Thank you to the publisher for an eARC on NetGalley and to the author for letting me be a part of the traveling ARC team. 

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TROPES

🥭 Second Chance Romance

🥭 Forced Proximity (crashed on an island)

🥭 Dual Timeline

As someone who grew up watching Lost, this book was immediately on my TBR when I heard about it. It’s something different from what’s usually out there, and I was curious about how the premise would work. How would just the two of them end up on an island? How long would they be there? Would these questions even be answered? They were, and all of it made reasonable sense.

Piper is a great character to be in the head of. She’s sassy and confident, though she doesn’t always let that confidence show in certain aspects of her life. Being on the island with Wyatt, someone she’d been forced to let go of without ever knowing the full story, opens her up in an important way. She’s been a yes woman to her parents, even going down a career path she isn’t interested in just to make them happy. It’s wonderful to see her come to certain realizations, even if it took crashing on an island with her ex to make them happen. 

There’s a great balance between survival and personal growth while Piper and Wyatt are on the island. I wasn’t sure what to expect, since reasonably they were going to be on the island for a short period of time, and there was a lot of emotional baggage to look through to bring the two together again. While those talks and thoughts happened, it wasn’t at the loss of the pair actually talking about how to survive and hunting down resources. It was both a believable situation in what they were eating and the struggles they faced, but also in the deep life thoughts that probably come with that experience.