Review: West Side Love Story by Priscilla Oliveras

Rating:4/5
Tropes: Re-telling, enemies to lovers, forbidden,
PoP: Fade to Black

I unique modern day retelling of Romeo and Juliet.  I was enthralled with this story! 

Mariana Capuleta and Angelo Montero are star-crossed lovers.  Their families have a decades old feud that is still leaving heartache in its wake.   

Mariana and Angelo are so drawn to each other and have truly deep feelings for one another.  The loyalty towards family was so powerful in this book, but it did not seem to squash their connections.  Their time on the page is so complicated but charming and I just adore them both.  The connection between these two is strong and so well written. 

There is so much in this book that was well done.   It’s just slow enough to build up the tension between the characters. The author does a great job of creating chemistry and heat on the page, there is also so much pining between her love interests, which I adore.  These scenes do fade to black.

We have the family connections of the Capuletas. I love how things work in their home, especially with how they adopt children in need and emersed into the family.  While this story is very focused on the Capuletas I really wanted more of the Montero Family’s dynamic.  I am totally charmed by the San Antonio setting and the musical prose that are used with in the  mariachi scenes.  The huge cast of secondary leaves truly added so much to the story and just enhanced the couples HEA. I am desperate for the other Capuleta sisters to get their HEAs. 

This was a really well done re-telling and is a great step from genre fiction to romance. There is so much in this story that there is something for everyone.  You should absolutely add this to your TBR.