As she s diagnosed with the same condition her mother had One that requires bes rest and certain foods to help with her upset stomach nausea It was so interesting seeing the puerto rican remedies for this and one of my fave scenes is Jeremy being taught what to prepare for Rosa by her god mother. I loves Jeremy He s such a sweetie and cares about Rosa so much I cackled when he had no idea what type of olives to get when he s sent out to get the items for the meals and returns with allll the types of olives Lol I also appreciates how when Rosa calls him out on things or points out how he messed up he listened He really wants to show Rosa how much he cares Both And Rosa s gesture at the end to show Jeremy how much she cares about him too It was sooo sweet And shows such growth as she was always scared to share her poetry in public I thought the gesture was pretty great while still being true to who Rosa is And the glimpses we got of Yaz and Tomas as a family unit.
The Fernandez sisters have always had big dreams and the talent and drive to pursue them And in this sunny spicy new series each one will discover that success is that much sweeter when love follows Rosa Fernandez doesn t act on impulse she s the responsible one planning her career with precision finally landing a job as the librarian at conservative Queen of Peace Academy confining her strongest emotions to her secret poetry journal But she s been harboring a secret crush on dreamy Jeremy Taylor and after one dance with him at her sister s wedding Rosa longs to let loose for the first time She deserves some fun after all So what if she doesn t have a shot with Jeremy not with his wealthy pedigree and high profile lifestyle But one dance leads to one kiss and soon Rosa is head over heels The adopted son of a prominent Chicago lawyer Jeremy has a lot to live up to especially with his birth father in prison the perfect example of a bad example With a big promotion and a move to Japan in the works Jeremy is worlds away from settling down But sweet steady Rosa is a temptation he doesn t want to deny himself at least for now Yet when their simple fling turns complicated everything they ve both worked for is threatened except the red hot intimacy they ve found together Can forever really grow from just for now Her Perfect Affair Matched to Perfection 2 
PRISCILLA OLIVERAS is a USA Today bestselling author and 2018 RWA RITA double finalist who writes contemporary romance with a Latinx flavor Proud of her Puerto Rican Mexican heritage she strives to bring authenticity to her novels by sharing her Latinx culture with readers She and her work have earned praise from the Washington Post New York Times Entertainment Weekly Redbook Publishers Weekly and Booklist among others Priscilla earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and currently serves as adjunct faculty in the program and teaches the online class Romance Writing for ed2go While she s a romance genre junkie Priscilla also considers herself a sports fan beach lover and Zumba aficionado who o PRISCILLA OLIVERAS is a USA Today bestselling author and 2018 RWA RITA double finalist who writes contemporary romance with a Latinx flavor Proud of her Puerto Rican Mexican heritage she strives to bring authenticity to her novels by sharing her Latinx culture with readers She and her work have earned praise from the Washington Post New York Times Entertainment Weekly Redbook Publishers Weekly and Booklist among others Priscilla earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and currently serves as adjunct faculty in the program and teaches the online class Romance Writing for ed2go While she s a romance genre junkie Priscilla also considers herself a sports fan beach lover and Zumba aficionado who often practices the art of napping in her backyard hammock. com prisoliveras or on Twitter and Instagram via prisoliveras site_link Oh I love Rosa I found myself truly relating to her so muchThis book goes into in depth romance and swoony moments Even details to the closed door steamy scenes I would call these door cracked open scenes As per usual the Puerto Rican Culture is so beautifully portrayed Loved this love story English Also on Romances Ever After as part of the Blog Tour. I loved Priscilla Oliveras debut novel His Perfect Partner so I was pretty stoked when I got approved for the sequel ARC While Her Perfect Affair didn t manage to charm me the way its predecessor did this book still has some strengths I appreciate Her Perfect Affair follows the second Fernandez sister Rosa Rosa s the straitlaced one of the three sisters the rules follower and good girl until one night she decided to follow her heart and get together with Jeremy Taylor a close friend of the family and a man she s been crushing on for years Like the first book I really love that this book is unapologetically Latinx from the Spanish integrated in the dialogues the food the strong familial bonds I ve always found myself easier to relate to ethnic families in lit seeing that I came from one myself and it thrilled me to find similarities in a culture different than my own I adore the tight bond between the Fernandez sisters I love how they love and support each other despite their differences I also love Rosa s poetry club kids they re all standout characters on their own That being said I wish I was invested in the romance since that s the thing I came here for I love both Rosa and Jeremy as individual characters but I had mixed feelings about them together Jeremy especially has my heart he was so kind and earnest and he tried so hard this man Rosa was his ride or die and it kind of pained me to see his sincere efforts constantly rebuffed He simply couldn t do anything right in Rosa s eyes I wanted to be understanding of Rosa s insecurities regarding Jeremy but the push and pulling got a bit tiring halfway through the book I was amazed by Jeremy s endless patience Overall I was slightly disappointed that I didn t love Her Perfect Affair as much as I wanted to but I m still sticking around to see Lili the youngest Fernandez sister gets her HEA English 3. 