It turns out that Virginia Feito is not the only one who, with her first novel, has achieved in the last year what an established Spanish author rarely achieves: to have an impact on a literary market as competitive as the American one. However, while the author of Mrs. March he has done it in the black genre, Elena Armas is one of the new queens of the romance novel. They say TikTok and and the best-selling books list of The New York Times. There is nothing.
A wedding, a trip to Spain, a lie and a floundering plan are the ingredients with which Armas has filled the pages of The Spanish Love Deceptiona romcom which will hit Spanish bookstores on July 18 under the title of Spanish love farce and with the rights newly acquired by BCDF Pictures for its film adaptation in Hollywood. In fact, the project already has a director: Peter Hutchings (darling how much i hate you, when you appeared).
While we wait to find out if Ana de Armas and Úrsula Corberó will show up for the casting, the story stars Catalina (or Lina) and unfolds around theSo four weeks she has to find someone willing to accompany her to her sister’s wedding. In our country. Especially since he also has to pretend that he loves her. The situation becomes even more ridiculous when Aaron Blackford, the co-worker he can’t stand, is the one who offers to do it.
However, Lina is so desperate that she will be forced to weigh whether it is worse to put up with Aaron, with his petulant air and his eyes of ice, or to admit in front of her family that she has lied and that it is all a farce. As her grandmother (and that of everyone on this side of the Atlantic) would say: May God catch them confessed.
Spanish love farce (VERA)
Although from the outset the synopsis does not stand out for its originality within the genre, foreign critics have highlighted the novel’s “sensational” characters, the “escapism” it offers the reader and having “just the right amount of indecency”. In addition to the classic compliment that manages to keep you hooked from the first to the last page.
But how did this chemical engineer to sneak into a literary industry as competitive as the Anglo-Saxon one? For starters, being a hopeless romantic. Thus, after years devouring books with happy endings, she decided to write her own and this first novel was born.
The Spanish Love Deception It started out as a self-published book but has ended up becoming an international success boosted by TikTok. In addition, Armas can say that it has been the first Spanish woman to win a Goodreads award and his novel has reached more than twenty-five countries.
Such is its success that, while its debut is now coming to Spain, its second part will be released in the United States in September. The American Roommate Experiment, which although it will not have the same protagonists, will develop the relationship of the secondary Rosie and Lucas. However, it has been confirmed that Lina and Aaron will make a cameo appearance in the sequel.
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