I really wanted to enjoy this book, but it just wasn’t for me. It’s in third person, which isn’t my favorite and I did find many of the parts quick cringeworthy, but that’s just me. I did however like the side characters and I definitely like the small town/ island setting. Overall, this book was iffy but I recommend if you like third person or haven’t read much romance.

Unfortunately too many things bothered me to make this a successful romantic escapism book. I know they first chapter is supposed to paint Presley’s boyfriend (now ex) in bad light, but honestly, it seemed like she had known where he was in the relationship and trying to force him to move forward and then being mad when he didn’t want to is on Presley. She should have had honest conversations with him instead of planning a ten-day trip 8 months into their relationship.

And then, Beckett gives his cabin to Presley when her AC is broken in her lodge room but there also three other open lodge rooms (according to Beckett’s own breakdown of what’s available)? This makes no sense and honestly, as a single woman, I would be very concerned if the owner of a lodge I was staying at did this.

After these two things, it was hard to root for either of these protagonists.

I received an advanced copy from netgalley in return for an honest review.

I devoured this opposites attract romance in one evening - it was that enjoyable! When influencer and hotel concierge Presley is dumped moments after surprising her boyfriend with a trip to a fishing lodge, she decides to step out of her comfort zone and make the trip herself. Handsome mountain man, Beckett, and his family are the perfect antidote.

I LOVED this book - especially sweet Ollie's comic relief. "Thirst trap" had me in stitches.

I hope (and suspect) Sophie will continue the story and provide happily ever afters to Gray and Jilly as well. I will definitely look forward to returning to Smile and getting lost.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed the first 50% of this book. The main characters are interesting and likeable. Presley is a type A , super organized person. She is trying to get promoted to a management position at a chic boutique hotel. She is into fine dining, shopping, and the fine things in life but is also very romantic. Beckett is a ruggedly handsome guy, who loves outdoor activities and the tranquility of nature.

They get thrown together when she gets dumped and goes solo to the rustic fishing lodge that Beckett family owns and runs.

I loved Beckett family and the other guests. The setting was great, and I loved how Presley threw herself into all the outdoor activities that were new to her. I loved the fun social media component, and the charming/quirky village of Smile that reminds me of Grand Marais, Minnesota. I think the author is great at writing sweet, funny rom-coms.

What I didn’t like though, was the insta-love between the two main characters. Although I love rom-coms, insta-love is my least favourite troupe. I just can’t buy it.

If you enjoy insta-love, rom-coms and fish out of water situations than this one’s for you!

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martins Press for providing me with an eARC of this book to read and review.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Opposites attract
- Small town romance
- Insta love
- Closed door relationship

When Presley Ayers decides to surprise her boyfriend with a trip to a fishing lodge, she is met with her boyfriend not wanting to be “stuck” with her! After dumping her (ex)boyfriend, Presley makes the best of a bad situation and decides to go to the lodge on her own. Except…Presley hates the outdoors. Once at the Get Lost Fishing Lodge, she meets Beckett Keller and the two quickly form a connection. With Beckett’s family being the owners of the lodge, he is quick to help Presley to her cabin. Quickly, these two become inseparable… but they only have 10 days together.
Presley and Beckett try to make the most out of their short time together while they each face hardships of their own.

This was such a cute and easy read! I’m usually not a big fan of insta love but the connection between these two was too good! I loved seeing Beckett pull Presley out of her comfort zone. Not only were the two main characters so easy to love, but so were the side characters! Between other lodge guests, Beckett’s family, and the locals in town, there were so many enjoyable characters that added so much to this story!! Definitely recommend if you’re looking for a cozy, quick read.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this e-ARC! I voluntarily read this book, and all thoughts and opinions are my own.

This was the perfect feel good read!
Presley had a plan. She’s going to show her boyfriend what a good girlfriend she is and she just knows it will move their relationship forward. All is going well until he acts like himself and she ends up going on a trip by herself.
That act of defiance sets in motion a series of events that will change several lives for the better - including Presley herself.
Presley and leading man Beckett are almost too sweet to be real, but I loved them together and the way these two strangers seemed to mesh and provide each other with the support to find out who they both really were.
Add in a fantastic secondary cast of siblings, friends, and a completely awesome town and this was a book world I wanted to stay in. I only hope there is more to come from Smile, the Keller siblings, and Get Lost Lodge!

