I’m a huge fan of this author’s Regency romance novels but this is the first I have read of her contemporary novels. I’ll be checking out more of them after this. I really enjoyed this story. It’s not a groundbreaking departure from the genre’s popular tropes, but there are some fun details with the photography, the extended family, and the beautiful location. It’s well-written and has some fun characters. I was really rooting for the two main characters. The hero was just swoony. The timeline for falling in love was pretty compressed, but the author convinced me that it happened for them. This author is masterful at creating romantic tension that you can feel down to your toes, and this book is no exception. It’s intense and sizzling without the overt sex. I only had two issues with this book. The first was really more a personal preference: when people constantly call their significant other “baby” or “babe”, it’s just…cringe. So sometimes I had to just roll my eyes or grit my teeth when that was happening a lot. My other problem was the reliance on the “big misunderstanding” in the last part of the book. My frustration was somewhat mitigated by the explanation throughout the book of the heroine’s insecurities and how that really morphed her unreasonable assumptions into challenges that even she quickly realized were unfair, even if she stubbornly held out in resolving the difficulties. So I didn’t love that section of the story, but overall it was an excellent book and I recommend it for romance lovers.
