The rules: no kissing on the mouth, no staying the night, no telling anyone, and above all… No falling in love. All’s fair in love and football… Game on. VIP Series (4 Books) by Kristen Callihan Every time I set eyes on Macon Saint, the reaction was visceral, a punch to the solar plexus. He was gorgeous, sure, but it was his eyes that did it. They burned as if he could strip the skin from my bones and rip right into the heart of me. Both hiding from the world, they seem to push each other’s buttons and not in a good way. However, they finally manage to form a friendship with Emma discovering Lucian’s hidden baking talent. Something that comes to the rescue at a wedding, they attend together. Where they explore their growing attraction to each other. But the road ahead of them isn’t plain sailing, can they make this work beyond their time in hiding? SPOILER WARNING: This review contains spoilers for Dear Enemy as well as Vicious by L.J. Shen, so read with caution.

i couldn't help it ok?? there were just so many cute moments here that i couldn't stop reading ugh. and the fact that the MCs have known each other since childhood and were always enemies, and 10 years later the H is now a famous actor and the h has to work for him as an assistant/chef to repay her sister's debts to the H?Her blatant disdain and attitude is such a relief. It is fresh air. I need to breathe it in deep or suffocate. Or maybe it’s just the devil you know. Sparks still sizzle between Macon and Delilah, only this heat feels alarmingly like unwanted attraction. But Delilah is desperate to keep her weak-hearted mother from learning of her sister’s theft. So she proposes a deal: she’ll pay off the debt by being Macon’s personal chef and assistant. What was good about the book? I enjoyed all the food references. It made me hungry and now I feel like baking some sweets. Delilah and Sam's mother was also a character I liked. Ohh and North, Macon bodyguard was likeable as well, their friendship was cute. Mama used to say the brain can lie to you, but the heart always knows the truth.” I shrug. “Problem is, most of us would rather believe the lie than face the truth.” Bad sibling relationship is one of the worst things in books. I absolutely can't stand it. Why was Sam mean to Delilah you're asking? Well, jealousy... she was jealous cuz she thought their parents loved Del more than her. Yup it's that dumb. I just wanted to punch Sam straight in the face and Delilah for being such a doormat when it comes to her sister. Hero-complex at its worst.

This is a sad day. I was so excited for this book, cause I loved Managed and Outmatched by Samantha Young and Miss Callihan. Dear Enemy is hate to love story that starts when our protagonist were children and expanded into their adulthood. Delilah and Macon hated each other pretty much from the moment they meet. Denn ab der Hälfte war es für mich ein richtiges 5-Sterne-Buch. Die Emotionen, sowohl Hass als auch Leidenschaft und Liebe kamen so gut rüber und vor allem mit Delilah konnte ich so gut mitfühlen. Es tat stellenweise richtig weh. So muss so eine Geschichte erzählt werden! i feel like ms. Callihan deliberately made Sam and Macon's "relationship" vague cuz she KNOWS there would be a riot if there were details about their sexual relationship in the past (if they were even sexual in the first place).I'm a huge fan of Kristen Callihan's writing - I loved every single book I read by her in the past. She writes with heart and humor, her heroines and heroes are always strong, people who seem real with all their flaws but still so darn likable. DEAR ENEMY falls right into this category. I'm now looking forward to what she has next in store for us. Maybe we get a book about North, Macon's awesome bodyguard? I think he deserves a HEA.

i was a bit weirded out from the beginning when i found out Sam (h's sister) and Macon were childhood "bf/gf" where they dated for years.But for one second there, I thought I was getting what I wanted: “Why do you think I found you so annoying?” Macon quips. “Because you damn well knew we were fakers.” My issue with DEAR ENEMY is more than just in the continuity or inconsistencies (which, fair, could be corrected between now, March third, and the release, March thirty-first). The origin of this pairing begins when they are young, pre-teen or so, and how they meet again ten years after highschool. It's one of those hate-to-love romances where the premise is setting things up one way at the get-go and we seem to be finding things are maybe not as they may seem later on. Someone has secrets, I imagine we'll find there were reasons why certain people behaved in certain ways and they will be forgiven for it, and oh hey, there was always this big connection between them, despite the fact that he dated her sister for other reasons, and blah blah. Ten years later Delilah receives a text that has her trying to scramble to fix her sister’s problems. In the process she comes face to face with her childhood nemesis Macon Saint. It’s been ten years, and he’s all grown up and a famous actor living on the beach in Malibu. They make a deal that will help solve both their problems, but also put them in close proximity. Did I mention that this book has like no plot? I don't even mind it if it's not plot driven, but the romance is not doing the work, the drama is not doing it for me. So the plot has to do it, but there was none. There was an interesting storyline with Macon's stalker, but that went nowhere. At the end of the book it was just mentioned that the Stalker died. Whew, cased closed. Goodbye. Tell me what was the point of the stalker plot line? I don't understand it.