Book Review: The Paradise Problem

Last week I read Christina Lauren’s The Paradise Problem and absolutely loved it!

This book follows Anna Green and Liam Weston. 5 years ago when Anna was in college at UCLA and Liam was a graduate student there, they met through his brother Jake. Both in need of university housing, they got married so they could live in the family housing. They got married for legal purposes only and hardly saw each other for the 2 years they lived together. What Anna didn’t know at the time is that Liam getting married also triggered his inheritance. The Weston family is extremely wealthy and own a popular grocery store chain. The Weston children have to get married to get their inheritance from their grandfather and they have to remain married for at least 5 years.

With just a few months to go before the 5 years is up, Liam hasn’t thought much about Anna and vice versa int he 3 years since they’ve seen each other. They would just sign the divorce papers and go on with their lives. But when Liam has to go to a private island in Indonesia for his sister’s wedding and his family is demanding he bring his wife since they’ve been married for 5 years yet still haven’t met her, he is forced to find Anna and convince her to go.

Anna is a struggling artist and when Liam goes to her asking for her help and tells her about the inheritance she decides to go for a two main reasons – she wants to help Liam and she needs the money to pay her dad’s medical bills.

What follows is Anna and Liam trying to act like they’ve been married for 5 years while on a private island with Liam’s family whom he has a complicated relationship with.

I loved the book so much! It’s funny and emotional and such a good story. I loved seeing Anna and Liam get to really know each other and navigate their growing feelings for one another. It made my heart happy to see how they were really on each other’s team and supported each other through everything even when the other didn’t want help or think they deserved help.

And I have to give a special shoutout to the epilogue, because lately I’ve been a little disappointed in the epilogues I’ve been reading and this one was perfect! It was an extended epilogue with little time jumps of what Liam and Anna were up to and I loved it!

This has definitely become one of my favorite Christina Lauren books.

Read this if you want a spicy romcom with the fake dating, marriage of convenience, forced proximity tropes.

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