I'm sad to say that I had to DNF this book around 50%. The writing style was so repetitive that I honestly couldn't take it anymore. I know this is a romance, but the amount of times this author used a cheesy cliché to describe what was happening in a character. Heart became a bit nauseating to me.

These are all just in the first HALF of this book;

-her heart felt full
-Beckett’s heart melted
-Her heart lurched in sync
-Those words slipped over her heart and squeezed
-made his heart shift in his chest.
-could a woman’s laugh curl inside a heart
-heart to beat so hard
-heart was already beating like a hopped-up humming bird
-her heart flip-flopped
-untied the knots around her heart
-made another notch in her heart
-her heart gave a painful hiccup
-Beckett’s heart muscles tightened
-his heart fishtailed
-She’d taken high school science, so she knew that her heart couldn’t actually grow in her chest
-Presley’s heart bounced around in her chest
-Presley’s heart warmed
-Her heart filled and soared like a balloon with no limits
-she made his heart feel like it was full of sunshine
-Beckett’s heart feel like it had claws jammed in it
-her heart full-on lurched in her chest when she faced him
-Her heart muscles tweaked
-her heart jumping like a jackrabbit on speed.
-heart nearly melted into a puddle
-Beckett’s heart pinched
-Beckett’s heart gave a happy wobble
-curled like vines around her heart
-Presley felt a sharp pinch in her heart
-her heart nearly catapulted out of her chest
-her heart was waging a war, trying to bust out of her chest
-her heart skipped again
-her heart danced
-Presley’s heart sighed inside of her chest
-Emotions pulled tight strings around her heart
-his heart felt like it was being squeezed in the fist of a giant

The story itself wasn't engaging to me at all and when you added this kind of repetitive cliché writing, I just couldn't continue reading.

Thanks to St. Martin'g Griffin for an advanced copy of Love, Naturally by Sophie Sullivan.

This is a fun romance about Presley who books a surprise vacation for her and her boyfriend, only for her boyfriend to break up with her when she tells him about the surprise to go to the Get Lost lodge on an island in Lake Michigan. So she decides to go on the trip herself. She is stepping waaaaay outside her comfort zone when she starts to fall for Beckett who is helping his brother run the lodge...

This was cute, but very insta-love. I did like the siblings and of course Ollie! This book has a great cast of characters and a great small town/found family vibe.

I enjoyed it but it was a quick and happy read after I laughed at the super insta-love.

This was such a wonderful quick read! Presley and Beckett have been through more than their fair share, and seeing them find each other and themselves was just perfect! I hope Sophie gives us more from this world, the side characters need to find their happy, too! I will definitely be recommending this to everyone! Thank you to Net Galley and St. Martin's for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This was a sweet book that I enjoyed reading while on vacation as it didn’t require a lot of thinking but did bring enjoyment!

The instant love was a bit over the top at times and it was hard to believe this entire book took place over 2 weeks. However, I think the idea was cute and I did enjoy the people and community that was in Smile!

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Griffin for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

If you are a fan of Hallmark movies, I believe this will be a great read for you. This book is very much a *fling*. The romance is surface-level and takes place over a very brief vacation. Although I did not find myself getting caught up in the love story due to it's lack of depth and character development, I can definitely say that there were several times where I caught myself smiling while reading. The writing reminded me a lot of a YA coming of age fiction in which the main character "discovers herself" and ends up exploring a new version of herself while falling in love along the way, yet nothing that life-changing really happened (although the main character referred to everything as life-changing). Without including any spoilers, I would just say there are a lot of repeated conversations that make me question the intimacy between the main characters that we are constantly told is there (rather that something you can just feel from reading). I would have loved to see real growth in the characters because there was a lot of potential for it. 3.5 stars 🤍

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martins Press for an ARC of this book!

I had a difficult time relating to the characters in Love, Naturally, and found it hard to connect to the story. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to review this novel.

