4.5 stars. Love in La Terraza is a delightful romance that is funny, touching, sweet and deliciously sexy. To read my review in its entirety please click HERE. ( )

Delightfully funny, yet with enough conflict and angst to keep me interested, this story about Cain, an embattled apartment building owner, and Henry, the noble architect, this story is a mystery and RomCom all mixed into one. The secondary characters are as funny and quirky as the main characters, the setting is beautiful with enough descriptive details to make me feel I was there, and the unfolding drama of the bad guys about to take over had me wishing I could jump into the book and kick… some sense into them.

Cain may be desperate to save the building he has inherited from his grandmother, but he still manages to have fun. He is also an inspiration to his tenants, and never whines for a moment. I admired his tenacious willingness to try everything, his refusal to give up despite the odds being totally against him, and was happy for him when meets Henry. The man is clearly good for him, succeeding to make him laugh yet helping him to gain clarity about what he needs to do to save "La Terraza".

Henry is a great guy, even though it takes him a while to figure out what is going on. He is good for Cain, devoted and loyal, not to mention exactly what Cain needs between the sheets. His career as an architect is important to him, but it never seemed to overpower him. As soon as he figures out what is going on he does the right thing, and the fact that he prioritizes his relationship with Cain over everything else made me smile. He is exactly the guy Cain needs and deserves.

These two are hilarious together, yet they are also very clearly in love with each other, almost from the start. Cain just happening to be cleaning some drawers when Henry might need space for his "spare" clothes that seem to have taken up residence in Cain's apartment made me laugh. The pain each of them feels when it looks as if the bad guys will win and everything threatens to fall apart under the pressure Cain is under had me yelling at them not to be stupid.

If you like stories that make you laugh, if you enjoy reading about very lifelike characters who are not always as clever or well-spoken as you might expect, and if some underhanded manipulations from the bad guys are a s likely to make you laugh (once they have been vanquished, of course), you will probably like this book as much as I did.




NOTE: This book was provided by Resplendence Publishing for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews. ( )

I loved this! Loved the two MC's, and the tenants of La Terraza were hilarious. Great dialogue and humor throughout. Sweet love story, plus, the sex was off the charts hot! Can see myself rereading this in the future.

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Ethan Day is like a bag full of happy. The story is sweet, the characters are always fun and I am always happy reading his work. ( )

*I won a copy of this book in a giveaway at Reviews by Jessewave*

I believe this is my third Ethan Day read and I have enjoyed all of them so far. The humor in this book really worked for me with a few actual laugh out loud moments. I really liked Cain and Henry a lot and they were utterly delightful together.

The true stars of the book however were La Terraza itself and it's residents. The side characters in this book were all so much fun. I absolutely loved them. I wanted to live there!

I had a few small issues with the book, predominantly having to do with how the issue with the building got resolved, but overall a really fun read.

There is definitely potential here for future books with these characters and I would definitely be interested in reading them.

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