Instead Lana is now relegated to sharing a wall with the annoyingly sexy man and his loud, thumping music.īut fate steps in and delivers the blue screen of death to Lana’s laptop just as she is in the middle of a big work project.

Unfortunately this resulted in her losing out on the end unit she wanted when carefree, living-for-the-moment Emilio swoops in and snatches it up. Lana plays by the rules and examines everything from every angle before making any decision. Especially with the current condition of the world, all romance books with their guaranteed happily ever afters are a staple in our mental and emotional diets, but something you can quickly devour and get the pick-me-up that you need? That redefines essential.Įmilio and Lana are about as opposite as you can get. Nothing in the epilogue gives any clues as to how they got there other than great sex.īeing Cordial is the third book in the Desert Rose series by Meka James (check out Being Neighborly and Being Hospitable if you haven’t yet had the pleasure) and is the short, fun, sexy read you need in your life immediately. At the last chapter Emilio has only just gotten Lana to agree to give them a try even though she finds him annoying and the epilogue jumps to 6 months later with them in love, practically living together, and getting engaged. Maybe if BEING CORDIAL were longer there would be more time to see their feelings change from dislike to love but it doesn't happen. Spontaneous hate sex I would have understood but that's not what it was. They had so much animosity between them that the first time they had sex it felt very out of place and abrupt.

There was never a moment where I liked the MCs and or even saw a softer side to their interactions. Also, personal note, I'm on Emilio's side about Lana letting her little dog run around the neighborhood that's super annoying, put a leash on your dog please. She never once has a positive thought about him other than sexually related things she complains about his clothes, his loud music, him playing basketball with the neighbor, his muscle car, it goes on and on. Of course it's not all Emilio that's the problem, Lana is also rude and constantly insulting Emilio, often by accident. He says he's a nice guy but I don't see it in the way he treats Lana. Emilio is arrogant and cocky, which isn't always a bad thing, but he's also rude to Lana from the beginning, calling her an Ice Queen to his friend while standing in front of her, making fun of her structured personality and life, and frequently calling her 'bitchy'.

Both the MCs are jerks to each other and I honestly have no idea what they liked about each other outside of the sex. While I enjoyed the first book in this series, I didn't like BEING CORDIAL at all.

Being hospitable by meka james