I received this book from NetGalley in exchange of an honest review,

Willa is twenty-two years old and lives in a small island in North Carolinia. Apparently she has the perfect nautical life. She lives in a cottage with her roomate and best friend Bodhi, works in Bodhi's family's sailing store and has a popular Instagram account on sailing. The main problem is that she can't sail, she never has, but has, somehow, convinced everyone she was able to sail, but stopped for a shoulder injury.
When her online followers sign her to compete at the High Seas, a national sailing championship and people from the island offer to sponsor her, Willa's curated and perfect life is threatened. The only desperate thing she thinks to do is asking Lane Cordova, a four time High sea winner, who recently decided to retire and work in her family's estate business on the island, for help. But Willa already run into (literally) Lana and when the cold and older woman accept to train her they start a complex and complicated relationship.

I really liked Tack & Jibe, the plot was interesting and I liked the sailing theme, so new and fresh, I learned a lot of things! The characterization was really good and I liked a lot Willa, Bodhi and Lane and the diversity. The relationships between the characters are amazing, fresh and interesting. There is angst, pining, age difference, two very different character that find one other.
Bodhi is humorous and funny and the relationship Willa has with her and her family is sweet. The writing style was engaging and the setting fascinating.

This book was for the most part really enjoyable. I liked the writing styles and the characters were fleshed out. My issue with this book was sadly the romance. Thankfully despite it being a romance book it is full of other wonderful things.

Why I didn't enjoy the romance? Even tough I did like our main character Willa and her love interest Lane I didn't really believe there romance. I just did not see the connection and it was quite predicatble. I also wished the plot point of the sailing competition was a bit later in the book. It would have helped the pacing and ending of the story.

My favourite part was definitly the island and all the nautical themes throughout the book. It was such a joy! Also the characters where so diverse and the bi/pan/gay rep was fantastic in this. A lot of f/f romance and not to forget also the mention of polyamorous relationships.

Overall it was still a great book and I would recommend it as a summer read!

The book was enjoyable and the protagonist's struggles are entirely too relatable to a wider audience of younger millennials fresh out of college and feeling lost. Her relationships with her best friend and roommate were humorous and heartwarming. The sailing theme was interesting and will no doubt make the book a great summer read. However, the plot and romance felt entirely predictable and slightly boring. The pacing was very slow and it was hard to get through the novel at times. Overall, I feel like the book will be a fun beach read!

Wow, At first I did not like the writing, but man as soon as Lana was introduced as her trainer. I was so hocked. the author made me laugh in times.

I Honestly felt so sad for Willa to the point of crying sometimes. She was left alone. they made her feel unwanted and that created so many issues to her character. nevertheless, I enjoyed her point of view, usually i'm not into one person point of view. I felt her growth.


Loved this book and I highly recommend it. I got it today and finished it under less a day.

thank you for the author and her team for the trust.

After reading the short description about this one, I decided to take a chance to see what this one was about. Willa has been lying to her employer and friends for years to fit in. All thing come to a head when she is entered into a sailing contest. The problem is she doesn't know how to sail. In comes Lane Cordova. She is a former sailing champion and has moved back to town. Gabi asks Lane to help her and Lane reluctantly agrees. Things go south from here.

I am actually struggling to really express how I feel about Tack & Jibe. I think it could have been so much more if Willa wasn't so immature. Sure she has been living on her own and taking care of herself but her age really shows her maturity level. Lane on the other hand is older and mature but she is obviously attracted to women but has never had that experience. I understand attraction by looks, but I would not have pictured these two together because there really wasn't much else there.

Over I didn't struggle to get through it but just didn't connect to the story like I had hoped. 3 stars.

The pacing of the romance between Willa and Lane was very well done. Their connection felt very natural and I was completely invested in their relationship right from the start.

The synopsis of the book led us to believe that this is a comedy with a wish-fuelled ending. But it turned out to be much more than we were expecting. This is more about self-acceptance wrapped within a supportive community and an unlikely romance.

Twenty-two year old Willa Rogers is a popular Instagrammer with about five hundred thousand followers. Living in a tiny seaside island, Willa works in a sailing shop and Instas about sailing. The catch is that she cannot sail and never has, though she has convinced everyone, including her bestie Bodhi and Bodhi’s mums who own the shop she works in, that she can. When a big High Seas championship comes to town, her followers erupt with requests for her to participate. She tries to wriggle out of it, but someone enters her and a helpful neighbouring shop owner gives her a boat. Trapped in her own lies, Willa has little choice but to go ahead. She gets a lucky break when she finds out that Lane Cordova, a retired High Seas champion has recently moved to the island. Willa tracks Lane down only to realise that she’s already has a not-so-great run-in with Lane recently. She somehow manages to convince lane to give her sailing lessons. It doesn’t take long for both of them to figure out that sailing is just not Willa’s thing and the lessons peter off. Willa, however, turns up at the championship and crashes and burns. In more ways than one and the house of cards that she’s built on numerous lies collapses.

