“Like football and art, like anything that anyone in the world has ever wanted, love was a dream. And just like a dream, there were no assurances behind it. It didn’t grow on its own. It didn’t blossom without food to feed it. It was the greatest in its subtleties. It was the strongest in its selflessness. And it could be forever with someone who wasn’t afraid to never give up on the possibilities it presents.”
– Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Slow-burn romances are love stories that take their own sweet time to develop. There is a lot of personal character development going on as the love story progresses onwards. These love stories are delicious slow and develop over time and it’s beautiful to read about the ups and downs and how the romance unfolds.
This month’s challenge for #readingwithmuffy was to read a slow-burn romance. It was an apt prompt for the month of February, as February is filled with a sense of romance as Valentine’s Day is around the corner.
The wall of Winnipeg and me is a sweet story of Vanessa and her ex-Boss Aiden who is a very popular football player in the U.S.A. Vanessa starts working as an assistant to this sexy and rude football player, to save up some money before she would start her own business venture. She decides to resign after working for two years for Aiden, in spite of never ever getting even a single “Hi” from him. But soon she finds him at her place with a strange and compelling proposition which will make her spend the next five years of her life with the one person she absolutely resents.