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A review by amandaslittlelibrary
Rachel, Out of Office by Christina Hovland
5.0
Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for an honest review in exchange for an E-ARC of this book! I voluntarily read and reviewed this book, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
I have realized I really love reading about single parents finding love. It doesn’t always work, but in Rachel, Out of Office, it is just about perfect. Rachel Gibson is a single mom to twin boys, Kellan & Brady, while also owning her virtual personal assistant company. She’s very much the usual type of heroine we see in romcoms with a type A personality - ambitious, obsessed with her job, a perfectionist, has her shit together (mostly), but in Rachel’s case, she’s doing all this while raising her kids (with minimal help from their dad, Gavin Frank). Enter Travis Frank, Rachel’s ex-brother in law. He’s described as “a hottie. The worst kind of hottie - the kind who knew it, embraced it, and owned it.” Picture Superman/Clark Kent with a Southern accent. Rachel avoids him as much as possible even though he’s very involved in her kids’ lives, but after Gavin drops out of a family trip to go to Boston with his fiance, she’s dragged into spending time with the Frank family at their lake house. As she struggles to keep up with her work and her boys, she finds herself more and more drawn to Travis and falls for him despite a meddling ex-mother in law trying to keep them apart.
Rachel is hilarious. Travis is dreamy. The dialogue was so funny and sexy, but the details in the narrative were possibly my favorite part. “There was no doubt about it, he was falling tart over toaster for Rachel.” This line and so many others just tickled the heck out of me and I found myself actually laughing out loud a couple of times. I really loved a majority of the characters, and, I know I say this for just about every review I’ve written this year so far, but the female friendships were so fun to read! I’m not sure if the author is planning on writing a series, but I would love to see more of all Rachel’s friends in their own love stories. This book reminded me a lot of Nicole: A Sweet Romantic Comedy that I previously reviewed - the dynamic of the friend groups of both these books were so strong and supportive, and I am here for more of this!
The one thing I did not like about this book? I wish there was more of it to read. I felt like it was a little short at the time, so even with the two POV’s between Rachel and Travis, I breezed through the book and was so sad when it came to an end. It was sweet with some heat and I seriously loved it. Even the characters I didn’t like I would read more about. I personally think it would be interesting for Gavin and Molly, Rachel’s ex husband and one of her friends, to end up as love interests…. Hint, hint?? I really do hope Christina Hovland is planning on revisiting this world and bringing back these characters. Her writing is very vivid and really sucks you in, and it really helped me out of the reading slump I was in.
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.
I have realized I really love reading about single parents finding love. It doesn’t always work, but in Rachel, Out of Office, it is just about perfect. Rachel Gibson is a single mom to twin boys, Kellan & Brady, while also owning her virtual personal assistant company. She’s very much the usual type of heroine we see in romcoms with a type A personality - ambitious, obsessed with her job, a perfectionist, has her shit together (mostly), but in Rachel’s case, she’s doing all this while raising her kids (with minimal help from their dad, Gavin Frank). Enter Travis Frank, Rachel’s ex-brother in law. He’s described as “a hottie. The worst kind of hottie - the kind who knew it, embraced it, and owned it.” Picture Superman/Clark Kent with a Southern accent. Rachel avoids him as much as possible even though he’s very involved in her kids’ lives, but after Gavin drops out of a family trip to go to Boston with his fiance, she’s dragged into spending time with the Frank family at their lake house. As she struggles to keep up with her work and her boys, she finds herself more and more drawn to Travis and falls for him despite a meddling ex-mother in law trying to keep them apart.
Rachel is hilarious. Travis is dreamy. The dialogue was so funny and sexy, but the details in the narrative were possibly my favorite part. “There was no doubt about it, he was falling tart over toaster for Rachel.” This line and so many others just tickled the heck out of me and I found myself actually laughing out loud a couple of times. I really loved a majority of the characters, and, I know I say this for just about every review I’ve written this year so far, but the female friendships were so fun to read! I’m not sure if the author is planning on writing a series, but I would love to see more of all Rachel’s friends in their own love stories. This book reminded me a lot of Nicole: A Sweet Romantic Comedy that I previously reviewed - the dynamic of the friend groups of both these books were so strong and supportive, and I am here for more of this!
The one thing I did not like about this book? I wish there was more of it to read. I felt like it was a little short at the time, so even with the two POV’s between Rachel and Travis, I breezed through the book and was so sad when it came to an end. It was sweet with some heat and I seriously loved it. Even the characters I didn’t like I would read more about. I personally think it would be interesting for Gavin and Molly, Rachel’s ex husband and one of her friends, to end up as love interests…. Hint, hint?? I really do hope Christina Hovland is planning on revisiting this world and bringing back these characters. Her writing is very vivid and really sucks you in, and it really helped me out of the reading slump I was in.
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.