AUTHOR: Lise Gold GENRE: LGBTQ+ Romance PAGES: 321 pages RELEASED: 14 February 2022 SERIES: The Resort #2 SYNOPSIS: After years of working abroad as a chef, Zoe returns to her home town in Spain to embark on the next step in her career: executive chef in a new hotel. She’s excited to put together a team and create a menu to die for before the hotel opens, but after meeting the building contractor, wounds from her past put a dampener on the challenge. Marcy keeps herself busy. Apart from her day-to-day job as a contractor, she’s either working on her dream home or chasing the ladies. She’s a people pleaser; always friendly and on good terms with everyone, yet the new chef at the hotel she’s renovating can’t stand her, and she can’t figure out why. When they meet at a pool party during a women’s only weekend, Marcy is shocked to discover she shares a brief history with Zoe. A history she’d long forgotten about. Welcome to paradise where even when the sun goes down, the romance turns up the heat…
Returning home to Spain for the first time in years, chef Zoe is excited to be back near her family and putting down roots in her hometown of Benidorm. She’s just landed a job as the executive chef at El Escondite, the refurbished Premier Sunset hotel, and while the place in being renovated, she’s building her kitchen dream team. There’s just been one downer on this whole experience - the lead contractor is the woman she lost her virginity to, Marcy, and Marcy doesn’t even remember Zoe. The two seemingly do not get along, even though it’s clear they’re attracted to one another. So when Zoe drops the bomb on Marcy that they do in fact know each other, Marcy is determined to apologise for her actions as a teenager and for the way she’s acted during the renovation process. With things patched up, the pair grow closer and it’s not long before they can’t deny their attraction any longer. Marcy has always been flirt and the queen of one-night-stands, but for the first time she’s interested in a future with the woman she’s attracted to. She just has to show a reluctant Zoe that she’s in this for the long haul. Lise seriously has a way with words as we are once again transported to the sunny Spanish coast for another swoony sapphic romance. The way Lise describes her settings in amazing and she genuinely makes it so easy to imagine these locations and feel like you’re part of the story too. I feel like she could write about paint drying and it would be an interesting read. We were introduced to both Zoe and Marcy in Welcome To Paradise, so we already had a really fun set-up to their story. I really enjoyed that Lise took us back to show the development of their relationship during the timeline of Lisa and Stella’s story from the first book, rather than just picking up the timeline directly after the first book. While you definitely don’t have to have read book one to enjoy this one, it really does help give a little more background and context to this story, plus you get to see Lisa and Stella’s relationship, which was super cute. The romance may have been swoony and spicy, but the real story-stealer was the Tank, the Iberian Lynx. It was such a interesting inclusion into the story, and I was genuinely so invested in this tale of animal conservation that I actually teared up during the epilogue. Who knew a fictional Lynx could steal your heart just like these characters! I once again love that this story doesn’t feature any of the traditional romance angst - it’s refreshing to just follow this couple as they go from enemies to friends to lovers, without all the drama and angst and breakups. It’s just a sweet and steamy romance, with a side-serving of wild kitty. This was another gorgeous sapphic romance, so if you’ve not yet escaped to sunny Benidorm, you definitely need to add these books to your TBR, especially if you need a little extra spice in your life! |
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