5 5His Perfect Affair was actually the first book I read from Priscilla Oliveras and it was while reading this book that I realized that I most definitely needed to go back and read the first just because I needed of the Fernandez sisters I know the heroine in His Perfect Affair did not work for everyone but being a lover of flawed heroines I didn t have as much of a big issue with her. This book tells the story of Rosa Fernandes who has a one night stand with a good friend and winds up being pregnant A good girl to the bone Rosa was the sort of character who was responsible and spent much of her life not doing anything reckless So this one night stand was completely out of character for her Though her career as a librarian at a conservative Catholic school may be in jeopardy if the board found out about her out of wedlock pregnancy she refused to marry Jeremy out of obligation Instead she kept her pregnancy from her beloved sisters and suggests co parenting to Jeremy It was obvious where Rosa s feelings were coming from in His Perfect Affair As a reader you want to shake her by the shoulders so that she sees the obvious good thing in front of her but part of me also admired that she didn t want to force Jeremy in any way She remained very staunch throughout the book when it came to her decision despite Jeremy s constant wooing and I ll admit that her bullheadedness could be just a bit frustrating As you would expect she did eventually give in to her attractions to him but the road to getting there was not an easy one Jeremy was such a star He was just the most patient guy ever He was a genuinely good guy and went to lengths to show Rosa that he was just the perfect guy for her It s been months since I ve read this book but I still want to swoon thinking of Jeremy and all of his amazingness As you may have guessed the romance was not always the easiest but I never stopped rooting for them to find their happily ever after I think Jeremy worked hard to get there and prove that he was genuinely in love with Rosa As with His Perfect Partner family was a strong element in His Perfect Affair I love the Fernandes sisters and how close they are with each other These sisters were willing to do anything for each other and that just melted my heart I loved how we got to see so much of the Peurto Rican traditions and culture in this book. As with the first book His Perfect Affair is another romantic read I recommend if you are looking for something with strong elements of family English I ll be honest I really struggled with this book and in particular the heroine While I understood Rosa s reasons for being guarded and for not wanting to be in a relationship with Jeremy by default she consistently refused to give him any agency for the choices he was making it was all he was doing this because he had to because it was the right thing and she never once considered it was because he wanted to And you know what I get that was the point that she had her own trauma that she was working through completely unrelated to an unplanned pregnancy but that didn t make it any less frustrating to read There s a moment where she calls Jeremy out for lying to her about his family situation and has absolutely zero self awareness that she s doing the exact same thing to her family by not telling them that she feels their mother s death was her fault and I wanted to shake her And then the whole thing turns on him finally admitting his feelings and then she reads a poem and they re together The resolution just felt super rushed for the entire book of walls that she put up and I didn t feel like I had adequate reason to believe that they were going to live happily ever after. Disappointing after I enjoyed Oliveras s debut so much but if there s a book about the third sister I will still check it out Lili is cool English The first book in this series His Perfect Partner was one of my favorite romances last year In that book you could tell there was something between Rosa and Jeremy so I was quite excited to read this one. As hinted in the first book Rosa has a major crush on Jeremy In fact that sounds a bit juvenile Rosa is pretty much in love with Jeremy But they are very good friends and she doesn t want to mess up their friendship Jeremy who has just moved back to Chicago was a rock for her after her father s death and he is considered a close friend of the entire family Little does Rosa know that Jeremy is also interested in potentially exploring a relationship but he has no idea how she feels and he is waiting for a sign from her that she may want to take things further So when Rosa and Jeremy have a ONS at her sister s wedding he s disheartened the next morning when she wakes up really embarrassed I should note that this is a closed door romance There is kissing but no sex depicted on page Rosa is the good Fernandez sister and having a ONS is totally unlike her She is embarrassed for coming onto Jeremy and freaked out that she s ruined their friendship That was kind of frustrating because she ignored him and didn t even try to talk to him about it but I kinda got it too It was so out of character for her. But that s the least of her worries because despite using protection Rosa gets pregnant When she tells Jeremy he immediately suggests getting married because it s the Right Thing to Do Thus begins the sometimes tiring back and forth between Rosa and Jeremy. I don t often see the let s get married for the baby trope in contemporary romance because it seems like an outdated concept but don t we all know people who have gotten married because of a pregnancy SO MANY And how many of those ended up in divorces SO MANY I totally understood why Rosa freaked out over this And Jeremy was really pushy at the beginning especially when Rosa has complications with her pregnancy and is ordered to work half days and rest But Jeremy does back off and I thought he was a total