This book is SO FUN! The perfect summer read, with some romance, adventure, and mystery! A second-chance romance set during Wild West treasure hunt is a plot I have not read before, and it immediately held my interest. Yes, the plot gets a bit silly at times, but I absolutely loved following along.

Something Wilder starts off as an excellent read, pulling me in from the beginning. Following Lily Wilder, daughter of the famous treasure hunter Duke Wilder, readers head out on a treasure adventure that just isn’t super believable. Lily leads a group of men (one who ends up being her long lost love) on a pretend treasure hunt that turns out to be a real treausre hunt. While the story is fun, it just wasn’t super believable.

I think this may be my favorite Christina Lauren book to date.
They deliver on the love story as per usual, but threw in a thrilling adventure to keep you on the edge of your seat. Lily and Leo have a classic misunderstanding come between them only to have a treasure hunt bring them together years later. Everything I could want in a book and more! Love, love, loved this until the last page.

Something Wilder is very different from the rest of CLo’s usual work, but they really knocked their adventure romance debut out of the park. A second chance romance with more than a hint of danger, this book appeals to fans of Speed, The Lost City, and The Mummy (but without the fantasy elements).

Lily and Leo are two people pining for one another despite miscommunications and tragedies that kept them apart after one magical summer together.

Meeting up years later, they are forced together on a team building camping trip that Lily is leading and almost from the start, the trip goes horribly and hilariously awry. Never have I been so excited for the impending doom of a secondary character…but that doom couldn’t happen to a better (terrible) person. From there, the narrative is off to the races for a rollicking and suspenseful adventure that will force Lily and Leo to work together and to see if the spark between them can turn into something…wilder. (Sorry, couldn’t help myself.)

Second chance love and a treasure hunt?! Who can say no to that! Add the fact that it is a @christinalauren book?! This makes it a must read for me!

Leo and Lily were a force to be reckoned with until Leo heads home to New York and never returns leaving Lily to work at her father’s ranch alone. Lily’s father was a treasure hunter and fascinated with Butch Cassidy. Following the sale of the ranch and the death of her father, Lily finds herself leading tour groups in Utah searching for the lost treasure of Cassidy’s bank robberies.

Leo finds himself on a guy’s trip that happens to be Lily’s tour. This is a shock to them Leo and Lily. What also is a shock is the trouble that arrived with Leo’s group. I’m not sure how many times I said, “I didn’t see that coming!” out loud.

This is not your typical Christina Lauren romance, but it doesn’t disappoint!

4 stars

Thank you to @netgalley @gallerybooks for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Also, thank you to @thechicklitbookclub for arranging the buddy ready and zoom call with the author!

This was definitely a wild ride complete with hidden treasure, puzzles, and lots of near death experiences. Fun and unexpected, but never entirely grabbed me like CL books usually do.

My heart is still swooning over this book and the relationship between Leo and Lily.

This story gives you all of the thrilling old western, treasure hunting, adventure vibes with a side of romance that will leave you so satisfied.

Lily Wilder, gives tours of the Utah mountains and canyons, with her expert knowledge from her father Duke for traveling these lands and hunting for long lost cowboy treasure that Butch Cassidy hid so many years before.

Everyone thought these legends couldn’t be real, except for a handful of loyal followers, bound and determined to find the buried treasure worth millions.

On Lily’s most recent tour, a group of men show up, with one quiet man named Leo. Lily’s long lost love of her life.

This second chance love, mixed in with a twisty thriller, western cowboy adventure really had me loving this!

I enjoyed this second chance at love romance. Especially since it had a hint of mystery and kept me very intrigued. A very charming love story between a country girl and a city boy. It is the perfect read for summer and I definitely recommend!

I'm a sucker for a treasure hunt adventure, and this one was great! A sassy cowgirl finds herself in an Indiana Jones type adventure with the guy-that-got-away; it's so fun! The steamy romance factor is well-done and funny, the main and secondary characters have lots of personality and I loved them, and you can taste the grit of the desert in your teeth.

Well done, Christina Lauren! Another fantastic book!

Something Wilder follows Lily Wilder's larger-than-life love story after she and her ex Leo accidentally reconnect. My favorite part about this book is that it's not only a sweet rom-com but an adventure. I've never read a rom-com like this and to be quite honest, I was pretty hesitant to start it. But Christina Lauren have outdone themselves yet again. I loved this book!

This was definitely different than what I have read in the past from Christina Lauren, but it was still good. It was hard to follow at times, perhaps a map would have been helpful. The story kept me interested though. I would like to hear more about Nic and Walt!

