Lauren AsherRomance · Contemporary Romance
Love Unwritten
Synopsis
Ellie Sinclair, a hopeless romantic and songwriter, finds herself working as a nanny for Rafael Lopez, a workaholic single dad who once held her secret high school crush. Despite their contrasting personalities and Rafael's determination to protect his heart after a divorce, a summer trip forces them into close quarters. As old feelings resurface and lines blur, Ellie faces the dilemma of wishing for more than just a professional relationship, risking a heartbreak song in the making.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10
- My first lauren asher book, and oh wow! Spoilers ahead. 🪭 Lauren asher has outdone herself with this one. I really loved this book, so much that i burnt my maggie while trying to finish this book simultaneously. This is the second book in the Lakefront billionaires series. Plot : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Story :⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Spice :🌶️🌶️ Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tropes : boss x employee, workplace romance, small town romance, billionaire romance. Pacing : slow to medium. Characters : i) Eleanor/ Ellie — Ellie is the sweetest girl, the way she loves nico, takes care of him, and makes sure that nico feels wanted had me melted. The book started slow, but it gradually grew on me. Ellie being Ellie, i don’t even know where to begin, because right now my mind is flooded with the whole book. ii) rafael — rafa being the grumpy guy he is, i loved him, he’s soft underneath all that toughness, and strong exterior. He did grow on me too. 🥺 The plot — the plot was everything and more. Not even once did i feel like that the book was too long, it was perfect, miss lauren knew what she was doing. She captured all the moments of nico, Ellie and rafa. I loved the parts where nico had fun with rafa. The playful fights between them, nico picking hibiscus flowers and tucking them behind ellie’s ear, the way rafael apologized after firing Ellie over something that was not her fault fully. Ellie is so sweet, the way she takes care of nico, even making sure that nico is taken care of should something happen to rafael. Ellie had crush on rafael back in high school, but she never lets that get in her way of her job. She plays, fights, listens to nico as if her own. The best parts where nico is too smart for his age, and i love that boy. The bestest boy. 🥺 My pregnancy kink really loved this book too much. Nico loves Ellie more than Hillary,his biological mom, she always cancels her visits because she had something come up, while eliie outdoes herself with everything she does, and feels for nico. My girl cries everytime nico’s vision fades a bit, and rafael crying over finding out that nico has retinitis pigmentosa. The story starts with Ellie finding out that her friend ava has won album of the year which Ellie had helped cowrite. Nico and rafael’s relationship isn’t close, which makes him jealous, but he fires her for not telling him that nico’s vision was getting black, when collapses in his room. There’s so much I wanna say, but now I’m forgetting everything. 😭 Rafael does apologise to Ellie and asks her to be nico’s nanny again, after nico throws a fit and rafa baby couldn’t see his son sad. The story has so many elements, ava and ellie’s friendship, rafael and Ellie’s relationship, their relationship with their respective parents. Ellie has the best parents, her step dad is such a sweetheart, i loved him, so much so because it was a nice change of character, this book was a package of fluff, and love, my dear heart didn’t have to eat chocolates, the book did it all for me. Ellie’s mom struggling through her divorce with her husband, and then healing and finding Ellie was close to Rafael’s situation. And i loved that reference too, the way julian and the munoz sisters teased them, and the family gatherings, oh it was all so sweet. Rafael was adopted by julian’s parents and he did his best to hide his pain, while living with them, making sure they didn’t feel sad, he kept pretending only for them to know about this pretense and allowing it anyway, where are my tissues? The two week trip to hawaii? Please the way, rafa took care of Ellie everytime she got anxious about flying, why rafa is so kind, might love this grumpy man. I loved nico too, he made the love between rafa and Ellie tenfolds lovely. Hillary can f••• off, and take ava and Darius with her, along with her to be husband. The audacity she has to not visit her own son, giving excuses that she had to plan her wedding, this woman needs to f••• off the planet. Darius and ava can too. Ava stealing ellie’s songs and taking all the credit? Ellie’s going to court and giving her a taste of her own medicine is top tier. Ellie not expecting money she got after winning the case, rather choosing to work herself is so sweet of her. Having a billionaire boyfriend and being a millionaire herself, after cole — helped her with building a case, and finding her a lawyer and wanting her to write an album for him, thank you cole. Also, nico and ellie’s shared love for formula - 1 cars, nico loving Ellie more than his toys and his love for superheroes, someone protect these two + Ellie packing everything nico would want on her trip to hawaii, uh, Ellie the girl you are, i can’t love you enough. This didn’t feel like a book, it pulled me toward it. What I loved : the story, the plot. Everything. I ate this book, lauren ate this book. Need i say more? What I struggled with : nothing. Loveable characters or not : yes, 100000% >>>>> Strong character development : yesss! Plot driven / character driven : plot driven! Favorite quotes/ highlights : literally the whole damn book! Just read the book! But if I had to add some. “with the wave of newfound confidence, i head toward the elevator bank while staying my hips, earning another groan from the man who collects pieces of my heart with every passing day.” “No, but you’re the woman I love, and knowing you were hurting enough to think about it while i sat around, pissed off and if ignoring you, makes me feel like absolute s•••.” (I might post pictures of my favorite highlights of this book on Instragram, but i can’t write the damn book here). Any other details : lake wisteria is such a beautiful name, the pink cover is so good, the acknowledgements at the end of the book, ugh, lauren, you beautiful author, take a hibiscus flower from me too. Thank you for writing this book, thankyou to everyone who contributed to this book, thank you so much for giving me this book. I loved, loved, loved, loved it ! ! ! The Spanish words in between the book, so nice. 🫠🤌🏼 This 612 pages of book was perfection, i loved it too much and connected to ellie’s habit of keeping a piece of mirror with her everytime she had the urge to cut is so me. The little notes with the boxes of gifts rafa gives Ellie was such a touching gesture, this man is not grumpy, he’s just a man who was hurt but has the biggest heart like his girl and son.
- 4.25! POV you and your bestie finish at 600+ page book in one day because you're unhinged Single dad is the key to my heart - even more so when the FMC loves the kid like her own. Full RTC!