Ok, this book was so refreshing and SWEET with a dreamy lakeside destination setting in upper peninsula Michigan. Imagine being at your lowest, just dumped and having to take a fishing trip at a nature lodge SOLO that you only booked for your jerk ex-boyfriend. And then…. You step off the boat with the assistance of a dreamy lumbersexual man with abs, forearms, and the emotional intelligence of a saint who then offers up his lakeside cabin to you at his family’s resort (when your room has a repair issue), sleeps on your couch, and then makes you waffles the next morning.

Talk about a life 180!! Presley is way out of her comfort zone at the Get Lost lodge, but her unexpected collision with Beckett and his family might be the change of plans they both needed at their early 30’s cross-road in life. This is hands down the opposites attract, fish out of water, dual POV, instant attraction but off-limits romance book you NEED to read this year. There are renovation projects, hiking lessons, viral TikToks, family s’mores, only one bed AND hot tub, and found family vibes for days. This is a setting and cast of characters that fees like home; I wanted to jump into this novel, hang out at the lodge’s infamous family style meals, and try something new.

The only complaint I have was the steam was fade to black, and I would have preferred to rip the screen door right off the frame since the banter and tension was so GOOD! Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan audio for my advanced copies in exchange for my review. I listened to the audiobook while reading along with my digital copy and it was an amazing experience.

I will be feature this book on my socials on pub week!

Thank you netgalley for sending me this ARC.

Unfortunately this book was not for me. I did not enjoy the writing. The characters felt cringey, the pacing was weird, and ultimately I just didn’t like Presley as the fmc.

This is a closed door, insta-love romance. Presley dumps her shitty boyfriend and goes on the vacation she planned for him.

1 star.

Title: Love, Naturally
Author: Sophie Sullivan
Length: 320 pages
Format: ebook arc
Pub Date: January 16, 2024
Genre: Contemporary Romance, ChickLit, Rom Com
Rating Out of 5: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Spice Level: closed-door
This was such a sweet and swoony love story!! Presley + Hot Mountain Man 4 ever! I loved alllllll (not you Emmett) the characters. I loved the major sound family theme of this book too. Not only do we fall in love with Presley and Beckett, but we fall in love with an entire family. An entire town. I’d love to try Presley’s French toast and Pete’s waffles. I’d love to roast marshmallows with Ollie and go biking through hidden trails and look at the stars above and the lake below. I’d love to #getlost!

Read if you love:
Small towns
Found family
Opposites attract
Super mild third act breakups

Special thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for the arc in exchange for my honest review!

I loved how it started. Beckett is a great MMC and I loved the setting of the rustic resort. Was super cute and a lot of fun!

“I feel like you’re the first thing I’ve been sure about in forever.”

If that quote doesn’t make you swoon like I did, I don’t know what to tell you! Love, Naturally was a really fun read - Presley is a city girl who decides to book a surprise ten day vacation to take with her boyfriend for his birthday present. These two have never traveled together, so this idea seemed a bit much to me. But Presley does book a trip where he can hike and fish, things he has mentioned he likes to do but she has never seen him do. Instead of taking the trip together, he breaks up with her - but Presley decides to spend the ten days there on her own instead, even though she is *not* a nature girly. While there, she meets Beckett, the brother of the lodge’s owner, and she is instantly smitten.
As Presley and Beckett get to know each other, they play a card game where, based on the card drawn, one gets to ask the other a question. One of Beckett’s questions, in particular, would be a fun way to get to know more about someone, just like it was a fun way for him to learn about Presley. “If someone were to plan a trip for you, what would be your ideal?” For me, I would want it to be somewhere WARM where I could do some hiking and try some new food and drinks but there would also be plenty of time to relax and read. I’m pretty much describing my recent trips, both my trip last April to St John and the Banff/Jasper trip I took last August! It also is pretty similar to a visit to Get Lost Lodge, the setting of this book.
The setting made me want to book my own trip to Get Lost, and I also loved the found family aspect of the plot. I hope we get future stories for Beckett’s siblings, Grayson and Jilly. Thank you to SMP for the ARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion. I’ve read two of Sophie Sullivan’s previous books and I liked this one just as much! For a moment, when I was getting close to the ending, I got worried it had been mislabeled as Romance and there might not be an HEA but - phew - crisis averted. This will be available next Tuesday, and I definitely recommend checking it out!

I have really enjoyed Sophie Sullivan's previous books. This plot seemed to build much slower than the others, but I still enjoyed it.

