The Bali Bucket List: A Steamy Travel Romance About Starting Over
by Ava Wilde
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Pub Date Jul 21 2025 | Archive Date May 14 2026
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Description
A spicy, tender, laugh-out-loud story of transformation.
Jasmine was the good girl from HR. Engaged, dependable, and quietly miserable. Three months before her wedding, her fiancé of ten years announces he needs to “find himself.”
So Jasmine does the unthinkable. She takes the honeymoon alone.
She flies to Bali, checks into a hostel under a fake name, and follows a bucket list of everything she was too polite to want.
Travel solo. Say no. Take a stranger to bed. Or two. Become a writer. Love again.
At the hostel, Jasmine falls in with a tribe of lovable misfits and tears through her list, blogging every delicious detail along the way. Between the Swedish surfer, the bombshell in the top bunk, and the stranger on the motorbike, she barely notices her anonymous sex blog has accidentally made her the most talked-about woman on the internet.
When the world starts hunting for the woman behind the posts, Jasmine has to decide who she wants, and whether she's brave enough to choose a life that's finally her own.
For fans of Eat Pray Love style self-discovery, with less praying and a lot more sinning.
Tropes: Writer FMC, Paradise Setting, Good Girl Gone Wild, Multiple Love Interests, One HEA, Spiritual Healing, Starting Over, Second Chance, Found Family, Female Friendship.
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
CW: This is a romance with erotica-level heat and multiple love interests. Please check the full content warnings before reading.
A Note From the Publisher
You may know me from my earlier ARC here, Temple of the Tentacle Priests. Despite my track record, this one is entirely tentacle-free 🙃
It is my debut, an emotional yet laugh-out-loud contemporary romance, and it remains the book I’m proudest of. I poured my soul into it.
This new edition fixes a handful of typos and formatting issues from the original. I've also rewritten the entire book in present tense, added more humor, and included special bonus chapters.
Happy reading!
Ava
Advance Praise
Reviews (First Edition):
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
@victoriasferalbtr: This book is absolutely unhinged in the best, most emotionally consuming way. I was so deeply immersed in Jazz’s journey that I felt every single emotion right along with her... a story about heartbreak, healing, self destruction, and self discovery. It made me laugh, it made me ache, and it made me want to highlight entire pages because the writing hit that hard.
@onceuponafridaa: That was probably the spiciest romance book I’ve read in a LONG time. But also, the most soul-searching romance book I’ve EVER read. Like the author herself wrote in her thank you letter at the end, ”therapy through smut”, is a pretty damn good way of describing this book... This book is riddled with beautiful writing, humor and realizations, and gorgeous sceneries from the beautiful country of Bali. And most important, friendship. The friends she has and gains throughout this story, are for life. Beautifully written.
The Book Ssirren: Okay, I walked into something I was not prepared for. I did not expect what I read at all. But I’m so not mad about it. I absolutely loved the way this book was written. Such an original take on some soul searching, reflecting, just be yourself kind of story. And the spice 🥵🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🔥🌶️🤯 there’s not enough emojis to explain it lol. But had the best time with this book. Jazz went all out with exploring and finding herself.
@tia.reads: Some of my favorite chapters have to be the blog posts! They are profound, engaging and reflective. Each blog post also has a comment section that shows both the good and bad side of social media. I am addicted to these characters and would love to see more of them! Their individual journeys deserve to be told and I would read them immediately. Get this book added to your TBR and thank me later!
Sarah king: That was the naughtiest book I’ve ever read. The last supper will forever be imbedded into my brain.
Sixto Villalba: Jasmine is such a badass, independent woman, and her journey of finding herself and owning her life is honestly so empowering.
Winged Creature: This was precisely what I wanted. Fun and smutty. I had a great time reading it and reccomend it to anyone looking for the same.
Maren: eat pray love but make it SPICYYYYY and unhinged in the best way. reading this literally felt like watching a chaotic 90s romcom, with ALL the vibes
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