cinnamon roll hero There are a lot of things he does to show Rosa he cares about her try to learn Spanish go shopping learn how to make food and tea that will not upset her stomach Even though Rosa felt he was overbearing at times and he was he wasn t an asshole. There is a lot here to do with Catholic guilt And that is a real thing let me tell you Rosa works for a religious private school she s a practicing Catholic who attends Mass every week with her family and she s very involved in the Latino community as well which is also connected to the church There are possible serious repercussions for her job that she worries about as well as her fear that she has let everyone down by getting pregnant out of wedlock But while the book grapples with these topics it doesn t lose itself in Guilt and Shame Just like the first book family and community play a very important role in a positive way I love the scenes of Rosa with her sisters I love when they reminisce about their parents I love their family friends who fuss over Rosa to show they care about her Jeremy also has a strong relationship with his parents which is the story of the youngest Fernandez sister English After being massively impressed with Priscila Oliveras debut romance I fully expected to have a similarly successful experience with Her Perfect Affair Unfortunately that wasn t meant to be and instead I spent most of the book trapped with a moody hormonal heroine a bland whitebread hero and a style of drama that I can only describe as much ado about nothing Oh and Catholic Guilt Never forget the Catholic Guilt. Her Perfect Affair is a fairly textbook example of the surprise pregnancy after a one night stand trope Rosa and Jeremy hook up at a wedding don t speak to each other until the test comes back positive and then Jeremy proposes instantly while Rosa balks for reasons that may or may not make much sense It s not usually my favorite kind of story mood swings strange cravings and morning sickness rarely send romantic signals in my opinion Sometimes an author can make it work though This was especially the case with this book since Rosa s pregnancy does not progress smoothly at all and her doctor prescribes bedrest Ick. In general Rosa Fernandez already has a lot of issues re guilt and insecurity She holds herself responsible for her mother s death in a car accident the reasoning for this is super flimsy and overall she thinks of herself as ugly a failure etc Toss in a pregnancy out of wedlock that she feels will surely disappoint her entire Catholic Latino community and there is a lot of self flagellation going on in a single book Being completely honest I understand that the shame of getting pregnant without being married is a reality for many many peoplebut yikes I don t want to read about it in a romance novel Or any novel And I m also not down for the shy and bookish heroine who s convinced no man could possibly love her even though she s described like some kind of sexy Latina hot librarian fantasy No Stop The shy unsexy librarian trope needs to die. Soyeah Not to be that reader who hates on the female protagonist but Rosa was really not working for me And all thing being equal I found Jeremy to be an absolute snore fest as well He has the weird angst about not be his dad s real son because he s adopted and his bio dad is a criminal or whatever Considering his parents obviously loved him I felt that point of tension was just as contrived as Rosa self flagellating for causing her mother s car accident It felt like both protagonists were just reaching up their butts to find reasons to hate themselves you know Anyway. So there s the pregnancy and Jeremy wants to get married but Rosa doesn t That it that s the plot Obviously Jeremy eventually wins Rosa over Rosa accepts his proposal by reading a super cheesy poem in public so cheesy why god why And all is right with the world Except it s not because what a weird book Most of the conflict in Her Perfect Affair felt contrived and again like Oliveras was making a big deal about very small issues. Bonus note Jeremy s vapid blond ex girlfriend is the villain of a couple scenes and I really could have done without that Because of course we must contrast the shy Latina librarian heroine with the tall skinny blonde bitch who s out to steal her man Also Oliveras wrote that the ex girlfriend s sidekick was and I quote a few too many candy bars shy of being slender and just NO This person s weight was not relevant except as evidence for how awful a person she is Way to code fatness as synonymous with evil WHY do authors do this Yeah gross I was not impressed by the author s treatment of either the ex girlfriend or the ex girlfriends sidekick. In sum this book did not really work for me Rather than doing something unique with the tropes and archetypes she picked out Oliveras just wrote a samey same story I felt that in comparison to the first book in this series the characters Puerto Rican culture wasn t explored nearly as much except in the context of Catholic Guilt so that was a let down as well All in all I finished Her Perfect Affair with an indifferent shrug and a bit of an eye roll Blog Review Database Twitter Instagram Goodreads English Puerto Rican school librarian heroine and an unspecified white tech bro hero and a Harlequin Romance vibe It had no on page sex which I know some people are always looking for English DNF at 41%Too much Catholicism and specifically Catholic guilt for my taste 10 31 22 English I really enjoyed this as much as book 1 in the series Jeremy and Rosa were so good together and as individuals While this one was a low heat level like book 1 one closed door sex scene there were some steamier make out scenes with lots of great tension I love how Priscilla Oliveras centres family as an important theme The potential one between Rosa and Jeremy she s carrying his child Rosa s sisters and Jeremy s parents as well as the family Rosa has created with her poetry students I loved seeing those different dynamics at