Release Blitz + Review: "Can't Help Love" by Claudia Burgoa

I'm excited to take part in the release blitz celebrating "Can't Help Love" by Claudia Burgoa, book #2 of the Paradise Bay Billionaire Brothers series. It's a spinoff of the Spearman Family series, but each book reads as a standalone.

 

Maia Ocampo and Gatsby Spearman dated for nearly a year when they were both college students at Georgia Tech, but when his father died unexpectedly, he ghosted her. The day he left was also the day they were supposed to give a joint presentation that counted for the majority of their grade, in effect determining whether she would keep her scholarship for the coming academic year. When Gatsby didn't show up that morning, Maia had a severe panic attack that landed her in the hospital, and she later transferred to Caltech to finish school closer to her family. She hasn't forgiven or forgotten Gatsby in the years since; in fact, she's come up with the perfect plan to get revenge on him for the way he left, as well as the fact that he sold the dating app they came up with together in college and made millions. Meanwhile, Gatsby has spent the intervening years helping to raise his younger siblings and building his tech company, founded on the success of that initial app. When he learns that he and Maia are now competing to purchase the same project management app, Gatsby sees his chance to win her back. 

 

For the most part, I enjoyed Maia and Gatsby's funny, sweet, and emotional second chance romance. They had a ton of chemistry even after being separated for fourteen years, and the push-pull between them was fantastic. They had a lot of misunderstandings and hurt feelings to work through, and while some of them were understandable, I never really wrapped my head around how Gatsby could possibly be so blind as to not understand why Maia was so angry with him. How would he feel if the person he loved just up and left him without a word of explanation? Not only that, they created the dating app together; what made him think it was OK to commercialize it without her? While I would have liked to see him grovel a bit more for all of that, I have to admit that he did a good job of showing her he cared through his actions and the way he treated her family like an extension of his own.

I recommend "Can't Help Love" for all contemporary romance fans and look forward to the next book in the series.
 

*Review copy provided by the author. All opinions expressed are my own.   

 

 

About "Can't Help Love"

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Claudia Burgoa continues a billionaire romantic series in a second chance enemies-to-lovers story that’ll leave readers laughing and swooning!

They’ll get their second chance at love… if they don’t kill each other first!

If I ever cross paths with Gatsby Spearman I might just push him from the tallest building in San Francisco.

Saying that I don’t like him is an understatement—I hate him.

The prick ghosted me in college, stole the program we created to start a billion-dollar company—oh and I failed a class because of him.

I want revenge. And I want it to be petty.

I created an infallible five-step plan to make him pay for what he did to me.

1. Destroy his company.

2. Hire him out of pity.

3. Make him fall in love with me.

4. Rip out his heart.

5. Ghost him while he’s crying from a broken heart.

Simple, right?

Except, I didn’t take into consideration the old college chemistry rearing its ugly head and bringing us closer together despite everything we do to fight it.

I want vengeance, all he wants is to flirt.

Though, I don’t plan on falling for his antics.

I’ll play this to win.

Let the games begin.

Can’t Help Love is a sexy, fun, at times angsty enemies-to-lovers billionaire romance that’s the perfect combination of seduction and sassy with a couple who live to torture each other!