This one has gotten so many amazing reviews, but I just didn't connect with it. I didn't connect with the characters or the love story.

This book was so cute!!! I hate that I waited so long to pick it up!! I thoroughly enjoyed the growth of the MC. And the relationships that she found along her adventure. What a cute book!

Oof, gave me a serious case of travel envy. Lost a star for the too perfect Keane and the too tidy ending (all crankiness likely from me speeding through the ending during another bout of the can’t sleeps).

Deals with some tough issues. The mc was enjoyable and the setting/info about boats was different from usual for this genre.

Dealing with grief and loss is something we've become too familiar with in the past year. This book handles these emotions in such a sweet and heartbreaking manner. Really enjoyed this.

Can I give more than 5 stars? This title was emotional, heartwarming, and honestly just hit the spot. I cried several times while reading this and found myself returning to favorite passages after I finished the title.

Thank you Netgalley and St. Martins Press for my gifted copy of this beautiful story.

I started reading this book while sitting in the pool while my kids swam. Sitting in the water made me feel like I was actually on the sailboat which made this a perfect book to read during the summer.

Throughout the book Anna is dealing with the grief of losing her fiancé to suicide. Even though Ben and Anna had planned a sailing trip together and he wasn't around anymore Anna decides to go on it anyways. The only thing is that she has never sailed a boat on her own before and she soon realizes that she is in over her head.

Anna ends up hiring Keane to help her sail the boat and they begin to realize that they are both healing from different types of grief.

I loved the adventures of Anna and Keane in this sweet story.

Don’t let the cover fool you, this one is a punch right to the gut. I had seen some of my favorite bookstagrammers raving about this book so I picked it up on a whim. And I got a whole lot more than I bargained for …in the best way

Anna is grieving the devastating and unexpected loss of her fiancée Ben. Prior to his death, Ben had a passion project refinishing a boat and the pair had planned a sailing trip together. Anna decides to take the trip herself and after a rough first go, she realizes that she’s can’t do it on her own. After a chance encounter, she hires Keane. The two become fast friends and Keane becomes an important part of Anna’s journey to healing.

I thought this was a great exploration of grief and the journey one goes on when trying to move forward. I really liked both of these characters who were flawed and human.

Bottom line: I loved every second of this. The author put me through a lot of emotions going through this book, but the end left me feeling lighter than ever.

First about the characters, I connected with both. Anna was a delight; her adventure through everything she was going through was amazing, strong yet vulnerable, never letting fear take over. And Keane was seriously one of the most sincere and genuine characters I've ever read, he was charming and just wonderful. And with characters like this it is impossible to write a bad romance, being something adorable and sweet to read.

Now the real question is ... who's going to hop in a boat with me so we can sail around while we find ourselves?

These two characters captured my heart in their dialogue - full of honestly, wit and grit. More than just another romance story, this book is about working through grief and finding how to live through it. I don't know much about sailing but that did not hinder any part of brain and heart from jumping into the journey!

The sign of a fantastic book that if I would want to read it again and yes dear friends, I would want to read this one again.

This wasn't exactly what I thought it would be, but i still really liked it. Anna was brave and foolish alternately, and seemed to find just the right (or wrong) people to help her along her physical and emotional journey.

First of all, thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Griffin for the ARC in return for my honest review-albeit very late ( this book was published in March!)
This book was very much my kind of book-a woman's journey of self-discovery and processing grief while sailing around the Caribbean. Anna's boyfriend commited suicide after lifetime struggles with depression. Anna takes the trip that he had mapped out-to sail around the Caribbean on his boat-almost a year after he dies to try to deal with her grief. After the first leg of the trip when she has some major issues, she hires Keane to help to captain her ship. Keane is a sunny personality who is also dealing with his own demons.
Anna is not an easy character to really understand at times but she really doesn't understand herself either at the beginning.
Great book with some great escapist travel tidbits.