play While we get to see the early stages of Rosa s pregnancies it s not easy i liked that a lot I always look forward to getting a peek at the previous couple s life even as the focus remains on the new couple Oliveras does this nicely as Yaz and Tomas wedding opens the book Lili the youngest is next up to have her story told and she intrigues me so i cant wait to read her book English Priscilla Oliveras had a successful debut romance with His Perfect Partner the first in the Matched to Perfection series about three Puerto Rican sisters finding love amid the laughter and tears of everyday life I enjoyed that story though I did find it quite emotional as the women deal with their father s cancer diagnosis There are happier times ahead as Her Perfect Affair begins with a wedding celebration for the couple from book one It s a thoroughly enjoyable romance where a seductive night together leads to unintended consequences that s a euphemism for Oops We made a baby . Rosa has always been the responsible Fernandez sister She doesn t make hasty decisions and she has a plan for her life At the wedding of her older sister Yazmine Rosa throws caution to the winds when she gets the chance to spend the night with her secret crush Yazmine s best friend Jeremy Taylor As luck would have it despite using precautions Rosa ends up pregnant. Jeremy comes from a wealthy society family though they have had their share of heartache Surviving an abusive relationship Jeremy s mother married a wonderful man who raised Jeremy as his own They d hoped he d follow in his step father s footsteps and become a lawyer but Jeremy insisted on going out on his own building his own career in information technology He s been raised to always do the right thing and that means proposing marriage to Rosa whom he s also secretly cared for a great deal But Rosa shocks him when she refuses his proposal. Rosa knows that the easiest thing to do would be to marry Jeremy Her new job as librarian at a Catholic school could be in jeopardy and she is aware that gossip in her church may be unkind She dreads telling her two sisters about the pregnancy as well as other relatives who will be disappointed in her But no matter what happens she refuses to marry out of obligation She wants a marriage built on love and respect She s willing to be co parents with Jeremy even if it s the difficult route Can Jeremy show Rosa that together they can have everything including love What a lovely romance It s on the sweeter side with on page kisses but off page love scenes though the consequences are the same Rosa so rarely lets herself be impulsive and the one time she does it comes back to bite her I admire her for her convictions for her willingness to take responsibility for her actions and for her not taking the easy way out She s especially concerned about her new job at the Catholic school because although they haven t yet enacted a morality clause in their employee contracts that would give them the right to terminate employees for infractions such as being unwed and pregnant they could still make things difficult for her This is particularly distressing because she s started an after school poetry group that has become a popular oasis for some of the local teenagers For her poetry is a way to express her thoughts and feelings and she keeps a poetry journal to confide in Being engaged would make sharing the news of her pregnancy a lot easier but she s holding out for love. As for Jeremy he s what friends of mine on social media would call a cinnamon roll hero patient and kind generous and thoughtful While he believes marriage really is the solution when Rosa declines his offer he initially wants to push the issue When she won t budge he resolves to do whatever he can to help ease her pregnancy symptoms and support her any way he can Some readers may find the story a bit challenging if they are sensitive to scenes of nausea and vomiting because Rosa throws up A LOT In fact she spends almost the entire story dealing with morning sickness as a result of having the pregnancy condition of hyperemesis gravidarum which is characterized by severe nausea vomiting weight loss and dehydration Jeremy steps up the plate learning how to make a special tea taught to him by Rosa s godmother and spending nights at her house as a caregiver to make sure she has everything she needs In his care and attention he demonstrates his true feelings of love for Rosa not the romantic ones but the ones that will make a marriage endure As he and Rosa spend time together they come to realize that their feelings have strengthened and in fact become real love While it takes Rosa longer to realize this than Jeremy they eventually end up on the same page and are ready to make that lifelong commitment not just for their child but for themselves. The story is infused with the close family ties and culture of the Puerto Rican Fernandez sisters From liberally sprinkled Spanish expressions to traditional foods and celebrations the author who is herself Puerto Rican has brought the warmth and love of her own personal experience to the romance Jeremy has to prove to Rosa s family that he will make a worthy father for the baby and partner for Rosa regardless of whether they marry or not From this family background Rosa also challenges Jeremy to reconcile with his parents with whom he s had a strained relationship for some time It s quite nice to see him taking her advice and shows that they have equal opportunities to support each other Her Perfect Affair is a family focused heartwarming romance, To follow along on her fun filled and hectic life visit her on the web at site_link on Facebook at site_link www: This review also appears at All About Romance copy of this story was provided by the publisher via NetGalley for review English
| Her Perfect Affair (Matched to Perfection, #2) By Priscilla Oliveras |
| 1420144294 |
| 9781420144291 |
| English |
| 321 |
| Mass Market Paperback |
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