Member Reviews
Hannah is a young woman working for NASA on a project at a remote Arctic station. One day she gets into trouble, and only one person is willing to take the dangerous rescue mission to come and save her. Ian has been many things to her over the years, potential love interest and villain. But Hannah is about to find out he can be even more.
I liked this one I thought it was really cute. All of these novellas were told with flashback timelines and it worked for these stories. Hannah was a tad bit frustrating as a heroine, but I still liked her. Ian was a perfect hero, quiet yet strong and hopelessly smitten with Hannah. There was some miscommunication trope and while I usually like that in my romance, it didn’t work in this one. But overall this was a great novella where the pining hero rescues him dream girl and it hit my heart in all the right places. I am so excited to see what more Ali Hazelwood has in store for us
3 stars, it was very okay.. kinda a similar plot as Stuck With You and I felt a little bored throughout the novella. The story was not as compelling for me as Ali's other book & novellas!
This might be my favorite of the novellas.
I really enjoyed our two main characters, Hannah and Ian. I feel like, despite being a novella, Ali Hazelwood managed to fit in some great character development as well as some fun twists and turns in their relationship. I especially loved the casual queer rep, something Ali Hazelwood always does fantastically.
This book only got me more excited to read more Ali Hazelwood. I need more books. Immediately.
A devoted hero is my catnip and Ian had me falling all over myself in this book.
Hannah and Ian meet while Hannah is in college. He is Mara's cousin and agrees to let Hannah interview him about his job at NASA. Hannah doesn't do relationships but she feels a zing as soon as she sees Ian. Ian hasn't had much experience in relation to the ladies, but he knows a fling isn't in his nature. After the "thing" they experience one day, they both walk away, but never really forget.
Years later, when Hannah begins to work for NASA and sees Ian again, that familiar spark is there. But when he shoots down the project she's worked so hard on, she vows to hate him for all eternity. It turns out there was good reason for what he did, and it's even better that since she got her funding, he's followed her there "just in case".
Ian is a man who will do anything for someone he cares about, that is clear. He is the big softie hero that I want in all of my books. Hannah was a little too flightly and fought her feelings just a bit too much for my liking, mostly because I didn't have enough of her backstory as to why she acted the way she did. I am a huge fan of novellas, but I really did want a little more of these two. The ending of this book was just so perfect and made me feel all the warm and fuzzies.
Thank you to Ali Hazelwood, Netgalley and Berkley for an early copy.
3.5 stars
1) Easily the best premise and narrator of the the series. I'm bewildered that the publisher got so-so narrators for an audio-first release scheme (UNDER ONE ROOF narration was so bad that I DNFed after two minutes while STUCK WITH YOU narration was tolerable).
2) I don't understand why the heroine on the cover looks... not white. There are zero descriptions in the story so I *think* she's actually white? I don't know, man. The cover is ambiguous enough that I'm irritated.
3) But! Actual "rescue after nearly dying in an avalanche" storyline was good. I liked that the "big miscommunication" (the plot point where the heroine mistakenly thinks the hero is a villain) was explained to the reader immediately, even if the heroine was too angry to believe it.
Read via audio.