This book was very difficult to get through and very cringey. This was pretty unrealistic for a contemporary romance book. I couldn’t relate really to the main characters which made me not attached to the book. I did like the side characters, mainly Ollie. The instalove was also not romantic at all. I love the cover and wanted to love the book as well. Definitely not a book for me.

Rating- ⭐️⭐️💫
Spice-🚫

Honestly, I wanted to love this book so much! I love a good small town, opposites attract romance, but for me this one just didn’t hit. The FMC kept cringingly telling the MMC he was attractive in the beginning. You kept getting a repetitive backstory from the characters. Ollie (Beckett’s niece) was my favorite character. She had the best personality. Overall wasn’t my vibe but I would be willing to try another book by Sophie before completely writing her off.

I feel like this book will be a great summer read with the camping-like feeling to it.

This book follows Presley taking a vacation after breaking up with her boyfriend, to the "Get Lost" lodge. When Presley gets there she finds it struggling to make ends meet. On the boat ride over Presley meets her love interest of the story Beckett. This story does have the trope of instant love, and yes Beckett and Presley pretty much hit it off right away. Throughout the story, Presley becomes closer to Beckett and his family by helping them to put "Get Lost" on the map. I like the concept of the book, but there was a whole lot of nothing happening in this book. I wish there was more and we got more into the relationship of Presley and Beckett and I wish there was a little bit more of a challenge for the characters. Overall, it was a good short read and when Presley and Beckett were together it did make me swoon for them. 3.5/5 stars.

Thank you to Netgalley, Sophie Sullivan, and St. Martin's Press for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Presley is not an outdoorsy kinda girl. But when her boyfriend dumps her right before a hiking/ rugged-like trip, she decides to go on her own. When Beckett helps Presley off the rickety boat, it’s clear she doesn’t like hiking, fishing, or nature in general, so why did she go on this trip? But neither Beckett nor Presley can help that inexplicable draw they feel towards each other.

This was such a sweet and adorable romance! Fish-out-of-the-water, insta-love, opposites-attract, and small town; these tropes blended perfectly with each, and honestly, the insta-love part felt quite natural too.

Presley & Beckett were so tender around each other that was swoony. I loved how, even though they were attracted towards each other, they took time to be comfortable around each other.

The lodge setting was definitely a plus point for the story & I adored the side characters are well. The grand gesture or the "make-up" was so satisfying. Overall it was a quick and enjoyable read.

<i>Thank you Netgalley and publisher for the arc in exchange for an honest review.<i>

After How to Love your Neighbor and A guide to Being Just Friends, I was offered the arc for Love, Naturally from Sophie Sullivan. I was a bit hesitant, since A Guide turned out to be a bit slow. But I decided to give it another go.

And this one was indeed a bit more on tempo. The story is funny: Beckett and Presley are totally opposite characters. Presley is the high maintenance city chick and Beckett the laid back outdoorsy type. Presley had booked this outdoor trip for her and her boyfriend. For her, the idea of a relaxing holiday is at an island in a luxurious hotel with a spa. However, trying to indulge in her lover’s hobby of fishing in the wilderness, she booked this trip. When he walks out on her, she decides to go on her own. And hooks Beckett…. Literally…

Needless to say: Beckett and Presley really start on the wrong foot. It’s the slow burn that gets you hooked.- Figuratively – so, four out of five stars from me and a special thank you to Netgalley for providing the arc.

Omg what a cute and sweet closed door romance! I enjoyed the heck out of this one.

I really enjoyed the characters in this book. Presley and Beck were both adorable. I absolutely loved the setting! I’m a huge mountain girl at heart so this made me feel all warm and fuzzy and like I need a camping trip asap! The romance was very insta-lovey but it worked for this book.

This beauty releases on January 16th so make sure you pick up a copy!

Thank you so much to St Martin’s Press and Netgalley for the e-arc!

Thank you so much for the opportunity to read this sweet book. Love, Naturally was such a cute story and I loved the character development and watching their relationship grow. Beautifully written! I will definitely be reading more from this author in the future!

Love, Naturally is the perfect light read that would be excellent for summer. I wasn't crazy about the insta love aspect that happens over 10 days. The plot was just okay, but not anything that really resonated or stuck with me. 3.5 stars rounded up to 4. Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for this ARC in exchange for a honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.