Title: Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert #3)
Author: Olivia Dade
Publisher: Avon 2022
Genre: Romance
Pages: 404
Rating: 3/5 stars
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Maria’s one-night-stand—the thick-thighed, sexy Viking of a man she left without a word or a note—just reappeared. Apparently, Peter’s her surly Gods of the Gates co-star, and they’re about to spend the next six years filming on a desolate Irish island together. She still wants him…but he now wants nothing to do with her.
Peter knows this role could finally transform him from a forgettable character actor into a leading man. He also knows a failed relationship with Maria could poison the set, and he won’t sabotage his career for a woman who’s already walked away from him once. Given time, maybe they can be cooperative colleagues or friends—possibly even bestfriends—but not lovers again. No matter how much he aches for her.
For years, they don’t touch off-camera. But on their last night of filming, their mutual restraint finally shatters, and all their pent-up desire explodes into renewed passion. Too bad they still don’t have a future together, since Peter’s going back to Hollywood, while Maria’s returning to her native Sweden. She thinks she needs more than he can give her, but he’s determined to change her mind, and he’s spent the last six years waiting. Watching. Wanting.
His shipwrecked Swede doesn’t stand a chance.
I have enjoyed this series, but this particular volume just didn’t quite land with me. There was something about the pacing and the character interactions bothered me throughout the entire book. I finally figured out that my big problem was that the two main characters spend most of the book not even longing, but just as work colleagues. I got a bit bored throughout the middle. There was just too much back and forth, but not the great banter that I love. Overall there just wasn’t enough fun and steam in this one to really get me too excited.
Spoiler Alert
#3 Ship Wrecked
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