The Rivals

My Rating: 🌟🌟🌟Type: Standalone.Genre: Contemporary Fiction Romance, enemies-to-loversPrimary Characters: Weston & SophieNarration: Dual POVI have read few Vi keeland’s books earlier. I was hoping this would be similar to that. Somehow, this was disappointing to me. I didn’t like the banter and I didn’t like the main characters much. Sophie and Weston seemed normal and cute, but somehow they weren’t for me.Weston Lockwood and Sophia Sterling families are enemies from generations. Their grandfathers fought and fell out over a woman. Now that women have left her posh hotel to both families equally. Now Sophie and Weston are trying to take the control of the hotel and win the respect of their family heads at the same time.I loved Sophie’s strong, independent and caring nature. Weston’s is charming, witty and has a lot of baggage and flaws of his own. They meet head on and fight over everything. There interactions seemed natural and good initially to me but not so much in the later parts of the book.I was hoping to see more of their grandfathers who were the main reason for their current situation, however they were totally side tracked and showcased in a mean way. Sophia and Weston hate each other because their families don’t like each other but they really don't have any reason to. Feud between family also wasn’t highlighted well.Plot is good, but narration wasn’t so gripping. It was boring to me at some points that I had to skim. I did like Scarlett and Walter. Ending was nice. I loved how Weston didn’t budge to temptation. I don’t agree with author’s say that “Alcoholism is a diseases and not character trait”, yet the way it was portrayed was good.Overall, this was a decent book. It didn't totally entertain me, and I was bored at a couple of points. Read and decide for yourself.

I got the audiobook and I've listened to it 5 times now just because the story is so good the fl is actually really strong and so badass and the ml is no god who has no flaws. Ml is portrayed as much of a human and as much equal to the fl and I love that. It's rare to find such gems these days.

After reading Egomaniac I thought that this would have been a nice funny read as well but it wasn't. I felt that there was a lack of chemistry between the main characters and also there story didn't have much angst or substance in it. So for me it all fell short!!

Intriguing, the feud between the Lockwood and Sterling families, similar to the Montagues and Capulets in Romeo and Juliet has lasted for many many decades. It started long before the two main characters in this story were born. Both families hate each other. And now Weston Lockwood and Sophia Sterling are both expected to work jointly to manage a hotel left in a will to both families. And at the same they have to individually evaluate the hotels assets. Neither have a controlling majority. What is their percentage? And how are they going to gain the majority?The relationship between Weston and Sophia is explosive and extremely competitive from the very start. Weston is arrogant and dominating towards Sophia. Sophia is smart but is continually angry at Weston, the run down state of the hotel and the negative attitude of her family.Yet, amongst all the problems, angst, distrust and rivalry Weston and Sophia discover points of similarity. Sexual chemistry and feelings are fuelled by their antagonism. But will small sparks of love develop between them? Will the feud continue? Can change happen?Well, you MUST read this phenomenal story to find your own answers...

Omg I so want a Weston in my life. This is a real swoon sweep off your feet tale, nothing bad to say. There's the initial resistance to romance, the back ground bad family history tale, and the hot male lead who has a very romantic heart once he sorts himself out. Loved the way that although Weston was dominant in the bedroom, he was not a overbearing and all alpha, but he had sensitive and caring side, alongside his baggage.If your looking for HEA with a nice story line, romance, humour and some tears then I highly recommend you read this it certainly out smile on my face 🙂

Yet again a lovely easy read from this author. Here we have two people from two rival families. Weston Lockwood and Sophie Sterling. Their grandparents have history over a hotel owned by the deceased Grace Copland. She and the two men formed a partnership. Both men Sterling and Lockwood fell in love with Grace . She loved both but could not choose. Years pass they grow apart and eventually Grace passes away leaving equal shares to both but neither have the majority shares to run the Countess Hotel. The last 2%is owned by a charity wanting to sell it and give one over the other the right to run the hotel, by majority. The story of Weston and Sophie is one of trust turmoil, trust and secrets with delightful chemistry between the two. The characters described are all so endearing, funny and totally believable. A great storyline that is well written and easy to follow but with lots of banter between the two main characters, that total holds the readers interest.

I breezed through this one sitting, it was not what I expected and yet it was so satisfying and such a nice read.I was pleasantly surprised. I loved both characters. If you want a badass female heroine who takes no shiz from people, then Sophia is your girl. Weston was so cute and such a nice, charming male lead. It was so cute and just such a nice little book to breeze through.The writing was amazing, the storyline was fantastic, can't recommend enough!

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Characters are what sell romance books for me. You can have all the hot smouldering sex scenes you like but if you don’t like the characters as you don’t get their chemistry it doesn’t work. But these characters are great you root from them, you love them.Also it was great to finally have a Brit make an appearance and use some good old proper British swear words!!