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A review by paxyshia
Float Plan by Trish Doller
adventurous
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
3.5/5 - I liked it and I don’t know if I’d read again but I liked it.
Definitely for you if you like:
- Easy, soft love
- Strangers to friends to lovers
- Sailing
tw: suicide, minor description of suicide, self harm, grief, depression
Anna is greiving after the passing of her fiancé and decides on a whim to take the boat trip they were supposed to take together. She’s determined to complete the voyage planned but after an awful first night of sailing, she decides to hire help to finish it.
She hires Keane, a professional sailor with a warm Irish accent, to help her. Keane is also dealing with how to move forward from a life he thought he had all planned out. As they understand one another’s losses and try to maintain friendly on a small boat, their connection continues to rise. The romance seems inevitable but they still need to continue on how to let go and how to plan for something brand new.
📚
So I liked this one. Just not as much as I thought I would. I got an ARC of the second in the series and adored it and thought I’d like this one too but the pace was just a little too slow. I think it’s fitting though with what grief does to your life and also sailing. Lots of patience, yeah? So I wasn’t too mad about it. I guess this is just a warning to say: It’s slow paced. The second one is definitely a little more lighthearted.
I think maybe the pace would’ve been better with a dual POV, maybe? Maybe that would’ve given too much away, I don’t know.
I did just love how their love was easy. It wasn’t hard or dramatic and filled with anxiety or nerves. It was just warm and knowing and like coming home. Keane was really the perfect man for it. I adored him.
Keane was just so dreamy though and I really loved him as a character. Honestly, loved Anna’s friend Cara and would love to read one about her! Reading these thoughts about Anna and her grief really was… not for the faint of heart. I can’t even begin to imagine the grief she felt and reading those moments of bargaining and anger and sadness was heavy.
I think the only thing I really wanna leave here is this quote because Trish Doller really summed up what I believe dealing with grief is like: “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.”
Grief grows from love. It is simply love with nowhere to go.
Definitely for you if you like:
- Easy, soft love
- Strangers to friends to lovers
- Sailing
tw: suicide, minor description of suicide, self harm, grief, depression
Anna is greiving after the passing of her fiancé and decides on a whim to take the boat trip they were supposed to take together. She’s determined to complete the voyage planned but after an awful first night of sailing, she decides to hire help to finish it.
She hires Keane, a professional sailor with a warm Irish accent, to help her. Keane is also dealing with how to move forward from a life he thought he had all planned out. As they understand one another’s losses and try to maintain friendly on a small boat, their connection continues to rise. The romance seems inevitable but they still need to continue on how to let go and how to plan for something brand new.
📚
So I liked this one. Just not as much as I thought I would. I got an ARC of the second in the series and adored it and thought I’d like this one too but the pace was just a little too slow. I think it’s fitting though with what grief does to your life and also sailing. Lots of patience, yeah? So I wasn’t too mad about it. I guess this is just a warning to say: It’s slow paced. The second one is definitely a little more lighthearted.
I think maybe the pace would’ve been better with a dual POV, maybe? Maybe that would’ve given too much away, I don’t know.
I did just love how their love was easy. It wasn’t hard or dramatic and filled with anxiety or nerves. It was just warm and knowing and like coming home. Keane was really the perfect man for it. I adored him.
Keane was just so dreamy though and I really loved him as a character. Honestly, loved Anna’s friend Cara and would love to read one about her! Reading these thoughts about Anna and her grief really was… not for the faint of heart. I can’t even begin to imagine the grief she felt and reading those moments of bargaining and anger and sadness was heavy.
I think the only thing I really wanna leave here is this quote because Trish Doller really summed up what I believe dealing with grief is like: “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.”
Grief grows from love. It is simply love with nowhere to go.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Self harm