This is the best romance book I've read in a very long time.

I was completely swept away by Noah and Jason's story. The first 40% or so read like a psych thriller. The mystery, the suspicion, the clues...oh my word, I was a nervous wreck. Where was this story going?

Then, bam! the surprise and all of a sudden I was reading something completely different but no less enthralling.

The last half of the book had me holding my breath for a different reason. I hurt, I ached for the loss and the mess that couldn't be cleaned up. My eyes teared up. Oh, I hate that. But, it was that emotional. Then it wrapped up and I was thinking this was a fantastic book.

Yet, there was more!!! The cherry on top. Heck, it was whipped cream, nuts and a cherry on top with that epilogue that left me feeling all gooye and sweet.

I just want to read it all over again because how can the next one possibly measure up?

I just couldn't get into this book.
I skimmed a little bit to see what was what because I thought something was up with Jason, and it turned out to be Noah/Nate. It seemed overly villainous too me and just way to unrealistic. Yes, yes, I know it's fiction, but some things are just "too much for me" and this was one of them.

I will say though, that when I read the part of Nathan's breakdown, and Jason confronting him, I was actually in tears, so there is something there. It just didn't grip me and hold my interest.

2.5*

I've been looking forward to this A LOT ever since the series was announced.

The book starts with Noah Landers waking up after a bad fall. He's snowed in, in Jason O' Reilly's cabin and has no memory of who he is, how he got there, who Jason is or what happened. It's all gone. Jason is trying to help him, caring for him so he can heal but Noah is suspicious because some things don't make sense to him.
Slowly he gets his memory back and starts to remember little snippets of the past until he wakes up and remembers everything; including some unexpected truths.

I'm not going to specify what because I really don't want to spoil anything. But there is a twist to the story I definitely didn't see coming and only had suspicions about 10 minutes before it was revealed. That reveal changes the book quite a bit, but not in a bad way.

The development of the story felt a bit slow at first because we only get Noah's POV.
It makes sense to keep things secret, and when you know what the twist is the build up makes sense and is necessary, but before I knew what happened I would have liked Jason's POV to get a bit more information and clarity. As a reader we're probably supossed to be unsure about the characters to add to the mystery, but because I was so unsure about whether Jason was lying, or Noah, I had a harder time getting into their love story/feeling it. That came rather abrupt. Though I'll say that there was no doubt about the feelings between them during the "reveal scene". Because that made me tear up a bit.

The story does pick up A LOT of speed after the reveal and that was the moment when I absolutely couldn't put the book down. I needed to know how it played out, how they'd get their happy ending and stayed up way past my bedtime to find out. So while the "before" is a bit slow, the "after" definitely makes up for it.

Whiteout is a great start to a series and I'm really looking forward to the next book & more from this author! Recommended!