• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2023 February #2
  *Starred Review* Raised by her single schoolteacher father, uninhibited Carla has spent a good part of each year traveling the wild parts of the Americas and beyond. When she's home, she works in a Hooter's-like, pirate-themed bar. Flying to Ireland to be maid of honor in her best friend's wedding is a different kind of trip. She expects to be picked up at the airport by the uptight best man, but instead, Eamon arranges to meet her at a bar, and they end up in bed. The next day, driving across Ireland, they take some adventurous detours involving camping and being terrorized by a bull before joining his large family and her friends, characters from Doller's The Float Plan (2021) and Suite Spot (2022). Sizzling sex and a sharp focus on the measured building of the relationship between Eamon and Carla, from a cute meet to congenial travel buddies, from deep friendship to love, are paired to perfection, while sensitive territory is explored in Carla's relationship with her Vietnam veteran dad who has Alzheimer's. Doller makes complex characters in complicated relationships come to totally convincing life as she makes each novel better than the one before it. Copyright 2023 Booklist Reviews.

TRISH DOLLER is a writer, traveler, and dog rescuer, but not necessarily in that order. She is the international bestselling author of Float Plan, The Suite Spot, and Off the Map. She has also written several YA novels, including the critically acclaimed Something Like Normal. When she's not writing, Trish loves sailing, camping, and avoiding housework. She lives in southwest Florida with an opinionated herding dog and an ex-pirate.