The Worst Best Man

First of all, I would like to say that I'm a Brazilian women and I could not be any more happy for the right representation in this book. At first I was like, "well, okay. Brazilian protagonist. She is gonna talk about how Brazil is hot, and pão de queijo, and brigadeiro, and beaches. That's alright". You see, I was not expecting such a good representation. Mia Sosa gave me more than the usual, cliche kind of thing that other authors usually gives us, Latin people. Of course there were a few things I thought "we would never say like

that here. It's way too formal!", but, you know what, dude? I don't care at all. Mia Sosa researched about Brazil's history. I was

so impressed by that. So this really big paragraph is to thank Mia Sosa for this.

"Are you aware that Brazil didn't abolish slavery until 1888, and that almost four million enslaved persons were brought to the country during the slave trade?" (...) "Some believe it started in the quarters of enslaved people," Raul Says, "or in the quilombos, which were the settlements founded by those who escaped slavery. The idea being that the people battling could hide this form of training by making it look like a game or a dance. Today, we know it as a martial arts form, and as a symbol of Brazilian culture."

Now, about the romance. The enemies to lovers of this one didn't please me, the building of the romance really made me kinda bothered because til very late in the history (for me) they didn't communicate! But soon as they did, it got better to me.

As individual characters, we can see their grownt as the story went. But I wish Max things were more developed, because for me it seemed like she was focusing so much on Linda that she tried solving all of Max's problems in the end, and the very last end. That just didn't work for me. & , by the way, I didn't liked the ending. It felt rushed and not good developed, unfortunately.

But I did like the book and I'm excited to read Dean's one.