With the Wildflowers: A Novel (Tres Fuegos)
Before love can bloom, it needs somewhere to take root.
Martina González and Jacinto Williams have been friends forever. The kind of forever that starts in childhood and stretches all the way into messy, complicated adulthood.
Martina feels stuck in her small-town life, working at her family's café and watching her friends chase big dreams. Jacinto, charming and steady on the surface, avoids anything that feels like permanence and instead opts to flutter from project to project to keep him entertained.
But when a rumor puts them in the spotlight, they do what any pair of lifelong friends would do: pretend to date until things cool off. Harmless, right? Except the kisses start to feel too real and the late-night conversations hit too deep.
As their bond deepens through quiet moments, lingering touches, and unexpected vulnerability, both must confront their fears: Martina's of being left behind, and Jacinto's of finally wanting something he's terrified to lose.
With the Wildflowers is a tender, slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance about growing up, letting go, and falling for the person who's been there all along.
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Community Reviews
Thank you to the author for giving me an ARC for this book. Unfortunately, I had to DNF 30% in.
This book read as though the characters were 15 years old, not almost 30. The author could not tell you enough times that the MMC was a “class clown who could never finish what he started” and that the FMC would never not be known as “coffee shop girl” and that she wanted more for her life. I really could not stand how whiney she was about how she’s not living a fulfilling life. Like ok girl, then change it. Let it be known that I also have bias. I don’t typically like fake dating, small town, or friends to lovers. The reason for fake dating HAS to be good and reasonable for me to tolerate it. When I tell you this man said to her “let’s fake date so people stop pitying you”. EXCUSE ME? Rude. I did not like him after that. I also did not read the first two books. So unless the first two mention Jacinto and Martina’s friendship a lot, we are going based off of nothing. It says in the book that they have been “friends forever” several times but never actually shows you their friendship or any chemistry whatsoever. It felt like “they’re besties, trust me”.
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