Book Review
Jun. 19th, 2024 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariOff the Map
by Trish Doller
This fun and surprisingly deep romance takes place during a road trip across Ireland. Carla, a seasoned and adventurous traveler, arrives in Dublin to be the maid of honor at her best friend's wedding. There she meets Eamon, the best man, who is to drive her to the the small town where the wedding will take place at the end of the week. Sparks fly between the two of them, and when it turns out Eamon has a yearning for the kinds of travel adventures Carla builds her life around, they take a couple of detours on their way to the wedding location. The question is whether or not this is just a vacation fling or something more.
I very much enjoyed this story. Doller has a real talent for weaving in serious issues and feelings without making her romances too heavy or angsty. Carla has to face the realities of her father's dementia and Eamon is struggling against internal and external pressures to always be the steady responsible one. They both deal with their issues in mostly healthy, realistic ways. I do think that the resolutions to these issues may have been a little too easy in some ways, but they were still emotionally resonant. Carla and Eamon have a good relationship with lots of passion but also mutual encouragement and support.
by Trish Doller
This fun and surprisingly deep romance takes place during a road trip across Ireland. Carla, a seasoned and adventurous traveler, arrives in Dublin to be the maid of honor at her best friend's wedding. There she meets Eamon, the best man, who is to drive her to the the small town where the wedding will take place at the end of the week. Sparks fly between the two of them, and when it turns out Eamon has a yearning for the kinds of travel adventures Carla builds her life around, they take a couple of detours on their way to the wedding location. The question is whether or not this is just a vacation fling or something more.
I very much enjoyed this story. Doller has a real talent for weaving in serious issues and feelings without making her romances too heavy or angsty. Carla has to face the realities of her father's dementia and Eamon is struggling against internal and external pressures to always be the steady responsible one. They both deal with their issues in mostly healthy, realistic ways. I do think that the resolutions to these issues may have been a little too easy in some ways, but they were still emotionally resonant. Carla and Eamon have a good relationship with lots of passion but also mutual encouragement and support.
