This fun and flirty read is the perfect way to start off summer!

Casey’s life is at a low point personally and professionally. She’s treading water trying to pay bills, grieve her grandma, and climb a ladder (that seemingly has no rungs) at her job. When an amazing job opportunity to travel on a fancy new cruise ship and interview with her long lost middle school crush Phillip (who designed it!) arises, Casey jumps in with both feet… but can she keep her heart from falling overboard?! That’s the real story.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to receive this book for an honest review.

What a fun read and I am one always going on cruises so I can relate.

Great summer read.

Caribbean Crush was such a fun read with such a gorgeous tropical backdrop that I almost felt like I was on a vacation too—almost😊.

In an enemies-to-lovers trope, the main characters Casey and Phillip, when thrust back together again, need to get beyond their history together. The witty banter between them was so fun!

This was the first book I have read by R.S. Grey and I enjoyed it so much I have since gone on and read a couple more I really liked as well. A new must read author for me.

This would be a great beach read!

Thanks to NetGalley for the digital ARC.

As an avid cruiser myself, this book IMMEDIATELY intrigued me and I had to read it. So glad I received an ARC from NetGalley!

In the book you get a finding-herself FMC and a private-broody-wealthy MMC who is spicy behind closed doors!! They have a bit of history from their adolescence and I wish that played a bit more in the full story, but was a cute way to connect them with history in the beginning and brought the angst at the beginning of their encounters.

After other interactions, there’s spice, tenderness, banter, internal dialogue that’ll crack you up, moments for personal reflection, and overall just good book that leaves you smiling! Lovable side characters, great destinations, and a cruise of a lifetime - what more could you ask for! I loved it!

This is a great summertime read, perfect for sitting poolside and imagining you're on a yacht in the Caribbean. Rachel did a great job describing the scenery and places they travel to, I really did feel like I was there as well which was really fun. Casey was hilarious, I loved her inner monologues. It was harder for me to warm up to Phillip. The pacing seemed a little off, one minute he was being brutally honest and downright mean to her and the next they're together and then it seemed a little too insta-lovey. I LOVED the friendship between Casey and Sienna. Give me her story please!!

Casey goes on a maiden voyage cruise ship to try and boost her flailing travel journalist career. Only problem is she needs to get an interview with the owner but they have previous form

A cute and fun read.
This book drew me in from the beginning.
Wonderful characters and I loved the idea of going on a cruise.
The way this author describes everything I felt like I was actually there.
I hate to admit it but Philip was my favorite character because he kept things interesting and kept Casey in her toes!
I loved in getting to know them both and sometimes they even made me laugh
I hated to see this boot end.
It was a great maiden voyage!
5 stars for a well written story. I highly recommend!
My thanks to Netgalley for a copy of this book. I was NOT required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine.

This sweet and spicy romcom was just what I needed to sit by the ocean all day. I was laughing in one moment and blushing the next.

So so good! I loved the romance and characters and the cruise aspect. The travel was great. The romance was fire and I loved every second. Quick fun and easy read for the summer or for me the winter when I’m down. Loved this book

After reading blushing in the big leagues, and three strikes youre mine, I was really excited to read this book by the same author. However, it just did not hit like the others! The way the two characters originally got together was super weird and didn’t fit with the rest of the story. Good overall fluffy romance and I liked the enemies to lovers trope, but just not a huge fan of the entire book.

4 Stars
1.5 Spicy Stars

*Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me an ARC in exchange for my honest review*

This was honestly delightful.

Caribbean Crush follows Casey and Phillip who have a shared high school history that ended on less than stellar terms. Now, years later, they meet again on the ship Phillip helped design as it takes its maiden voyage around the Caribbean with a bunch of journalists and travel bloggers on board - Casey being one of them.

What transpires is a sexy, romantic story about two people who don’t want to fall in love, greatly deny to themselves and each other that it’s happening, but fall hard nonetheless. Against the backdrop of the Caribbean islands this was a lighthearted beach read that scratches the itch and will leave you with a smile.

I liked Casey - even if she got a bit frustrating in her denial at times. I liked how she stood up for herself and I really loved the friendship between her and Sienna - strong female friendships often fall by the wayside in romances and it’s nice to see that wasn’t the case here.

Phillip was just adorable, too. It was fun to see him slowly go from detesting Casey to being obsessed with her and having to realise he’d been playing his life too straight before.