An enjoyable read, Float Plan by Trish Dollar features an unusual heroine who takes off on an adventure in order to distract herself from the memories of her dead fiancé. That part is unsettling & her taking off without really knowing what she was doing wasn't really believable, but the rest of the story was good. Thanks to NetGalley for the complimentary copy of the book in exchange for my unbiased review.

This was such a sweet and inspiration book about grief, second chances, and personal acceptance. The characters were very fleshed out and I found myself connecting with Anna when it came to facing her own fear and loving herself for who she really is. And I adored Keane so much! The overall story was well paced except for a few plot points that felt a bit out of place. I enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more of Doller’s works in the future.

Anna's journey back to finding herself and finding love again. Anna's fiancee committed suicide and left her a sail boat.
After losing her fiancee, her life was getting out of control. She wasn't happy and her dead end job wasn't keeping her life interesting enough. So she decided keep their previous sailing trip across Florida to Caribbean. She didn't think she would be able to sail across but she manages to sail until something breaks down. She hires seasoned Keane and they sail through Caribbean.
Keane isn't Ben (her fiancee) but he was different in a good way. She was learning to love again and finding herself again. Keane makes Anna happy and she feels differently around him. And she finally enjoys the sailing and finds herself and falling in love again.
I end up enjoy reading this book and I was so happy for Anna for finding herself again.
Sailing from Florida to Caribbean with beautiful scenery was perfect for summer read.
Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin publishing for my ARC.

This is the first book from this author, and it definitely won’t be my last. This book was beautifully heartbreaking as we follow Anna in dealing with her fiancé’s suicide. Anna hops on a boat to set said to Trinidad and has some great memories along the way. The places that Anna and Keane sounded amazing the author did a great job describing these places.
This is one of my top 10 books.

I read the ARC of Float Plan, by bestselling author, Trish Dollar, courtesy of St. Martin’s Press in exchange for an honest review. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and have given it 4 stars.

I have closed my website entitled, The Grumpy Book Reviewer, due to increasing costs for web hosting, security certificate, etc., and am moving my reviews to HubPages where I actually make a little money for my work. Unfortunately, HubPages will not allow anything published on their site to appear anywhere else. So, I have had to remove this review. I loved the book, and assigned it 5 stars here and on GoodReads. Anyone who wants to read my review can access it at https://hubpages.com/literature/Float-Plan-by-Trish-Dollar.

I did not expect to read that… i dont know how or why this book stayed on my TBR for so long… i needed this. Its such a heartfelt book. With emotions so real… so raw that you cannot come back from this read unscatered… i felt sad, happy and completly satisfied reading this. I wish i could have written it. Read it.

This was my first book by Trish Doller and I'll be back for more - I can promise you that it won't be my last. FLOAT PLAN was heartbreaking, emotional, sweet and educational. I had such a great time with this story.

Anna's courage to take her late boyfriend's boat after his suicide and travel to the Caribbean was inspiring. Learning about all those small islands and cultures was wonderful and made this book such a rich experience Keane you'll want to travel there.
Keane, a sailor in every cell of his body, has his own loss to deal with. After an accident in which he lost his leg it's hard for him to be hired on boats because only few people think he can handle the physicality of it. These two go on a journey of friendship, healing and falling in love again. This could have been a depressing story but the author balanced all aspects really well and wove some humor and uplifting moments into it that it was nothing but beautiful.

Trish Doller's voice is very engaging and I had no issues staying in the moment. If you have the blues because of the travel restrictions still imposed due to COVID and are in need of an inspiring, moving, emotional story full of hope and love grab this!
“I'm starting to understand that some people come into your life when you need them, and go when it's time."

This was my first book by Trish Doller and I enjoyed it. The premise, fulfilling dreams a trip you had wanted to take with someone else was touching, as was so much about this book.

The characters were fun to get to know and I liked the way the plot unfolded - not too fast, but it moved quickly enough to keep my interest. I will be reading more by this author in future.