This was such a fun and delightful read! I bounced back and forth between the physical and audio version, and I truly loved the writing, and the narrator did a fantastic job.

I’ve become a big fan of Sullivan’s stories, and this one was no exception. I loved watching Presley come into her own and branching out throughout the story, and the whole cast of side characters just made the whole book. Such an idealistic sounding town and lodge, so much so, the descriptions made me want to physically be there and experiencing it all myself.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martins Press for my ARC, and Macmillan Audio for my ALC, in exchange for my honest feedback. I enjoyed every second!

Presley Ayers & Beckett Keller are about as different from each other as a fish and a bird. That doesn't stop both of them being bitten by the same love bug on day one!
Presley decides to take the 2 week vacation that she'd set up for her boyfriend when he refuses to go. Beckett is helping his siblings run, update and fix up their vacation lodge for people who love the outdoors. Presley's idea of enjoying the outdoors is a pool or a hot tub. Thing is that because Presley is an amazing PR person who knows how to set up anything and the Kellers are in desperate need of that, this relationship is happening whether Presley and Beckett want it or not!
This was a thoroughly charming book that you will love to read!

4.5/5 stars

This was a super sweet read with lots of adorable characters. I loved the found family and unique community. Made you want to be there! I highly recommend for fans of closed door/fade-to-black readers.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to review this very sweet romance!
Presley is a city girl through and through who decides to take her boyfriend Emmett of eight months on a wonderful vacation that screams his interests as a surprise birthday trip, only to be heartbroken that he doesn't want to go on the vacation with her and go with someone else. Out of spite she takes this wonderful vacation herself. The only problem is....she is not at all a nature lover, or lover of outdoors. Sounds like it might be ten days of hanging out in her lodge accommodations with some Netflix, right? But then she meets Beckett, and EVERYTHING changes.
Beckett is rugged, handsome, and a total outdoorsy type. The connection between these two is instant. By chance, and because their personalities gel so well together, Presley gets drawn into Beckett's life, along with his close-knit family and close-lit community, the city of Smile, and discovers a whole different life of what it could be versus what she thinks she wants for herself.
In many ways, Beckett is opposite. While Presley thrives on change, her big city life, and going where the wind takes her, Beckett loves his routine, his roots, and not taking chances out of fear of failure. This holds him back as he finds himself torn between pursuing his own dream of opening his own bike shop, or helping his brother Grayson achieve his dreams by making the Get Lost Lodge a success.
So many themes to ponder on, how people have a mapped out plan for their lives versus taking a chance that may or may not work out. Both Presley and Beckett are on a track to success for their own careers, however, things are complicated when during the course of ten days, they fall in love with each other. The problem? Their relationship as a time-limit, and their paths are not meant to stay on the same page without one or the other making a major sacrifice. Beckett and Presley both go through transformations because of each that cannot be denied. Beckett is more willing to step out of his comfort zone and decide what's good for him alone, while Presley discovers what it's like to be loved and cherished, and not feeling like she has to settle.
The beginning of the book started off strong and had me hooked, while the ending was perfection.
So why just four stars?
For one, somewhere in the middle, the book meandered quite a bit. I get that it's a small town romance, where the town itself is a character, but there were times when the story focuses too much on the side characters and their stories to the point where it got kind of boring. I've read other books before with the small town character, and it managed to do it better than this one. However, the ending left me a pile of mush and was simply perfection, so it got four stars.

My sincere thanks to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read Love, Naturally and I give my unbiased opinion of it in the following short review.

Love, Naturally by Sophie Sullivan follows Presley and Beckett. The story begins with Presley gifting her boyfriend with a getaway trip to an adventure resort in northern Michigan. When he asks if he can take one of his buddies along instead of her, she is at first shocked and then livid. She takes off with the tickets and goes on the trip by herself. On the ferry over to the lodge she makes her first impression on Beckett by showing her non-sea legs. He is brother to the owner of the lodge and is on his way to help with some repairs there. When Presley's room has a malfunction with the thermostat making it feel like the Antarctic, Beckett volunteers his cabin for her to stay in. She can have his room and he'll take the couch. Forced proximity at its finest. Presley makes a post for social media that accidentally catches Beckett in the background stretching and giving a flash of his abs. The post goes viral, and the lodge starts getting a lot of publicity. They need it because they are trying to make ends meet, but Beckett is not so thrilled with the notoriety. Since this is a romance, it is not hard to see where this story is headed. It screams Hallmark movie vibes and was pretty adorable, especially where Beckett is concerned. I enjoyed the story for the most part even though it was far too insta-love for my taste. I liked the easy flow of the writing. The supporting characters were fun, especially Ollie the young niece of Beckett. I see future stories for both Beckett's brother Gray and sister Jilly. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a good mushy romance without a ton of angst.

