There is something about sitting down to chill with a contemporary romance that just satisfies me. Recently I've been on an insatiable contemporary binge. When I hear enemies to lovers, I come running.Ĭafé Con Lychee came at just the right time. Really good friends, not like the other friendships in this book. I think they were more believable as friends. I didn't feel any chemistry between Gabi and Theo. I haven't mentioned the romance part because it didn't feel like there was any. It felt forced and overly dramatic, just like the rest of the story. They all came off as very self-centered and there was some conflict with each one of them. Their friends weren't any better, either. Nor did the the way Gabi and Theo organized everything to help them. Up to the very end they didn't lift a finger to do anything to save their businesses. The parents seemed very passive and incompetent and they showed no support to their children. I could give similar examples for almost every character in this book. One example: Gabi's dad openly dislikes Theo because he is his rival's son, then, in a blink of an eye, he thinks Theo is great because he is excellent at soccer and knows how to cook rice, then he dislikes him again when he learns that he is gay. When the characters change their mind, it happens suddenly and it doesn't feel natural. For example, Theo is full of anger and he is mean to everyone, to Gabi, to his parents, to his brother and to his friend, even when there's no real basis for him to feel that way. The author goes to extremes to show what they are like.
The characters are two-dimensional and there's almost no character development throughout the story. This sounded interesting in theory and the beginning of the book seemed promising, but the author's writing style didn't work for me. When he sprains his wrist and Gabi gets roped in to help, they realize they need to work together to save their parents’ shops but will the new feelings rising between them be enough to send their future plans up in smoke? Then Theo has an idea-sell photo-worthy food covertly at school to offset their losses. Between the Mori’s struggling shop and the Moreno’s plan to sell their bakery in the face of the competition, both boys find their dreams in jeopardy.
Forced to play soccer to hide his love for dance and iced out by Theo, the only openly gay guy at school, Gabi’s only reprieve is his parents’ Puerto Rican bakery and his plans to take over after graduation.īut the town’s new fusion café changes everything. Gabi Moreno is miserably stuck in the closet. Leaving Vermont for college means getting away from working at his parents’ Asian American café and dealing with their archrivals’ hopeless son Gabi who’s lost the soccer team more games than Theo can count. Sometimes bitter rivalries can brew something sweet
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