One upon a time I used to be a snow bunny…. I even worked two seasons on a ski field I loved it so much, so when I saw a book about skiing you know I was going to be signing up to read it.
Oh, I wanted to love this book……I slightly liked it…. It is not smut well unless you read just the epilogue then maybe. It’s more like the slowest of slow burns with a side of milk and cookies and a happy ending.
I really struggle when the main characters get together, sleep together once and are declaring their undying love for one another in the next chapter. Yeah, I know it’s supposed to be fiction, but this felt like it took sooooo long for them to finally get together (think 70% in) that their relationship was squished into the remaining 30% and lost some of its realism.
Colette is an ex pro skier and is now a ski instructor. She is a bit of a homebody and has to be forced out by her friends, she has strict rules that she does not hook up with tourists and usually shoots them down when they try it on while she is trying to teach them how to ski. She meets a guy in the rental shop who is clueless but cute and then she goes to her next family ski lesson and guess who is there with his two daughters and his stunning wife………or is he just the uncle?? Her best friend Jayden (Jay) is hounding her to meet him and his college friend for dinner later on in the week and Colette reluctantly agrees to be Jay’s wing woman for the night.
Garrett is in town to meet his college friend Jay and help him to expand his brewery into a restaurant. He’s set up some dinner with his other mate Cole for Friday night but first he has to help his nieces with their ski lessons for the week. While his brother and Sister-in-law hit the intermediate slopes.
Oh, can you see where this is going? This has the makings of a GREAT story the confusion as to if the hot guy in rentals is married or not, the friend called Cole that Jay talks about, the immediate attraction between two people. It could have been amazing, but it was dragged out too long and Colette spent way too long angsting over her feels her future her friends pretty much everything but then all of a sudden, she gets some and is all in and angsting about if her feelings are the same as Garretts.
There are other couples mentioned in this story and I’m assuming there are other series that feature these couples, If I had an empty TBR and needed a sanity break from Smut, I would probably hunt these down, but I don’t so I won’t. I also get super confused when all the characters have nicknames, but they are also called their full name like you hear all about Collettes BFF Jay and suddenly there is a guy called Jayden being talked about. I either wasn’t paying enough attention or it was just confusing.
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