Willa is rash, reckless and a serial liar (which is somehow explained convincingly enough to be forgivable). However, we aren’t sure how we feel about her particularly about her behaviour with her mother and her cavalier attitude about stealing and subsequently destroying Lane’s parents’ boat. Lane is an interesting character – a person coming of age in her thirties (there is a fifteen year age gap between the two MCs). Bodhi is super chill and super likeable as is her friend (and new romantic partner), Hunter. In fact, we feel that Lane-Bodhi and Willa-Hunter would’ve made better romantic pairs and wish that is where this book would’ve headed. We aren’t totally convinced that the Willa-Lane couple will make it long term.

Despite dithering over our feelings about Willa, this book held us right up to the end and we’d say: give it a shot.

I can count the number of genuine romance novels I’ve read on one hand, (and they were all fantasy) but I was so charmed by the premise that I decided to take a chance and pick this one up, and I'm so glad I did because I absolutely loved it. It had a bunch of my favorite tropes, such as mutual pining, a coastal setting, and age gaps, but my actual favorite part was the richness of the characters and the realistic and mature way Willa and Lane dealt with their relationship problems.

The vast majority of adult f/f romances I have read have bored me to tears, and that is not the overstatement I wish it was. That was, gladly, anything but the case here.

Tack and Jibe is an opposites-attract type romance between Willa, a 22 year old who works in a sailing equipment shop and runs a popular Instagram account, and Lane, a 36 year old ex-competitive sailor who now works as an estate agent in her family's business. (Yeah, I don't really like the age gap either, but it was at least bearable here.) Willa and Lane get off on the wrong foot, but then they have to work together when Willa needs Lane's help after she is entered into a sailing competition, never having sailed before.

As it's a romance, things don't work if you don't like the characters, so it's a good thing they were my favourite part of the story. I liked Willa the most, obviously, but I also liked her friend Bodhi and Bodhi's mums, and the relationship between them - a sort of found family. Which is always a great aspect to have (though part of me wishes it was bigger, sort of. I mean, we're told Willa lives year round on the island and couchsurfs for the 3 months her grandparents rent out their home, but for someone who must therefore have some friends to do that, she sees remarkably few of them outside their couch.) And her relationship with Lane, although characterised by a few misunderstandings because of a lack of communication (I mean, they do that thing where they each think the other in love with someone else), was pretty cute. There wasn't even a big blowout breakup to create angst for no reason, which I appreciated.

Despite that, however, I did feel like the plot wasn't paced so well and tailed off towards the end. I think it may have served it better to have had the training and race take up more of the book than they did. That whole storyline was done by the halfway mark and from about 60-65% onwards, the book sort of drifted. It was still cute, but all the impetus of the plot was lost for me.

That aside, this was definitely one of the better adult f/f romances I have read (I know, I know, that's not saying a whole lot), and this is an author I definitely would come back to.

Ugh... I wish I wrote it.

Willa is twenty-two years old girl who lives in one of those islands where everybody knows everybody and there is nothing to do if not being miserable. And she's like this. She lives a simple life with a job, a best friend and a very popular instagram account ( with some partnerships too ). She made herself and by this I mean that she did her best to create a pleasurable and admirable version of herself at other people eyes; because of this she found herself struck in a sailing competition and meeting the cold heart Lane, new in Porter Island, where she does her best to mantain her job in family business and forget her past "mistakes" or what her family made her thinks of.
This is not a book about a love story that develop around a boat race. It's about two sides of the same medals who before being able to love each other they have to learn how to love themselves for who they truly are.
"Tack&Jibe" is a story about find a way to being independent from others expectations.
The realism of this book almost annoys me because I can totally see myself in Willa and where is difficult to me to reflect on Lane it's not to understand her because they're in the same situations: if the first had to wore another skin, the second was forced to wear that by other people projections.
The author send a message really important not only for the youngers out there but also whose are older and think that it's too late to start all over again– stop being scared and go out to explore the world and do whatever you like and however you like!

A deep and healthy message beneath the quick-reading mask and real and loveable characters.
I'm not going to shut up about this book like... ever.

What a sweet and thrilling ride! Tack and Jibe focuses on the developing relationship between Willa - a free spirited internet influencer - and Lane, a competitive sailor cum real estate agent. When Willa gets in over her head regarding a sailing competition, she turns to Lane to teach her in an effort to win and not have her lies be discovered. I must admit that I was rooting for these two from the very first moment that they met, and I was not disappointed! I loved their developing relationship and the angst and...well...all of it. This is such a feel good beach read, but with a happily ever after ending that will stick with me for a while yet.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing an advanced copy in exchange for an honest opinion.

This was a very sweet romance set in North Carolina's coast. The setting was such an integral part of Willa and Lane's story and you could really feel like you were there with them. I haven't read anything from this author before but I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the sweet romance between grumpy Lane and sunny Willa.