4.45/5 ⭐Full review on my Blog: The Dacian She-Wolf 🐺UGH ZAPATA STIKES ME AGAIN!And. It. Hurt. Right. In. My. Ticker!When I thought that From Lukov with Love is my favourite MZ book, I had to reconfigure and add Dear Aaron up there on the highest step of the podium together with From Lukov… because it was nearly perfect.Yeah, nearly, you heard me right, I don’t believe in perfection, suck it up.The structure of the book is very interesting – it consists of letters/emails/IMs

Dear Ruron, You have given me impossible standards to even consider getting into a relationship.With love (and maybe a little envy),A fangirl Although the epistolary exchange was only about 40% of the entire book, I loved it more than Ruby's POV. She was perfectly nice, but the e-mails were more articulate, a lot less biased and had a quaint charm to it. And definitely added a zing to their budding romance. Also, it was good to read about Aaron's side of things since there's no other chapters fr...

I love Mariana Zapata. She is hands down one of my all time favorite authors. Her last three books have all been amazing and 5 star reviews. I love her unique style, the slow burn, and all of her books have been devour-in-one-sitting kind of books. I think what makes her books so unique is her way of writing about real people and her characters are so easy to connect with. I’ve known since the author announced it on FB that this book would be different. I didn’t know exactly how different it wou...

Review before reading the book:Oh my god.Did you guys know???That this was happening???New book from Mariana Zapata?Can I have this now, please?Review after reading Dear Aaron:I'll try to be nice because... Mariana Zapata. Now, I'm sure you know how much I love her previous works 'Kulti' and 'Winnipegg'. The characters are intricate and layered. Their problems are multifaceted and in general the slow burn romance was believable and to die for. Not only that but, the female characters were strong...

4.5 StarsRuron Forever!! My first Mariana Zapata read, and I adored it!!I will warn you, one does need the “patience of Job” to get to the nitty-gritty passionate part of this romance, but for me, it was so worth it! Although this was the S.L.O.W.E.S.T. slow burn I have ever read, the characters, the dialogue (lots of dialogue), the premise of the storyline and Ms. Zapata’s writing style is superb! My anticipation for the HEA was all consuming!!I also have a weakness for a man in uniform, especi...

4 stars! Full confession, I totally went into this book knowing mini spoilers. By that I mean I knew the majority of the first half of the book was in epistolary form aka written in emails, IMs and texts. I think it helped knowing that going in, because if I hadn't I think I would have quit this book, and that would be a damn shame. Dear Aaron is a love story between a soldier and his assigned pen pal. Ruby and Aaron meet via email when he is deployed in the Middle East through a letters to sol

Dear Aaron is another great MZ slow burn. Not as good as the previous two I’ve read but still a sweet, emotional, angsty read. This typically would not be the kind of book I would normally read but because it’s MZ I gave it a shot and I’m glad I did. Ruby is quirky and funny and the most adorable but with just enough sass. While I do like Aaron, he’s not up there with Aiden or Kulti. Too much sweet and not enough spice. The only thing I didn’t like about this one was the lack of communication. I...

"Everything is going to be all right." Dear Aaron is another Zapata winning read with slow-burn passion, complex characters, and a heartwarming romance! Ruby Santos was thrilled to have made a new friend through an "adopt a military" penpal program. Aaron, a military man, and Ruby begin emailing and a friendship is formed. When feelings begin to bloom between the two, both are anxious to meet. When they finally come together, there is nothing or no one that could tear them apart. Dear Aa

2.5 starsAh well, this didn’t go as planned. I know that Zapata’s books are slow slow sloooow burn romance but in this case the overall pace was just too slow for me. The first part of the novel is entirely written in an email style format, which was fine in the beginning, but by the time the 25% mark had rolled around, I was starting to grow quite bored. I’ve seen this working in other novels, you know, where you manage to fall in love with the couple and swoon over the guy just because of thei...

Beautiful!!!Mariana Zapata books are freaking addictive, once I start one, I just want to binge read until I’m done, seriously! I still haven’t found a book by her that I don’t absolutely love. She’s the queen of the slow burn, and she’s a master at it. Everything about it always feels so right, the purpose, the anticipation, the non gratuitous sex. It’s just perfect!So, I kinda made the mistake of reading/listening to From Lukov With Love before reading Dear Aaron. I didn’t know there was a con...

4.75Dear Aaron,I love you! I love you so much I could burst! Love,Your lovemuffin xoxo This book definitely gave The Wall of Winnipeg a run for it's money! And it came close! The only complain I have and why I didn't give it the full five stars is because I wanted a longer epilogue. It's not that the epilogue we got was bad, I just simply wanted more. We spend most of the book reading about how they are getting closer, building foundations, connections, friendship and ultimately love. This book

So .. here's the thing, I'm not going to do a huge review. I'm just going to jot down a few random thoughts on this book because I don't know what to rate it. I wouldn't consider this a huge spoiler review, however, I don't like knowing ANYTHING about a book before I go into it, and if this were me reading this review, I would say LIGHT SPOILER ALERT in paragraph 2! OK? Okay! Firstly, this was my first Mariana Zapata read and I. FREAKING. LOVED. THESE. CHARACTERS. I really want to give this book...