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Audiobook Review ♥ From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata

December 12, 2018 Angela Contemporary, Enemies to Lovers, Reading Challenges, Reviews, Romance, Sports Romance, Ultimate Reading Challenge 2018

Audiobook Review ♥ From Lukov with Love by Mariana ZapataFrom Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata
Published by Self-Published on February 1, 2018
Pages: 524
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Callie Dalton, Teddy Hamilton
Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Sports Romance
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If someone were to ask Jasmine Santos to describe the last few years of her life with a single word, it would definitely be a four-letter one.

After seventeen years—and countless broken bones and broken promises—she knows her window to compete in figure skating is coming to a close.

But when the offer of a lifetime comes in from an arrogant idiot she’s spent the last decade dreaming about pushing in the way of a moving bus, Jasmine might have to reconsider everything.

Including Ivan Lukov.

Mariana Zapata slays it again with an utterly entertaining enemies-to-lovers story set within the world of professional figure skating. I listened to the audiobook of From Lukov with Love which is 15 hours long (524 pages), and I can honestly say that I didn’t want it to end. Read More

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About Mariana Zapata

Mariana Zapata author

Mariana Zapata began writing love stories soon after she learned how to spell. She probably shouldn’t admit that she started sneaking romance novels from her aunt’s bookshelves way before she was old enough to even understand what it meant when a man flipped up a woman’s skirt… don’t tell her mom. Luckily, she stuck to stories about princesses and princes for a while.

In her teens, she wrote boy band fanfiction (there’s still a website up somewhere on the internet with those masterpieces), and in her early twenties, she picked it back up again with Sookie Stackhouse and Twilight. Eventually, her significant other finally told her to do what she wanted to do and she began working on her original work. Her novels tend to include potty humor, bodily functions, and bad words.

Mariana lives in a small town called Pagosa Springs, Colorado with her husband/best friend, Chris Letchford, and their two well-beloved (and emotionally manipulative) Great Dane children, Dorian and Kaiser. When she’s not pretending to write, she’s reading sci-fi, fantasy, steampunk or historical romance novels. You can usually find her harassing her dogs, being a hermit at home or cracking jokes at the expense of her family members.


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July Ultimate Reading Challenge Review ♥ Tattered by Devney Perry

July Ultimate Reading Challenge Review ♥ Tattered by Devney Perry

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May Ultimate Reading Challenge Audiobook Review ♥ Nowhere but Here by Renée Carlino

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Top 4 Authors Challenge. Penny Reid: First Book Read, or How I Fell in Love with a Genius Writer

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February Ultimate Reading Challenge Audiobook Review: The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon

February Ultimate Reading Challenge Audiobook Review: The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon

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February’s Ultimate Reading Challenge: Tear Jerker

February’s Ultimate Reading Challenge: Tear Jerker

The February theme for the Ultimate Reading Challenge, co-hosted with Collector of Book Boyfriends, is to read a tear jerker. It was a tough decision for me because there are so many great ones, and I tend to get emotionally attached to characters. However, I’m not in the mood for a story where the main character is dying. After many recommendation from friends, I chose THE LAW OF MOSES by Amy Harmon.  Let’s see if I’ll need any tissues. What book did you choose?