This is not one of my favorite Christina Lauren books. I don't know why but the story line didn't keep me very interested in the outcome.

Something Wilder is a second chance romance between a country girl and a city boy who couldn't be more different. Lily grew up on a ranch and has dreams to own a ranch of her own. Leo grew up in NYC, a math and algorithms whiz, who strives for hard work and stability for his family.

The two met a decade before the book took place on Lily's uncle's farm — though it's unclear why Leo spent a summer there in the first place. They fell in love and, when summer came to a close, Leo decided he would stay by her side.

Spoiler alert: life happened and they separated. Ten years later the pair meets on a trip supposed to be filled with a week of pretending to be a cowboy while treasure hunting. Much goes wrong but along the way they fall in love all over.

The book was just fine. I felt like it was slow and, despite all the happened, not particularly engaging or romantic. There were some interesting plot twists and I liked that this book felt like a quiet reflection on who we are and who we turn out to be. But while I loved the Soulmate Equation but this one left me a little worse for wear.

This book was... rough. Honestly wasn't super hooked in the beginning and about 25% in if I remember correctly something huge happens that honestly doesn't even seem realistic. I won't spoil it but I strongly feel the build up to this event could've been written a lot better. I also felt like the riddles and clues and stuff were pretty advanced for a book like this and some of the parts just got dragged out a lot. I appreciated the effort and the overall storyline but this one wasn't a favorite.

This book was such a surprise! I expected a second chance romance but was very happy to discover that Something Wilder is a thriller and a mystery, too. The twist pulled me in right away and I was unable to put the book down until the very end.

Christina Lauren you sexy bitch (or should I say bitches?). I really LOVED ‘Something Wilder.’ This book was one of my favs but it may not be for everyone… please read on.

This book is a treasure hunt, a western, and a second chance romance all rolled into one. Lily Wilder is the daughter of an infamous treasure-hunter Duke Wilder. Duke is long gone and now Lily runs a tourist destination where she leads visitors into the Utah wilderness to maybe ‘find treasure.’ That is until Will shows up with his buddies… Will & Lily have a history and well, things didn’t end so well. The story takes unsuspecting turns and is there REALLY TREASURE?!

This is NOT your typical CL rom com. This is an adventure romance with a bit of a thriller aspect. Honestly the romance in this story takes a back seat to the treasure hunt. I’m not sure if readers who enjoy the lighter CL romcom will enjoy this one as much. At one part of this book I was like 😳😳😳 WOAH this really took a turn!!! (Iykyk)

‘Something Wilder’ just came out on May 17 and I had the opportunity to have it in book and audio format. I mostly listened on @librofm (it was great on audio!!), therefore I finished it pretty fast. Thank you @kellysloveforbooks for sending me the ARC copy! You’re the best!

Have you read this one? Did you love it, like it, or hate it?? I’m curious.

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"Something Wilder" is exactly that - a contemporary romance full of adventure (and a caution about the true trails of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid!) that was delightful and incredibly fun to read.

Lily and Leo meet in the wild lands of Utah, with Lily fully expecting to run her family's ranch alongside the new love of her life. Quickly, the rose colored future falls apart - Leo goes home to New York City for a family emergency, and goes radio silent. Lily's father, the famous adventurer Duke Wilder, makes her life complicated with both money and health, and before she knows it, her twenties quickly go sideways.

Now, she's running a tourist adventure tour for grown-ups and hating every minute of it. That is, until Leo unsuspectingly reappears with his friends and they have to come to terms with the fallout of their past relationship, all while on the hunt for Duke's missing treasure and the chance to redeem their broken pasts.

In short, I would highly recommend this book. It was fun, engaging and full of turns that I don't typically expect from a Christina Lauren novel. Full of heart and depth, this open-door romance was all I wanted

Christina Lauren gives us an adventure-romance in Something Wilder. It is not your usual offering from the writing duo, Christina Lauren, but I really liked it. You can expect characters with great chemistry that you will want to see through to their happy ending.

I read it in the beginning of the month and really enjoyed the story. This is a fun romance filled with lots of wild-west adventure. I definitely recommend reading this one on the beach or by the pool.

I usually LOVE Christina Lauren books….I mean, I was reading their stories back when they were on fan fiction before ever publishing anything. Something Wilder I struggled to get hooked on so I stopped at about the halfway point. The characters didn’t pull me in and then once they were forced together there still seemed to be missing a spark. This was a DNF for me but because of the author I kept going until the halfway point before setting it aside.