All Rhodes Lead Here

I really enjoyed this book once I got in to it. It starts off rather slow and Mariana Zapata's writing, the way she describes Ora's inner thoughts, is a little long-winded for me.

BUT, once the story picked up (around Chapter 10 or so), I was completely hooked. I loved the way Ora and Rhodes relationship developed. They both had things to work on and helped each other grow throughout the book.

This book had some really unexpectedly funny parts and several parts that were so sweet they made me tear up.

I read Wall of Winnepeg last year and only thought it was ok. With how much people loved that book, I was very apprehensive going into this Mariana Zapata book because people seemed to like this book just as much. Turns out I loved All Rhodes Lead Here.

I saw this complaint, but it didn't bother me - Aurora does act like someone in their mid-late 20s instead of early 30s. I thought part of that was because she had been in a relationship since she was 19yrs old so she was a little emotionally stunted.

Maybe I missed it early on but I had no idea her ex was a country music star for a solid chunk of the book. The whole time I was imagining a Justin Bieber type.

I love that her best friend Lady Yuki was coded as Lady Gaga. Awesome chill person in her personal life, but kick ass performer.

Amos stole my heart. I loved that the author wrote him as a real teenager. He was moody and secretive, but sweet. He didn't end up getting a crush on Aurora (that god).

Rhodes. Oh Rhodes. The moodiest man but so unbelievably sweet. He was the epitome of grumpy to Aurora's sunshine. These two did grumpy/sunshine perfectly *chefs kiss*

Mariana Zapata never disappoints

I loved this book as much as I’ve loved all her other books! So sweet and cute and just a nice read overall. :)

I was a little disappointed with the convoluted plot of this book I was excited to read a book with a slightly older protagonist who experienced divorce, heartbreak and learned to live her life again, that did happen in the book but I wish her previous relationship would of been idk normal? The superstar plot just seemed like a bit much and made it hard to relate to what she was experiencing and coupled with the the my mom went missing hiking portion of the plot her life seemed a little too dramatic, I think this book would of been better had she went through a normal divorce and had there been more exposition about her growing apart from that relationship instead this dramatic life of the rich and famous plot line

What did like was the pacing, the development of Rhodes and Oras relationship felt slow and natural for most of the book, I mean I think her getting lost hiking twice and him coming to get her was a little much once would of been enough, but most of their interactions or what we could call event moments felt realistic and natural and I liked his character and demeanor he really was like the perfect grumpy man

nice