A review by booksmartkate
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata

4.0

Vanessa knew she did the right thing when she quit her job as assistant to “the Wall of Winnipeg,” AKA Aiden Graves, one of the country’s best football players. Working for him was the worst, and she has plans for her future that don’t involve that pain in the ass. However, when he arrives on her doorstep with an outrageous and enticing offer, she is sucked back into his world.

This book is a classic enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn romance with lots of witty banter. As Aiden and Vanessa adapt to their fake marriage and discover aspects of each other they didn’t fully understand over the previous two years, they open up in new ways. Like any good slow-burn novel, it is sometimes excruciating, but the payoff is well worth it.

In this new release with an adorable new cover, we are gifted a bonus epilogue set ten years in the future that is a deeply satisfying payoff and correction of one of the hurtful conflicts between Vanessa and Aiden early in the book.