Lavinia's sister left home after an argument with their parents and her dad wants to choose "something worthwhile" to study at university, and she finds herself studying economics. One thing she didn't expect was being paired up with Seb Marconi. She has no interest in economics whatsoever, and prefers Apple products. She is a people pleaser and likes to be positive. From the beginning, Seb, who's an IT programmer and sci fi addict, seems very annoying. I like Lavinia's friend, Giada, though.

This is the first Anna Premoli book I have read, and thought it was an engaging story and well written despite the fact that it's not in Anna's native language. Very nturally written and a good read. I understand first hand what it's like to write in another language as I'm fluent in Spanish, and it's often not easy to get contexts across, but this story is a great read.

Thanks to Anna Premoli and her publisher for a copy of the book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Lavinia is a quiet unassuming student who likes to be nice to everyone but boy, she hasn’t encountered anyone like Sebastiano Marconi before. He is the yin to her yang – and not necessarily in a good way. She has selfies all over fb, he doesn’t use it. She likes popular music, he’s very scathing about it. She likes to get along with people, he has absolutely no inclination to be civil. She lives in her world and he lives in his until, in a collaboration between their universities, they are paired up for a project.

Anna Premoli writes very engagingly. Her characters are wonderfully flawed and even the more minor ones well drawn and very funny! The relationship – or lack of it – between Vinny and Seb is not only entertaining but so very believable, and their families made me laugh! I did feel that it dragged a bit in the middle; there was a lot of repetition with the ‘her trying hard and his being obstructive’ but on reflection I think that perhaps it was essential to the story.

Stuck With You is an enjoyable, light-hearted read and one which will leave you with a happy feeling. If you fancy a nice easy read then this is one for you.

My thanks to publishers Aria and NetGalley for sending me an arc in exchange for my honest, original and unbiased review.

I really loved this book, it was a fun, lighthearted romance between a girl determined to have everyone like her and a boy who would rather be himself no matter what anyone else thinks.

I really loved the nerdy references in this, my fiance is a web developer so Seb reminded me a lot of him at times. Lav slightly annoyed me, she could be very shallow and selfish, while also having no backbone in most aspects of her life. I really liked the dynamic between the two of them though, as although I feel like Seb was supposed to start of as an unlikable character, I really had a lot of respect for him, and I liked that Lav wasn't a pushover when it came to her interactions with him. I really enjoyed the ending and I'll probably pick up more from this author when I need something fun and lighthearted.

The only criticism I have is that the writing was very formal, the characters felt a lot older than they were and there were some words that I wouldn't expect to be used as they were. English is not the author's first language though, so I'm not as annoyed about that as I normally would be.

A nice story but a little bit difficult to get into.
The language didn't always fit the way we talk naturally but still a nice romance.
Lavinia and Seb's story is set in Italy and they both are students from two different universities (business and engineering). After a projetc throws them together they develop a slow relationship from hate to love.
I received this book for an honesst review from NetGalley.

Stuck with You is a story about two students in Milan, Lavinia and Sebastiano, who are required to work together on a project in their last year of university. Neither one wants to do the project, but it will give Lavinia some much needed extra credit -- if only she can get Sebastiano, with his superior attitude and rigid schedule, to cooperate.

There is a certain awkward charm in this book. From what I've read, Anna Premoli has several popular Italian-language novels. I don't know if she enlisted the help of a translator for the book (I didn't see any reference to one), but I'm willing to bet that she wrote it in English herself. There is a stiltedness to the writing that makes it clear that English is not Premoli's first language. She mixed British and American slang with what sounded like Italian slang translated into English. There was also word usage that didn't seem to fit at all. For instance:

"No, but it's your fault that you insist on not pushing the beds closer together. If we accosted them, we would have a bit more space."

The word "accosted" does have an ancient definition of "side by side" but most English speakers wouldn't use it this way. Once I started reading this book with the same mindset I use to watch Korean dramas (with all their delightful foreignness), I started to enjoy the book more. Even using my Kdrama lens didn't make the sex scenes easy to read, though.

Even with the stiltedness, there was some charm to this book. My interest in the situation itself kept me turning the pages, despite the awkwardness in the writing. Some of the banter between Lavinia and Sebastiano was cute, and I kept rooting for Lavinia to break through his defenses.

This can be an enjoyable romance, as long as the reader remembers that it is not written in the average American or British style. That can be refreshing sometimes, can't it?

Three and a half stars. Hmmm, a difficult book to rate.

I love Anna Premoli but her books, for me, have been very uneven. She is not a native English speaker and that comes across in her writing, she tends to use longer words than a native English-speaker would do.

This book is set in Milan, Italy. Lavinia is a people-pleaser, the antithesis of her older sister who has left home after an argument with their parents. Lavinia is in the final year of her economics degree (chosen by her father) when their professor announces that the final project will be a collaboration with students from the computer engineering department of a rival college. Already horrified by the news, Lavinia is dismayed when her 'partner' Sebastiano outright refuses to participate, claiming he doesn't need the extra credits.

Lavinia is a perpetual smiler, she likes chart music, social media, Apple products and romantic comedies. Sebastiano is a hard-core programmer, he scorns all the big name global IT brands, he enjoys LARPing and sci fi. But Lavinia is also persistent and she slowly wears Seb down by stalking him.

I liked this because it was different. Set in Italy, discussions of cryptocurrencies, realistic descriptions of kissing, it was all good. Then there would be the odd jarring note - for example not knowing what LOL stands for. Also, and perhaps because of the aforementioned non-native English speaker issue, Lavinia and Seb seemed very young, more like 16 or 17 than 21 and 22.

I enjoyed this but it wasn't my favourite book by the author.

Despite being an Italian book, the translation was one of the best I've read. That being said, I found this book extremely depressing!

I haven't read a story with quite this plot line. I loved the opposites attract storyline. I also enjoyed the buildup. I found that so many times stories rush through the story and the journey of the characters. I felt the length did the story justice.