The Rivals By Vi Keeland

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this is your classic enemies to lovers story with romeo/juliet-esque vibes with feuding families and a forbidden romance. whats not to love?

that being said, im glad the focus of the story was primarily on the developing relationship between sofia and weston. yes, there is drama between the enemy families and competing business rivals, but it doesnt overpower the simple story of a boy and girl falling in love with each other, and i appreciate that.

this story is everything VK does right for the romance genre, so any fan will be pleased with this!

↠ 4 stars ebook Mark my words, you will read this and come out agreeing with me: This is Vi Keeland's HOTTEST book ever. Not sure there will ever be a hotter one. You're welcome! <3 Can't wait for you to meet Weston Lockwood! ebook THE RIVALS is LIVE EARLY on Amazon!

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✔️ Enemies-to-lovers
✔️ Decades old family feud
✔️ Two wealthy rival families, one opulent hotel inheritance








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Nice and safe, and I’m marvelling at how much I actually had fun with it! This is a rare occurrence, and that calls for a celebration . . .



I’ve read enough books by VK, including the ones she’s written with PW, to know that they basically just love recycling the same ideas into another one of your run of the mill romances—which honestly is an insult to their talent because these women can effing write!

Naturally, I was apprehensive about this one. But have you seen the cover?? LOOK AT THAT COVER MODEL!! The expression and the way he carried himself, he was practically daring me not to touch the book. And touch I did. In fact, I did more than touching, I DEVOURED IT!

So yeah, I wouldn’t have bothered if it weren’t for the cover. I know, how very superficial of me! 💁‍♀️

I mean, for a book that lacks originality, the least it could do is have a gorgeous cover and a decent storyline—which The Rivals had totally accomplished!

The h falls a bit flat compare to the H who actually has more depth underneath his tall, smart, cocky, and wickedly handsome persona—courtesy of all the sh*t he’s been through that made him enticingly broken and tortured for the musings of us readers who just wanna cuddle him.

The hate aspect is honestly a little iffy considering the reason behind it isn’t of anything real other than they’ve been “conditioned” to hate each other cause their families are rivals. Consequently, I think this speaks for the lack of tension. Still, chemistry and attraction don’t lie. And they have plenty.

I’m not a fan of characters who jump into the casual (hate) sex wagon quickly, but I didn’t mind with these two since they aren’t completely strangers when this book takes place and have actually met (and enganged in a hate sex once) twelve years ago when they were in high school.

The banter is seriously the highlight of this book. I was caught between wanting to roll my eyes, blush, and smile bashfully . . .



You will be greeted by the mandatory romance hurdle at about 80%, but for the most part The Rivals is sexy and drama free. The H only has eyes for the h pretty much since the beginning, and he can be thoughtful and sweet when he doesn’t have his head too far up his arse.

Overall, the book may not offer anything out of the ordinary, and I will probably forget all about it in the coming weeks like I did other VK/PW books. However, it’s well executed as far as I’m concerned, and I had a blast listening to the audiobook. I hope you will too.

(Read as an Audiobook) ebook ***4 STARS***

Vi Keeland does it again in this passionate, enemies-to-lovers romance.

Weston Lockwood and Sophia Sterling are bitter enemies. In fact their families have been enemies for decades since the grandfathers fell out over a woman. Now, Weston and Sophia are working together at the posh hotel The Countess hoping to acquire it for their respected families. Quite the entanglement as to how they came to acquire the hotel and reasons for working together, but nevertheless the are now trying to gain control of the hotel and win the respect of their family heads at the sane time.

Weston was a wonderful hero. I found him charming, boyish at times, witty, sincere, naughty and definitely flawed (which was refreshing). He was not an alpha by my definition but he was protective when needed and jealous as appropriate.

Sophia had to grow on me at first. I found her a little abrasive and over the top with her temper. But she did grow on me and I began to like her spicy nature although I did find her unreasonable at times. Her character was intelligent, independent and comfortable with her sexuality.

Their interactions were intense in and out the bedroom. What starts out as a physical relationship only develops into more. I loved their banter and Weston has a dirty mouth...lol. They have a history that spans years and you really root for their HEA.

Reasons why I didn't give it 5 stars:
I found the interaction between Sophia and her father to be very disturbing. The verbal abuse he heaped on her as well as suggesting she seduce Weston was quite much and I don't feel that this was resolved in the story.

