have known each other since they were kids as their families are close, which forced them to grow up together, but they were always pranking each other, competing against one another, and just bantering back and forth. Julian is a billionaire app developer and Dahlia is a well known interior designer that has a show renovating house with her fiancé who comes back to her hometown after a devastating breakup with her ex fiancé, who was also Julian's college roommate! (Yea, I'll let you read about how that all took place). Anyway, Julian's mother really wants Julian to team up with Dahlia on a home project to pull her out of the sadness she's been feeling since her broken engagement. Julian is hesitant to do it, but basically breaks to his mothers request. With the time that Julian and Dahlia are forced to spend together it starts to bring back old feelings that maybe weren't all to do with hating each other or being rivals afterall. They are forced to acknowledge those feelings that they have both tried to deny for years. This story was just so swoon... that praise the Julian give Dahlia that really starts to bring back her confidence that she was lacking is precious. His ways of remembering things about her that she never knew he paid attention to was just the sweetest. I love a good second chance romance. It forces the characters to evaluate their feelings while also trying to communicate about what hurt them in the past and testing them on how they can move past it if they want to see a future together. I loved how Julian wasn't going to give her up this time, no matter what it took. He was in it to convince her that his love for her was here to stay.

💭 My Thoughts: I went into this one with very high expectations after absolutely devouring Lauren Asher’s Dreamland Billionaires series. Sadly, while this was a good read, it just didn’t quite hit the same for me. The banter in the beginning had me hopeful, but somewhere along the way I found myself not really falling in love with Julian. The chemistry was there, the spice was definitely strong (solid 4 pepper rating!), but the emotional pull just didn’t grab me the way her other books have. Overall, still enjoyable and worth a read for Lauren Asher fans, but for me, it’s a one-and-done. 💘 Book Boyfriend Review: Julian Billionaire + Sharp-tongued banter + Secretly soft for her = ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Julian has the looks, the wit, and the ambition, but he didn’t quite give me the “obsessed MMC” energy I love. If you like a confident hero with just enough softness to keep you hooked, you might swoon harder than I did.

Dopo aver letto il primo libro della Dreamland non ero rimasta troppo colpita dall'autrice, ma questo romanzo ha ribaltato completamente la mia opinione. Il mix tra evoluzione dei personaggi, sviluppo della storia e tutte le difficoltà che affrontano è perfetto, ci sono state scene che mi hanno lasciato l'emozione addosso per pagine intere. L'ambientazione è molto suggestiva senza essere stucchevole, così come le sfaccettature che caratterizzano i protagonisti: Julian non è il solito milionario vuoto, ma deve solo capire come riscoprire le emozioni che l'hanno accompagnato negli inizi del suo lavoro. Dahlia, d'altronde, deve combattere per ritrovarsi e tornare ad amarsi dopo che la sua essenza è stata quasi del tutto risucchiata, e chi meglio della persona che ha l'ha sempre spronata e sfidata per farlo? Mi è piaciuto davvero tutto di questa storia e mi ha lasciato anche una grande curiosità per i prossimi romanzi della serie!

Was für ein Buch, so schön von Anfang an. Eine perfekte Liebesgeschichte, mit so wundervollen Charakteren sowie den Kane Brüdern. Es hat alles gestimmt, besonders Julian. Ohhh, Julian, ich glaube, ich habe mich verliebt, für mich ist der Traummann!Sensibel, selbstlos, sarkastisch und humorvoll und so liebenswert. Dieser Mann ist ein Traum. Er hat sie vom ersten Moment geliebt und hat das in jedem seiner Taten ihr bewiesen.

It is a lovely and funny romance, with a lot of love and family interaction. A good caracter development for the main couple. Nice reading!

Lauren Asher ate once again. THIS BOOK FELT LIKE A WARM HUG—i love all these characters already, Julian and dahlia have my HEART. the way Julian was literally ready to give up everything for her was 😭😭😭 he’s the standard. i can’t wait for this series to continue <3

The cutest romance story. You fall in love with and route for the characters in the story! A great read! Can't wait for book 2 coming out in June.