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Float Plan by Trish Doller

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0shelfcontrol's review

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I LOOOOOVED this book!!! I brought this along as one of my vacay reads for my trip to the Caribbean, and let me just say, matching your vacation read to where you are vacationing is a different level of having an immersive reading experience! Aside from that, its a shorter book than what I’m used to, and it read really easily. Not to mention that the love interest is a hot Irishman, AKA my weakness. I will also say that this romance is a slowburn. I honestly thought it wasn’t going to be since the love interest was introduced farily early in the book and the book itself isn’t that long, however, the first somewhat intimate scene didn’t happen until 80% of the way through, so if you don’t like slow burn romances, this might be a pass for you. Also, the spicy scenes aren;\’t that detailed/graphic.

But the book also does a great job of understanding individuality and being satisfied with yourself before having the opportunity to lose yourself in a relationship, which I greatly appreciated.

Another thing is that this book has a MAJOR TW for suicide, mentions of suicide, and a suicide note, which is quite literally the first page, so PLEASE be cautious about this.
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mels_reading_log's review

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Have you ever just wanted to run away to sun and the wide open sea? This book a sweet romantic story about moving on from past traumas. The author painted beautiful landscapes with her words which brought me such calm and piece and made me want to plan a trip. It was a quick read that I finished in 2 days, definitely the perfect beach read.
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kayleigh_reads_romance's review against another edition

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5.0

10 months after the dead of her fiancée, Anna Beck is still floundering when she gets an alert on her phone remaindering that their sailing voyage was supposed to start. Deciding to throw caution to the wind, she ventures out on his sailboat intending to follow his plan down to Trinidad to the spot that they were supposed to get married. After a few treacherous days at sea, she decides to hire the kind Irishman who helped her out of a drunken encounter. 

What follows is a sweet story about healing, love, and finding your own path, which may have included the cutest dog in the world!!

I thought it handed the discussions of suicide with grace and finesse, and way Anna was able to heal from the experience was beautiful to watch. The novel itself was short, sweet and didn't ramble. There were some spicy scenes but they felt like they were in service to the story and not just smut for smut sake. (Not that some good smut is a bad thing!!!)

5 out of 5 ⭐stars for this!
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collie98's review

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adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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jocelynbold's review

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adventurous emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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ofpagesandparagraphs's review

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adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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csharp7's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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andkellyreads's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

I think I’m going to quit my job and just travel. 

I’m kidding, obviously, but wouldn’t that be magnificent? 

Granted, our heroine begins her journey under far more devastating circumstances, but my dormant sense of wanderlust was kicked into overdrive while reading this book. I will say that I was incredibly annoyed that the blurb didn’t mention at ALL that the heroine lost her fiancé to suicide and just instead said “she lost him” because that was kind of an abrupt slap in the face for me when I started (as someone who has lost someone to suicide) so I’m telling you all here now. 

The heroine sets off on her journey because her fiancé killed himself and that lingers throughout the book. 

The situation was handled well by Doller, and her discussions surrounding grief and how quickly people can move on from something this absolutely devastating and traumatic were spot on. 

<i>The stages of grief are not linear. They are random and unpredictable, folding back on themselves until you begin mourning all over again.</i>

Anna, our heroine, deals with moving on from her fiancé’s death in an incredibly natural and realistic way, and I identified with it. Grief is not linear, there is no timeline, and there is no magic formula for when you’ll feel okay again. In fact, you might never feel totally okay again at all, but that itself is okay, and seeing Anna go through this and process this information and realize that she can live, and that she can be happy and sad at the same time, and that she can have new experiences and do new things even without Ben by her side, was moving and authentic. We grieved and suffered right alongside Anna, but we also learned how to make room for the future and just be free with her as well.  

<i>But I’m starting to understand how sadness and happiness can live side by side within a heart. And how that heart can keep on beating.</i>

Float Plan was not what I expected, but I really enjoyed it. After a terrible solo sail to Bimini from Ft Lauderdale, Anna realizes she can’t make her voyage alone and seeks help. There, on Bimini, she meets Keane Sullivan, an Irish sailing vagabond with a prosthetic leg that he never lets get in his way. Kean was remarkable and wonderful and just so damn nice, and I loved every minute he was aboard that boat with Anna. Their love was such a good slow burn that grew stronger with every flip of the page, and it was lovely reading how Anna and Keane realized that they were exactly where they were supposed to be and with exactly who they needed: each other. 

The one thing that did kind of slip me up along the way however, was all of the sailing terminology. This book was incredibly well researched and thorough, but for someone who has never been sailing before, I felt tripped up a lot when they were describing what they were doing. I felt a bit like Erin from the Office when Andy is teaching her about sailboats, and to be honest, I’m still kind of lost? I respect the hell out of the knowledge Doller dropped about sailing and the islands that Anna and Keane visited, but it was still a bit too expert level for me in some cases.   

All in all, this book will tug at your heartstrings, it will make you angry, and it will make you incredibly sad, but it will also have you laughing and smiling and generally itching to grab your passport and just GO. I am incredibly grateful to have been able to go on this journey of self-discovery with Anna, and I hope you are, too.

<i>I reckon if you stay in one place too long, you might start taking it for granted,” Keane says. “But if you keep moving, everything holds its wonder. At least that’s been my experience.”</i>
  
{Many thanks to Netgalley and St Martin’s Griffin for the ARC} 
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courtneycanread's review against another edition

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5.0

Not sure what I can say other than sleep is very important to me and I sacrificed it so I could spend more time with Anna and Keane. This book is similar to Beach Read in that it is a romance with heavy themes. But oh how I LOVED these characters and how I loved sailing with them. Immediately wish I could read it again for the first time. 
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