Overall this is a great read and I highly recommend. This is a stand-alone romance told from a dual POV. Vi Keeland is always a pre-order author for me and will continue to be so.

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A sexy, enemies-to-lovers standalone from #1 New York Times Bestseller, Vi Keeland.

The feud between Weston Lockwood and me started at the altar.

Only neither of us attended the wedding, and the nuptials happened decades before either of us was born.

Our grandfathers had been best friends and business partners, at least up until my grandfather’s wedding day—when his bride-to-be blurted out she couldn’t marry him because she was also in love with Weston‘s grandfather.

The two men spent years fighting over Grace Copeland, who also happened to be their third business partner.  But in the end, neither man could steal half of her heart away from the other.

Eventually, they all went their separate ways. Our grandfathers married other women, and the two men became one of the biggest business rivals in history.

Our fathers continued the family tradition of feuding. And then Weston and I did, too.

For the most part, we kept as much distance as possible.

Until the day the woman who started the feud died—and unexpectedly left one of the most valuable hotels in the world to our grandfathers to share.

Now I’m stuck in a hotel with the man I was born to hate, trying to unravel the mess our families inherited.

As usual, it didn’t take long for us to be at each other’s throats.

Weston Lockwood was everything I hated: tall, smart, cocky, and too gorgeous for his own good.  We were fire and ice. 

But that shouldn’t be an issue. Our families were used to being at war. There was just one minor problem, though. Every time Weston and I fought, we somehow wound up in bed. The Rivals

I went in for enemies to lovers trope but there was no enemies part. :/ ebook 3,5 okay ⭐️s

“Tell me what you want.”
“You,” I said. “I want you.”
Weston smiled. “Well, that’s easy. You had me from the very start.”

First of all let's all take a moment to just look at this glorious cover



really



And then, a minute of silent contentment because believe it or not, VK wrote a book without unnecessary drama



Now, yes, no unnecessary drama is great and enemies to lovers is the BEST trope out there, so naturally this should be amazing, but sadly it wasn't.

This is the story of Sophia Sterling and Weston Lockwood and how they hate each other because... I'm not really sure.



So the families are rivals in the hospitality business, and have been that way for more than half a century because of a woman that was in love with both the grandfathers and refused to choose between them. That woman is dead and left her hotel The Countess to both of them, each 49% and then 2% went to charity. Naturally both are out to outbid each other for the 2% to have controlling shares and push the other out, so they each send their best soldier grandchild to manage the hotel, while they assess the hotel value and whatnot.

Apparently, Sophia and Weston hate each other but they really don't have any reason to, tbh. Other than their families being rivals, they haven't even seen each other in 12 years, and the last time they saw each other ended in plenty of orgasms for both. So why the hate??



And if we're going into details, Weston was smitten from the very first page, he has never ever hated Sophia and his love/desire for her were apparent from the very first chapter!!
Sophia really dislikes him and yet her only excuses are arrogant, big ego, hot and enemy of my family. That got old real quick, my friends.
Like he never bullied her, never humiliated her, quite the contrary, always looked out for her so the enemies aspect here was really just not it.



The lack of real enemies to lovers vibes sadly affected the tension for me.
I mean, yes they're hot together, their chemistry is explosive and you really feel it.
But it's just that, desire, even their buildup is not really one of hate, they barely fight or exchange barbs. They tell you they hate each other and that they're hate fucking but really they're just fucking period.

Aside from that, as I said, they're hot, their banter is fun and I enjoyed those parts and they made me smile.



I couldn't really connect to Sophia, and she's not a memorable character. In fact, I already have trouble remembering her lol



But Weston. I felt for him and I really loved him. He's so broken, so lost and so sweet.

“I was never the prince of the Lockwood family. They only had me for spare parts.”

My poor baby, they really hurt him and he really deserves a lot of hugs and tons of love. He totally gave me my sister's keeper vibes.

Sophia wouldn’t get hurt, since she was the tornado, and they tended to move on quickly. It was the volcano that sat around dormant for years on end.

He also might be a vampire, I think. I can't count the times he commented on her creamy neck and the creamy column of her throat that he wants to bite. It was kinda weird but I decided in my mind that it looks like this (i put the sexy gif under a spoiler tag so it won't offend sensitive souls).





Overall, this was still a decent read. So I'd recommend it if you're in the mood for something fun, sexy with a little emotions on the side. ebook


THE RIVALS Is a full length romance book by Vi Keeland. Spoken in 'Dual Perspectives.'

