BOTM Monday: The Paradise Problem

Author: Christina Lauren
Title: The Paradise Problem
Publisher: Gallery Books
Date Published: 05/14/2024

Read Dates: 05/22/2024/- 05/24/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

This was my Book of the Month club pick for May. 

The Paradise Problem is a dual POV marriage of convenience romance. Anna and Liam married for cheap family housing in college and then went their separate ways. Three years later, Liam realizes he needs Anna’s help to convince his family he’s still happily married in order to secure his trust, and Anna realizes that they never got divorced! Anna has some conditions of her own, but agrees to accompany Liam to paradise for a family wedding. Their strictly drawn lines might as well be drawn in the sand though, as the two begin falling for each other on vacation.

This one was a lot of fun! I loved Anna’s willingness to live life on her own terms and to be selfish for those she loves. I loved Liam’s determination to do the right thing and watching him fall for his wife! They were fantastic couple and the side characters really helped to develop the story. As usually, if Christina Lauren writes it, I’m almost guaranteed to love it! 🌴🩷💚

Christina Lauren, returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance.

Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways.

Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch.

Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents—his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.

But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.