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3.5 stars, rounded up. I adored Float Plan, and while this is a nice story and an improvement over The Suite Spot, it still doesn’t compare to the original. The plot isn’t terribly believable and the emotional depth didn’t venture out of the kiddie pool, but the chemistry was nice, and it still makes for a nice read.

poisonheart91's review against another edition

4.0

Carla Black is a bartender who works part of the year and the travels the remainder of the year. She is full of wanderlust and that way she is fulfilled by being able to travel to her hearts content. She currently finds herself in Ireland for her best friend's wedding and she is meeting up with the best man in Dublin to make the trek to Tralee where the wedding will take place.

Eamon Sullivan loves travel as well, but makes his living my creating digital maps for travel, not because he gets to travel much himself. He's not entirely happy with where his life is at right now, having just gotten out of a relationship, he's not loving his work like he used to and he's finding that his road trip with Carla, the maid of honor, might be happening right on time.

The chemistry between Carla and Eamon is immediate. When they realize they both like the adventure of travel, Carla talks him into taking some detours on the way to the wedding. These detours could change the trajectory of their lives and they may not even realize it. Will they allow it to happen?

This was an enjoyable adventure with two very likable characters. I enjoyed the trip we got to take across Ireland as well. If you haven't read the first two books in the series, this can be read as a standalone without issue, but it's a great series, so I do recommend reading the whole thing.

I received an advance copy of the book from the publisher and voluntarily left this review. #NetGalley

danielcrogers's review

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

elephantsoups's review against another edition

1.25

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was definitely the least based-in-reality book of all of the authors work so far but an irish accent will still get me every time god damnit! The beginning was strong and the irish atmosphere was really beautiful but both were incredibly short lived.

I found myself getting annoyed at the sex scenes, the characters had little-to-no depth, and it’s obvious that the author has never experienced dementia or dealt with a loved one facing issues of that sort. Biggie was unrealistic in the most tragic of ways

and the lack of grief while he was alive along with his unrealistic end had me cackling honestly. Doller had always been bad at endings but this one was the stupidest of them allllll

Update after about a week: Initially a 2.25, dropped to a 1.25 after sitting on it.

I remembered that the fmc said some goofy shit like “how did he know ___ with the lights on is my kink!” and then again that talking is also her kink. Those aren’t kinks. That’s not what that means. Also it was boring. As boring as believing that talking counts as a kink. For being a self called slut and working at an au hooters she really is unknowledgeable in how adult people are attracted to eachother. Call it a character flaw or call it piss poor writing- your choice!

If this wasn’t a reunion of all the characters I missed previously (ummm from book 1, book 2’s characters got what…. 2 sentences and named once??) I totally would’ve dropped my phone in a lake and ran away.

a_ab's review against another edition

2.0

This book had some real potential, but the annoying aspects of it ended up outweighing the positives for me.

The story is written from the perspective of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl(TM). This could have been a chance to give that character trope some depth and, you know, actual character. But not in this book.

This is my first book by this author, and unless this is a wild outlier in her work, it will be the last. She appears to think that descriptive sex scenes is an adequate substitution for character and relationship development... — even her characters on page recognize that sex alone is unimportant enough to be referred to as "just sex", and yet the author persists in frequent descriptions of all their sexual interactions on all the imaginable and unimaginable surfaces as if that were of any significance to the plot or the relationship they could have.

Having wasted all that page space on the coital shenanigans, the author then had to resort to literal kitten saving and tearjerking drama in hopes of giving these characters some semblance of definition.

After several days worth of sleeping together and avoiding their direct responsibilities, the characters are deemed to be sufficiently "in love" to separate and pine from a distance while miraculously curing all their flaws and problems through a handful of deep conversations — just in time for a plot-convenient death of a secondary character who represented the main responsibility for the heroine. So now the "love birds" can reunite and go gallivanting off into the sunset.

That was not my idea of a good book.

gwynt's review against another edition

5.0

It's been a long time since a book made me cry, and I think I was more invested in the father daughter relationship than the romance, but so so good either way.