Closed Door; Very Mild Course Language

This was a cute story, but it felt a bit slow to me at times. Overall, I liked this book and really enjoyed the setting and the side characters so I think this has to potential to be a series that will be very enjoyable!

A huge thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Presley is a concierge at a boutique hotel and has used her connections to arrange a surprise fishing trip for her boyfriend at a lodge on a small island in Lake Michigan even though it is not her thing. When he says that he cannot see going away with her for ten days, she decides to go by herself. Alone the way she learns things about herself and falls in love with the family and guests at the lodge. This is a wonderful story about growth and finding a family.

Love, Naturally is easy to love!

It has charming characters, a fun setting and a sweet story about finding yourself. Have we seen this story before, yes, but Sullivan really creates a great story with characters you'll swoon over,

Beckett is wonderful. I loved him. He's quintessential small town, good guy and I can't help but fall for him. Presley I liked too. She's a city girl whose an influencer and seems a bit lost in finding her purpose. I could understand both characters and I cheered for them.

The romance here is very sweet and romantic. It takes place over 10 days which made it insta-love but I didn't care about that. I felt the romance was cute and totally put a smile on my face. This is closed door so be aware of that before just in case you're looking for spice.

A great summery read with a charming small town and characters. Perfect beach or vacation read too. Especially if you're a fan of opposites attract.

𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: 𝐒𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐧
𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟔, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 (4.5)

Thank you @smpromance @macmillan.audio for my #gifted copies of Love, Naturally!

Love, Naturally was such a charming opposites attract/small town romance book and I loved it! I was so invested in Presley and Beckett and I felt like this book was just so well done from start to finish!

Presley is a concierge at an exclusive hotel in Michigan and is a city girl who loves high heels and fashion. As a surprise to her boyfriend, she plans a trip to The Get Lost Lodge. Instead of going on the trip together, they break up. Determined to go on a vacation, Presley decides to go to the Lodge by herself. There, she meets Beckett, who is focused on family and helping his brother run the Lodge, and doesn’t have time to help Presley while staying at the lodge. It doesn’t take long for the two opposites to start feeling a pull towards one another. Will the two step out of their comfort zone for love?

I just loved everything about this book and found myself smiling so much while reading! On top of loving Presley and Beckett, the side characters were amazing!

𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲
🏕️Opposites Attract
🏕️Small Town Romance
🏕️Dual POV
🏕️Found Family
🏕️Forced Proximity
🏕️Closed Door Romance

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This was so sweet! It sort of had summer camp vibes. I loved the sweet love story between Beck and Presley, the whole family was so fun and the town was definitely Stars Hollow-esque, if Stars Hollow was set in the mountains on a lake! Seriously, this was a sweet, quick read. Great found family storyline, too!

The audiobook was so well done, the reader was great!

Thanks to Netgalley and the author and publisher for an advanced copy to read.

Thanks to NetGalley for the E-ARC. This book melted my black heart with every page I read. I loved loved loved the story of Presley and Beckett. I loved Beckett's family and their dynamic and lets just say it like it is Ollie stole the whole book. This book was so sweet and I just had a smile on my face the whole time which is rare and I really hope that we get to see Gary and Jill with their own stories because it would be life.

This is a cute instalove kind of vacation romance where the attraction is intense but the sex is closed door. It has all the humor of a city girl out in nature, but Presley is such a sunny helpful personality that she fits right in. The accidental capture of the rare hot mountain man sighting in her Instagram post adds comedy as Beckett becomes an unwilling thirst trap draw for more lodge bookings and also teasing from everyone he knows in the small town. And at the end they both realize that sometimes you have to give up what you thought you wanted for the dream of something even better.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

It was VERY hard for me to get into this book. Third person POV is really difficult for me. Once I did, I liked it a lot. Beck and Presley are sweet, despite being really insta-lovey. Overall, a cute read that I wish was first person POV.

A light, sweet love story centered around a small town, found family, and an undeniable instant connection. I’m not a huge fan of the concept of insta-love and the short timeline of the story, but stranger things have happened. Loved all of the characters and thought it was such a cute book.