Was it a perfect read? No. Did I have a good time? Yes.

Enemies to Lovers lite, vacation romance.

This was such a fun and cute book! I love cruises they are the perfect vacation ever. A vacation fling to relationship stories are my favorite. I loved Phillip and Casey. I also liked Casey’s friend that she met on the cruise, Sienna. I am glad Casey ended up quitting her job after 6 years when it wasn’t going anywhere. The book was a little slow to start but it got better as I kept reading. It was my first RS grey book so I wasn’t sure what to expect but it was great! Now I am ready for a vacation! Thank you so much for the ARC.

I have been a fan of this author for years. She knows how to write a great romance with excellent character development and connection.

Casey lucks out and finds herself on the maiden voyage of a luxury cruise ship. Her goal is to score an exclusive interview with the ships owner Phillip Woodmont. She told her boss she knew Phillip and could get the interview with the private CEO. What she failed to mention is, yes she once knew him but it was years ago when they were in grade eight. And their friendship also ended in grade eight over rivalry and sabotage between their school debate teams.

Once aboard the extravagant ship, she makes it her mission to get the interview. However, once Phillip sees and recognizes her, his immediate response is no. No way is she getting an interview. He's still holding a grudge from grade eight.

R.S. Grey is an automatic download. I love the past connect that the main characters had and I really enjoyed watching them fall involve. Appreciate the author's consistency.

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for this advanced readers copy!

It should first be said that I read this book in one setting. While it did start out a little slowly for me- it picked up around the 30-35% range. I liked the dual POV a lot in this book. This one is one of grey’s steamier novels for sure! I liked the premise quite a bit and the pacing ended up working for me. I liked the female friendship that was featured. It did seem like the hero’s bff may have been or will be featured in a book.

The portion that didn’t quite hit for me: the hero and heroine have some drama from the past and they never actually have a conversation about why the heroine made her choices back then. The reader knows why she does it, but she never actually talks to the hero about it. Also the very last reuniting scene was too far fetched and out of character for the hero, I wish the author would’ve come up with a different explanation for that occurrence. Lastly, I don’t think the epilogue added anything to the story.

Overall this was a fun and quick steamy - perfect for the summer- read. I’d totally recommend it for anyone hunting for a summer romance!

3.75-4 stars
3 out of 5 steam level

4.5 stars!!!! This book was SO cute!

Thank you so much to RS Grey and NetGalley for the ARC for exchange of an honest review.

I loved Casey and Phillip’s love story. Childhood enemies to lovers, poor vs rich, he falls first, he falls harder. It was all so perfect.

I also loved the “coming of age” and “finding oneself” aspect as well from Casey. I was so proud of her when (spoiler alert) she finally quit her awful job!

Loved all around!

Will be uploading a TikTok review by the end of April!

This book was fun and exactly what you want in a beach read. The plot wasn't heavy, the scenery and locations were gorgeously described, I even googled a few and they were spot on. This author is an automatic buy for me. Some times you need to escape into a book without any heavy subject matter or insufferable characters, which is just what this book did for me. My brain took a nice vacation aboard the cruise ship. I will definitely be recommending this for a summer read in my book group

Thanks Montlake for the ARC!

I have read every single R.S. Grey book and I will read all future books Rachel publishes. Grey's books suck you in and when you finally come up for air you realize you've been rotting in bed for the whole day. I've actually cancelled plans just to finish one of her books, they're so addicting!

Caribbean crush was a cute second chance romance + enemies to lovers story. Casey, the aspiring travel journalist and Phillip, the heir to a shipping company were so fun to read about. I loved their banter, Grey's specialty!

The only thing that made me give it 4/5 stars rather than 5/5 is that I wish the main characters had more time together, their HEA felt a bit rushed and I wish they would have delved a little deeper into their family and personal lives.

This will be the perfect summer read and I highly recommend it (as well as all of R.S. Grey's books!)

I really enjoyed this book! For me it was the perfect pace and kept me interested the whole time! Loved alllllll the characters. Thanks Netgalley and to the publisher.

Four Sweet Stars!!

This one starts out a little rocky. Casey Hughes never dreamed she’d be on a cruise ship for a work related assignment. But this assignment is going to be tricky once Phillip Woodmont denies her access…to himself. So she grows bolder by the day and things start to heat up. This was a fun entertaining story that is full of laughs and love.
I would highly recommend to any romance reader.

ARC copy provided by NetGalley.