Genre: Rom Com
Length: 10 hrs 33 min / 320 pages
Spice Level: 🫑/🚫
My Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️!
This book was recommended by and added to our traveling book club for 2026 by @books.with.bacon and was an absolute DELIGHT to read!!
Summary (from Amazon):
Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past―now she may be lighting her career on fire. She has two choices: wait to get laid off from her job as a video producer or, at her coworker Cole’s request, take a career-making gig profiling Tom “Hutch” Hutcheson, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Key West. The catch? Katie’s not exactly qualified. She can’t swim―but pretends that she can.
Plus, Cole and Hutch are brothers. And they don’t get along. Next stop: paradise! But paradise is messier than it seems. As Katie gets entangled with Hutch (the most scientifically good-looking man she has ever seen . . . but maybe a bit of a love hater), along with his colorful aunt Rue and his rescue Great Dane, she gets trapped in a lie. Or two.
Swim lessons, helicopter flights, conga lines, drinking contests, hurricanes, and stolen kisses ensue―along with chances to tell the truth, to face old fears, and to be truly brave at last.
My Review:
I was ever so grateful for this book as I listened to it in its entirety on a long road trip on the way back from Florida! It completely grabbed and kept my attention the whole time and I found myself fully invested in Hutch and Katie's will they/won't they relationship journey. This is a rom com that had so much substance and great life lessons that would be relatable for many. Katie's path to loving herself was just as important as the one toward Hutch. The theme of body positivity was paramount to the story, as well as aspects of found family and forgiveness. Perhaps my favorite part of the story was Hutch's furry sidekick, George Bailey. I love an animal side character, especially when they are integral to the main couple's journey toward each other. This was such a great book and this will definitely not be the last book I read by this author! 😍
❓️Have you ever been in or very near a natural disaster (hurricane, tornado, flood, etc.)?
6 months agofantasticalbinds
I’m hoping to get to this one next month! I love everything Katherine Center writes!
6 months agoc.raes.read
I’ve enjoyed a few of her books! We have flooding every year in our town in the spring since we’re by the Mississippi. And also tornado warnings in the midwest. Thankfully never experienced one near us though.
6 months agopages.shredder
This is yet another one on my TBR. 😅 Fingers crossed, I have not. We have had some wild ice and snowstorms though. And a tornado was close to us a few times, but not enough to do damage thankfully.
6 months agochips_and_things
Thankfully no! I’ve experienced a couple of earthquakes and that was enough for me.
6 months agothepinkpapersofficial
I was in a big earthquake in Newport Beach … it was scary because it came out of nowhere and I wasn’t sure what to do while it was happening because I wasn’t in a restaurant. 😮
6 months agoaleciareadsitall
I’m so glad you enjoyed this one! Not really. When I was six there was an insane ice storm that shut everything down for like a week but that’s it
6 months agowhatmrswifireads
I loved this one!! Just finished her new one too and it was cute as well!
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