✔️ Enemies-to-lovers
✔️ Decades old family feud
✔️ Two wealthy rival families, one opulent hotel inheritance

Oh my gosh!! I inhaled this one, this captured me from the first page, and the giggles erupted from that point onwards. This was such a laugh out loud, all the feels kind of book. This is probably one of my favourites by this author to date. I loved everything about it and wouldn't change a thing. The banter, the hate to love you but love to hate you romps, and everything in between had me swooning at this authors feet!! I had a goofy smile on my face the whole time reading this, an easy peasy 5 star rating from me..

I can't wait for you guys to meet Weston Lockwook, our gorgeous alpha hero, he's cunning, and quick with the dirty talk, don't be fooled by what you see on the outside because delve deeper and this guy is carrying a lot of baggage which endeared me to him even more so.

Sophia Sterling is trying to prove to her family her father especially that she's the right fit for managing the families hotel empire, just as well as any man can. And with her failed relationship behind her she was happy to jump ship and put her all into the families business.

These two are mortal enemies which spans a generation, since their respective grandfathers fought over a woman. And it looks like the feud is going to carry on, going by their barbed-wire jabs and taunts but underneath all that these two had such compelling chemistry, tip toeing a fine line between love and hate.

ℑ'𝔪 𝔰𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔶 ℑ 𝔧𝔲𝔡𝔤𝔢𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔰𝔬 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔶𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔰 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔤𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔶𝔬𝔲.
𝔘𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔢 𝔢𝔵𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔴𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔰𝔬 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔡𝔩𝔶 𝔦𝔰 𝔞 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔟𝔢𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔦𝔣𝔲𝔩 𝔪𝔞𝔫.

ebook 5 Stars!
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Weston Lockwood and Sophia Sterling both grew up wealthy to family's that were two of the most successful hotel owners in the United States. Although they might attend the same schools and travel in the same social circles, their families were always at war because of a feud that dated back half a century. It all started when their grandfathers fell in love with the same woman. They were best friends, and business partners who held a grudge and continued it with each generation. Despising one another had become a tradition, where they were raised to hate one another.

When the woman who the feud is over passes away and leaves her luxury hotel to both grandfathers, Weston and Sophia are sent to New York to help with the transition and look after and manage everything. Both families jointly own the hotel, but both want control. In the meantime they will be running it together, and have to figure a way to play nice. The problem is they clash at every turn. They've had a love/hate relationship for years, and are like fire and ice, but the one thing they had in common was the love of the hotel business. It was in their blood.

Constantly at war, Weston gets on her last nerve. He's an arrogant playboy who enjoys pushing her buttons, but every time they get angry things heat up between them. He was positively sinful, but she still knew she needed to stay professional and keep her distance. Absolutely no good could come from the intense craziness between them, but soon their mutual attraction becomes overwhelming. It's a bad idea, but once sparks ignite, they form a connection, and the push and pull between them is too hard to resist.

Neither can let their emotions get in the way of business, and have to figure out how to untangle this mess they've inherited. Destined to despise each other before they were even born, can a Lockwood and a Sterling ever put aside their differences? When two competitors realize they've gone from loathing to something real things turn complicated.

The Rivals by Vi Keeland is a sexy, standalone, contemporary enemies to lovers romance full of angst, humor, undeniable chemistry, fantastic banter, and unexpected love. I adored this story!!! It was an easy five stars for me, and yet again reminded me why I love this author's writing so much! Vi Keeland delivers a delicious rivalry with all the feels!



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https://amzn.to/3iTYAVr ebook Ok now this sounds interesting and all her books do. And the cover never a fail.
BUT does this have the dreaded EX DRAMA in it wether alive or dead (Doesn’t matter to me) and the Hero is somehow not over it??? BUT If it does and it’s the Heroine with the ex drama I’m all for it.


Just plain boredom. I skimmed so much. Because I honestly was left thinking is this really all it is. Sofia was annoying she said one thing and even though it but did different. The enemy thing was a joke, the guy right from the start got her dropping panties, she had no self control and I guess that’s suppose to be the case in this book but for me it didn’t work. I never liked the hero. So how can I read on if I couldn’t stand both of them.

And that epilogue was a joke.like I barely got thru the book to get a proposal. I know some people don’t mind those but they do nothing for me. ebook