Book Blurb:
His perfectly planned life is about to go wild.
By-the-numbers Bo Ferguson has his future all planned. Then his archaeologist fiancée dumps him. Via text. From Belize. Navigating the rainforest to win her back is way out of Bo’s comfort zone, but so is the idea of starting over. Fortunately, he’s secured a tour guide willing to lead him into the unmapped jungle. Unfortunately, she’s annoying, impulsive—and attractive as hell.
Jungle expert Alexandra Stone is in no position to turn down a job after her regrettable ex stole everything from her family business and ran. Sure, Bo might be frustratingly uptight, but Alex needs the money. And besides, there’s something…fun about pushing the guy’s adorably rigid buttons, especially when it clearly gets a rise out of him.
But the close confines of their shared camp make it hard to ignore the tension beneath the bickering, prompting the sweltering heat between them to erupt into sweaty, wild passion. Bo can’t deny his brief time with Alex has been the most exciting of his life. But the journey they’re on still leads to one place—his ex-fiancée—forcing Bo and Alex to confront their pasts, their fears and the question of just where this adventure will take them…
*Netgalley ALC *Adventure Romance *opposites attract *State Challenge: Maryland
*Fish out of water *Forced proximity *Rom-Com *Travel romance *tour guide FMC *Witty banter
*insta lust/love *spice *cozy read *Grief (loss of father FMC prior to start of story) *panic attacks
Thoughts:
Bo is a rules guy, he actually reads the instructions manual to things and he lives a no nonsense set in stone life... next on his list is marrying the love of his life, they have been together for 7 years and have known each other since they were kids... so when she decides to apply for an archaeology dig thousands of miles away from their home in Maryland he's surprised but lets her go if that's what she feels she needs to do to advance her career... but when she stops accepting his calls and dumps him over a text message then ghosts him he has to find out what's going on with her their relationship can't end this way.
Alex (FMC) is an abrupt no nonsense tour guide, she loves living in Belize where she worked with her father to build his tour guide business and things had been going well until her father passed away, thankfully at the time she had her boyfriend to help pick up the pieces... only he was a wolf in sheep's clothing since he worked for her company as the accountant, got her in debt to a lot of different creditors took out a loan from a loan shark and then stole any proceeds from her business before falling off the face of the planet.
Bo needs a guide to get him to (ex) fiance... he just knows she's made a mistake and they are meant to be together and he will show he can be impulsive and isn't so uptight about everything... just look at him now he's left the comfort of his home and he's going to rough it across a foreign country... he can be adventurous too! In comes Alex she needs the money to pay this loan shark... and this hot nerd needs all the help he can get.
Naturally Bo and Alex come together for this adventure as complete opposites while Bo prepares for everything Alex has prepared (partially) for their trip but is more of a live in the moment and change plans on the fly kind of girl. Alex helps Bo see that he can live a little more and come out of his shell while Bo helps Alex see maybe she could stand to be slightly more organized.
It was really cute to see them get closer together on their trip which got side tracked a few times and led to more days spent together in close proximity. But Bo is on a mission to get back together with his ex, isn't he? and Alex can't give her heart over to some guy who she is helping to get to his ex and lives in another country... her last relationship really did a number on her.
This might be just a me thing but I felt that it was a bit too soon for our couple to completely fall for each other over the course of less than a week only shortly after (like a few weeks) our MMC was dumped via text... even if his ex is a jerk.
This was a cozy rom-com, while there was some adventure I thought there would be more to it than off roading after some transportation issues and visiting a few sites, I would have liked a little more "adventure."
Over all I enjoyed this one it had fun and flirty vibes and I'm looking forward to the next book in the series. Thank you to the author and netgalley for this ALC copy the narrator did a great job bringing these characters to life!
