seriously romantic: her perfect affair by priscilla oliveras

as an expat puerto rican living in a northen state without a large community of puerto ricans, reading this series gives me some serious homesickness. in her perfect affair, we get to see more of rosa fernández and what happens when she doesn't control every aspect of her life. when she takes a risk and goes for it with jeremy taylor, her longtime crush, the last thing she expects is an unplanned pregnancy. and to make matters worse, she's also suffering from hypermesis gravidarum (a condition anyone who follows the british royal family knows is not pleasant).

rosa is a huge ball of insecurities and she's constantly attributing feelings and thoughts to jeremy that aren't there. but she's not a pushover either. in fact she spends most of her time pushing jeremy away. which i'll be honest, i have no idea why this dude fought so hard for her. she was kind of miserable and controlling the whole book. i mean look, given the situation and the stuff she was dealing with, sure, no one would be sunshine and roses. but to me rosa is all sharp edges and wrongheaded stubborness. i wanted to like rosa. but much like how i wasn't a huge fan in the first book, i'm still pretty lukewarm on her in this second one.

i am in love with jeremy though. he's a good guy trying to do the right thing for the woman and child he loves. and the scene with tía dolores and the olives is awesome. but basically while you could accuse him of not always saying the right thing, no one ever gives him a decent chance of explaining himself. even when the whole family drama thing happens when rosa meets his parents i couldn't understand rosa's reactions.

so this is the thing, i love this series. i love the sisters' bond, i love the sense of family, i love the puerto rican culture that imbues this story from start to finish. i just wish i loved rosa. she didn't speak to me. but i still enjoyed this book and reading this story made me feel something, and maybe someone else will be more forgiving of her sharp edges.

**her perfect affair will publish on march 27, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/kensington books (zebra shout) in exchange for my honest review.