“Like football and art, like anything that anyone in the world has ever wanted, love was a dream. And just like a dream, there were no assurances behind it. It didn’t grow on its own. It didn’t blossom without food to feed it. It was the greatest in its subtleties. It was the strongest in its selflessness. And it could be forever with someone who wasn’t afraid to never give up on the possibilities it presents.” - Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Author: Mariana Zapata
Genre: Romance Contemporary Fiction
Reading Level: Beginner
Publish Date: 28th February 2016
Pages: 673
Language: English
Vanessa Mazur knows she’s doing the right thing. She shouldn’t feel bad for quitting. Being an assistant/housekeeper/fairy godmother to the top defensive end in the National Football Organization was always supposed to be temporary. She has plans and none of them include washing extra-large underwear longer than necessary. But when Aiden Graves shows up at her door wanting her to come back, she’s beyond shocked. For two years, the man known as The Wall of Winnipeg couldn’t find it in him to tell her good morning or congratulate her on her birthday. Now? He’s asking for the unthinkable. What do you say to the man who is used to getting everything he wants? - Book Blurb of The Wall of Winnipeg and me
Slow-burn romances are love stories that take their own sweet time to develop. There is a lot of personal character development going on as the love story progresses onwards. These love stories are delicious slow and develop over time and it’s beautiful to read about the ups and downs and how the romance unfolds.
This month’s challenge for #readingwithmuffy was to read a slow-burn romance. It was an apt prompt for the month of February, as February is filled with a sense of romance as Valentine’s Day is around the corner.
The wall of Winnipeg and me is a sweet story of Vanessa and her ex-Boss Aiden who is a very popular football player in the U.S.A. Vanessa starts working as an assistant to this sexy and rude football player, to save up some money before she would start her own business venture. She decides to resign after working for two years for Aiden, in spite of never ever getting even a single “Hi” from him. But soon she finds him at her place with a strange and compelling proposition which will make her spend the next five years of her life with the one person she absolutely resents.
It is not an over-the-top, dramatic, chasing-to airport kinda love story, it’s just a very endearing and beautiful journey of two people completely opposite in their personalities who come together and bond over their past and their present.
I absolutely love the main lead, Vanessa. She is just so sweet and positive and funny. You will fall in love with her as well I am sure. Vanessa is such a strong female character in this book. She is an independent and ambitious woman following her dreams. Fighting her way ahead in life to make a better future for her amidst all the new challenges life keeps throwing at her. I personally love to read books with such strong female leads in contemporary fiction.
“What no one tells you is that the road to accomplishing your goals isn’t a straight line; it looks more like a corn maze. You stopped, you went, you backed up, and took a few wrong turns along the way, but the important thing you had to remember was that there was an exit. Somewhere.” - Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
The writing is so beautiful, it has witty conversations and endearing situations where Vanessa and Aiden, both do such sweet and lovable things for each other during their course of friendship that you feel like they are actual individuals and not mere characters in the book.
“I’m starting to understand that you can always make time for the things that matter.” - Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
If I had one complaint about this book, it would that Vanessa falls for Aiden just as he starts doing the bare minimum for her, which is such a clique but I will let it go cause the chemistry between the two is just too cute.
You must read this book if you like love stories with a little bit of sports put into the middle and a simple yet sweet love story.
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