But despite their rocky start these two unlikely people can't help but fall for each other under the starry Canadian skies. The last thing she expects is to clash with standoffish ski instructor Neve. So when she discovers she forgot to cancel her honeymoon she sees this as the perfect opportunity to get away it's time to relax and embrace adventure! She's tired, overworked and most definitely not ready to spend the holidays with her rowdy family in Manchester. Robin Ellis has had a year she'd like to forget. 'This is such an adorable rom-com story! A perfect holiday read!' - Reader review, 5 starsĪ cancelled engagement. That might have been why the middle section seemed to drag a little too.*Don't miss the brand-new gorgeously uplifting summer book from Rachel Bowdler, Summer at the Scottish Castle - available to pre-order now!* Robin and Neve’s attraction was there on page, but I just didn’t feel it so much. It means I liked it) was that, at times, it felt a little dry. Possibly then, the one reason that I didn’t rate this book more than 3 stars (which, I would like to take a moment to stress, is a good rating. It’s one of those romance novels where you hope there’ll be a sequel that focuses on some of the side characters, because they feel like they should be allowed their own story. And it’s not just Robin and Neve who benefit from this, but all of the side characters too. I think this is the best part of the book, how much thought and care has been put into developing the characters. If it doesn’t make sense for Robin and Neve to act in a certain way, they don’t. They’re not cardboard cutouts being shoved into a plot progression that the author thinks they should fit, without any consideration to whether they do fit it-it’s Robin and Neve and their personalities that drive how the plot goes. Of course, this believability is, I think, helped by the fact that both Robin and Neve feel like real people. By the end of the book, they’d only known each other for about two weeks, but it didn’t feel like that, which is a hallmark of a good romance author for me. Probably a highlight of this book was their relationship, how it built slowly, and how it made you believe they hadn’t just met each other. But, as they’re sort of forced to spend more and more time together, each starts to thaw. Whatever the polar opposite of clicking is, they do it. Honeymoon for One is a sweet romance, centering on Robin who, months after having just been unceremoniously cheated on and dumped by her fiancee, realises that she forgot to cancel their honeymoon, and Neve, the ski instructor at the resort where Robin ends up, convinced by her sister to use the honeymoon on her own.Īt first, Robin and Neve do not click.

Honeymoon for One by Rachel Bowdler