From Lukov with Love

One of my highlights for 2024 already, I loved the humor the sarcasm and both of them

I'm still a bit at a loss for words. Jasmine and Ivan's story touched me. I've seen myself in Jasmine so many times that my heart has been broken more than once. But it was put back together. Slowly and carefully, and reading the last sentence, I held the book tight to my chest and wished it wasn't over yet. But it is, and I couldn't have imagined a better ending to this story.

Absolutes Lieblingsbuch!

Ich hab es auf englisch gelesen und mich sofort in diesen Schlagabtausch von den beiden Protagonisten verliebt. Trotz dass es ein Slow-Burn Buch ist, hab ich wirklich jede Seite genossen und es verging viel zu wenig Zeit bevor es geendet hat. Ich habe das Buch bereits zum Erscheinungsdatum gelesen und geliebt. Perfekt von der ersten Seite an! Ich kanns nur empfehlen! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

!! SPOILERS !! When I say I want banter, THIS is what I mean. They didn’t just slightly shit talk each other. No, they basically bullied each other. But it was awesome. I love figure skating in books. It’s always super interesting, even though I absolutely can’t imagine what all the spins and throws and figures look like. But it has this element that I just love to read about. Jasmine was a very interesting character, very relatable. Sometimes a bit too relatable, because at some points she hit home a b it too much for me. But I think that’s a strength of the author to make the readers see themselves in the character. Jasmine was very human, not one of those ‘I have some small problems but apart from that my life is awesome and easy’ characters. She had struggles and she overcame them. It’s inspiring. Ivan was also interesting. He’s not the typical love interest. I still don’t get where his nickname ‘Vanya’ comes from, but anyway. He was kinda brutal and mean at first, but then so sweet and caring. It was obvious that he liked her and I loved that. The ending was cute. I liked the perspective of them a few (ten?) years later, happily married with children and many won championships and medals. It was adorable. I was so happy for them that they ended up together. This book made me feel a lot. When Jasmine and Ivan had that ‘fight’ over the pictures and when she sprained her ankle, I was seriously afraid of what would happen. When she confronted her dad, I was sad but also kinda proud of her. She’s a character made out of letters and my imagination, so that’s kind of weird, but I’ll ignore that. I felt with her, I was happy when she was happy with Ivan and sad when she was sad. I like it when a book makes me feel. At some points, the plot felt a bit rushed. I know that the book is over 500 pages, so already fairly long. But sometimes, I would’ve liked a bit more of what happened in those time skips. Maybe it wasn’t important, but if you fast forward some months, it feels like the story is a bit lost, like I just jumped over it. But it wasn’t all that bad and it’s the only thing I can criticise about this book. If you like figure skating romance, rivals to lovers, bullying as a love language, happy endings and great chemistry, then you’re in the right place.

Hab bis 4 Uhr Nachts gelesen weil ich einfach nicht aufhören konnte😍

Jeder braucht einen Ivan Lukov ⛸️🌹

Omg Green Flag Alarm !!! 💚 Das Ende war so emotional 😭 so wunderschön 😩🥰 Sehr empfehlenswert wer auf Slow Burn Haters to friends to lovers steht 😁 halber Stern Abzug weil die Kapitel sich teilweise sehr gezogen haben (30-50 Seiten !?) hat mich manchmal bisschen demotiviert. 🙈 aber dennoch klare Leseempfehlung 😋

Einfach genial! ❤️‍🔥

Bookies, ich bin echt sprachlos. Ich wusste echt nicht was mich hier erwartet und wurde so positiv überrascht! ❤️‍🔥 Ich musste ab der ersten Seite an durchgehen schmunzeln weil die beiden Protagonisten einfach mega witzig sind. Also Slow-Burn ist hier gar kein Ausdruck! 😂🫣 Und obwohl erst am Schluss die Spicy Szenen kamen war die Spannung jnd die zankerein so witzig und fesselnd das ich nicht mehr aufhören konnte zu lesen. ❤️‍🔥 Ich hab mich kn die beiden Protas mehr als verliebt! Einfach genial! 🤩 Mehr kann ich auch gar nicht zu dem Buch sagen! Es ist einfach genial! 🥰❤️‍🔥🥰❤️‍🔥

War ein schönes Buch, manchmal aber zu lang gezogen.

Ne, abgesehen davon, dass man den Plot auf 200 Seiten zusammenfassen könnte und dennoch den ganzen Plot voraussehen könnte, waren die Charaktere auch so kindlich. Mit eigentlichen 26 und 29 Jahren, haben die diskutiert und werden unreif wie mit 17 Jahren. Und wie kann die Beziehung zu dem dad von Jasmine nach Jahren bitte durch ein Streit geklärt sein? Oder warum musste man das Ende auf krampfhaft mit Spice und 10 Jahressprüngen füllen? Checke ich nicht, habe mir mehr erhofft, bei so einer gehypten Slowburn Romance.

Oh god I’m crying. This book deserves all the stars I can give and more! EVERYONE GO READ THIS BOOK NOW!!!! I was enchanted since the first chapter and it didn’t loose it’s spell on me until the end. Jasmine and Ivan have my heart. I’m so emotional right now! This book was the blue print for an enemies to lovers slow burn you can’t convince me otherwise! The story was magically awesome and so great and the way it was executed and written made it even better. IT WAS SO GOOD. I LAUGHED. I CRIED. I AM AN EMOTIONAL WRECK NOW AND WILL NEVER RECOVER AGAIN! Kill me right now I want a love like these two have!!! It was so good I could go on until forever how good but my words wouldn’t possibly be worthy of how good this book actually is. READ IT IF YOU HAVENT OR IM GONNA FIND YOU AND FORCE YOU TO!