Smart, clever, funny, and sexy, this romance is also deep. Carla Black has had an interesting life. When she was small and her mother walked out of her life, her father, "Biggie", distracted her (and himself) from being sad by cooking up endless camping trips. One of their goals was to camp at every national park and forest site in the US, which they did, and she's got a "passport" book filled with stamps to commemorate it. Now Biggie has dementia, and he has sent Carla away, not wanting her to see him decline. She complies. One great distraction is that her best friend, Anna, is getting married in Ireland and Carla will be her maid of honor. However, once there, Carla falls in lust and love with the best man, Eamon. He's been a good boy all his life, a people pleaser, and he's unsettled when he meets Carla (insta-love for both of them) because she's living the perfect life! She works as a bartender, making money in Key West during the tourist season, and the rest of the year travels the world. When they spend time together, she changes his life, and he causes her to question hers.

This was a really fun, deep, enjoyable, emotional read. I loved Doller's style. Carla is my kind of heroine: capable, strong, and funny. A great book.

Trish Doller does it again! Off the Map is everything you have come to expect from her writing- you will laugh, you will cry, you will swoon! She treats her characters with such tender care, and writes the world’s best book boyfriends. Infused with adventure (and misadventures) Carla and Eamon’s story will punch you in the feels!

3.5/5
An actually lovely read! I've learned to be wary of any plot device that uses the strangers to lovers crutch because sometimes authors will make the entire book solely about the dynamic, but when done well (romeo and juliet, before sunrise, and now this book) it complements the storyline quite nicely. I felt like Eamon and Carly were well fleshed out characters of their own, and I enjoyed reading about their adventures. I think the ending contained a cop out though, and I wished it were more realistic, but well written anyhow.

Wow! What a wonderful third book from Trish Doller. I fell in love with The Float Plan and the Suite Spot that I was so excited to be back in the Beck Sisters world.

This book starts in Ireland and makes me want to book a trip ASAP. This book centers on Clara and Eamon adventures but also gives you a glimpse into the wonderful characters we met in the first two books. 

Do yourself a favor and read this book!

⭐Book Review⭐
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RELEASES: March 2023

Carla decides to travel the world rather than face her father's declining health at home, but when she meets Eamon, the best man at her best friend's wedding, she realizes that time is too short and after an adventurous couple days together, she steps up to face responsibility. Will the distance keep Carla and Eamon apart?

I really liked this book. This is book 3 of a series but it can  be read as a stand alone. I've read The Suite Spot but not the Float Plan, and I didn't feel like I missed anything. The characters had chemistry, spunk, and a fulfilling backstory. I esspecially loved Carla's history and the relationship with her dad and step mom; it added drama, motivation and stakes.  I'm definitely reading The Float Plan soon.

Overall, a cutesy love story with depth!
4.5 Stars.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

I absolutely LOVED this book and the characters were amazingly written. It was an adorable love story between Carla and Eamon and I just couldn't get enough of them together. They had amazing chemistry from the start and that only grew as the spent more time together. She was what he always wanted, she helped him wake up and chase his dreams; he was the person who made her see she didn't have to keep running or distancing herself from others to be happy and I loved that aspect of the book so much. They found a home in each other.

Carla and Eamon embarked on what should have been a simple cross country drive to a wedding and turned it into some incredible adventures that they shared together. Carla got to share a part of herself she had never shared with anyone and showed Eamon a huge part of her life through a few detours - BUT without them realizing it, things got a little more serious that just a little vacation fling.

Although this book was a bit sad in some parts it was wrapped up in the most perfect way and YES it made me cry but it wasn't just sad tears, the way the circumstances were written and turned into a celebration was so beautiful. I felt what the characters felt and mourned but also celebrated the life of Biggie; he was such a focal point in this book and I loved reading about him and Carla's adventures.

Not me reading this series out of order without even realizing - I do own float plan and I am SOOO excited to read another book by this author soon! I loved her style of writing and this novella was AMAZING; such a fun read! Definitely recommend if you like a story full of adventure, laughs, and amazing chemistry with some spice in the mix. It gave me all the feels and I cannot say how much I enjoyed it enough.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

As far as I'm concerned Trish Doller can do no wrong!! I fell in love with Float Plan and Off the map is equally as good with bonus cameos from Anna and Keane. This book follows Anna's friend Carla as she travels to Ireland for Anna's wedding only to get sidetracked along the way with Keane's brother Eamon who has always dreamed of adventures but never had the guts to take the leap.

Carla on the other hand lives to travel and helps Eamon find the courage to go after what he really wants. The chemistry between these two was undeniable with both sizzling open door scenes and sweet tender moments of connection. In addition Carla is dealing with her father's declining health as he battles dementia and I thought the author did such a great job with that storyline!!

Perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez or Sarah Grunder Ruiz. Much thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an early digital copy in exchange for my honest review!!

This book was such a miss for me in so many ways, it's hard to pinpoint exactly where to start. Off the Map follows Clara and Eamon as they embark on a roadtrip across Ireland toward his brother's wedding. Along the way, they discover uncomfortable truths and share terrifying vulnerabilities, culminating in feelings neither of them expected.

I think my largest problem with this book as a whole, was how White it was. From the characters to the plot to the tone, it was extremely obvious that this book was written by a White author for a White audience (I mean, just look at the scene where Carla jumps in a lake and decides she's "cleaned up"). The two main characters are extremely privileged, holding ignorant and colonizer mindsets about international travel; there's even a scene where a POC lauds Carla as being "respectful of our culture because you're not like those White girls taking selfies." Except that's exactly who Carla is; she travels to POC countries, skimming by on the barest essentials, and because she perceives herself as not staying at a resort or participating a "typical" tourist culture, she believes herself to be respectful to the Indigenous people of that country.

To top that off, the two main characters are insufferable people. Their primary mode of communication (both with each other and with their friends/family) is through selfish/self-centered passive aggression, never taking the steps to recognize that this is not healthy, to the point where the book romanticizes mutual toxicity in their partnership ("Maybe messy people need other messy people" rhetoric was rampant in this book).

Overall, This book was a big miss for me; I absolutely would never recommend it, especially for POC readers.

This book was an utter delight. I don't normally like the insta-love trope but Carla and Eamon were so authentic and relatable that it was impossible not to fall in love with them and their adventures. A quick and sweet read that was packed with spice, laughter, loss, and so much love. *chefs kiss*

What an absolutely delightful read! This is my first encounter with this author, but definitely won't be my last.

Carla Black, on the surface, seems a tough heroine. She's got a sleeve of tattoos gathered from her travels around the world, just her and her Jeep. Part of the year she tends bar in a Fort Lauderdale dive, and the rest of the time, she travels. Of late, her adventures have kept her from facing the sad reality that her beloved dad, Biggie, is sliding away into dementia. Biggie is the emotional core that makes Carla a relatable and vulnerable character, her madcap escapades a way to honor her dad and stock up on memories of her own in case the same thing happens to her someday.

It's sheer rom-com convention that Carla, in Ireland to be maid of honor for her best friend Anna, kisses the best man she's meeting there, Eamon Sullivan, before she even says hello. But Doller sells the moment, as she sells the hop in the sack that follows. Eamon and Carla connect on several levels, and Carla's tales of her travels coax forth the wandering spirit that Eamon's kept bottled up for his family's sake. He suggests an overnight camping trip before they join the wedding party, and Carla, of course, won't say no.

Their adventures on the way to the wedding are described in wonderful detail from the fields of heather and dancing in the moonlight to being trapped in a car by a curious bull and enjoying an Irish surf festival. But the detail Doller really nails is the developing emotional attachment; she wrings out a delicious blend of attraction, joy, discovery, and even a teensy bit of emotional soul-searching. Carla gives Eamon permission to confront his family about certain painful dynamics, but that sends her back to Biggie to work out some issues of her own. There the story veers from rom-com territory into family, friendship, facing adulthood, and the difficult terrain of aging and illness. But none of it is a bummer than drags the story down; Carla comes to terms with her past, and gets her happy ending after all.

It's not necessary to have read Float Plan, the book that introduced Anna and Keane's love story, but after enjoying them so much in this book, now I want to. Doller has created a confection I happily devoured, and I want more.

Delightful and entertaining love story. I had so much fun reading the book and meeting these characters. I recommend to everyone reading romance novels!

“Here for a good time, not for a long time”

Off the Map - 4/5 ⭐️
📍 Road Trip
📍 InstaLove
📍 Forced Proximity

I really liked this book. I'm not a huge fan of insta-love stories and even though this was one, the characters and the writing overcame all of that. The connection between Carla and Eamon was so strong it was like they had already known each other forever. The writing draws you in and the characters were likable and funny. Besides, the MCs communicated perfectly with each other and it was nice to see that so well represented.
My one complaint: it felt a bit rushed near the end. I wish we had a little more time in the story and there were certain plot points I wish had been explored further.
This is the first book I have read by this author and even though it's part of a series it can be read as a standalone (although I'll definitely go back and read the first two!).

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
Off the Map will be released on March 7th, 2023!

World traveler Carla attests she is “here for a good time, not for a long time.” Stopping her adventures just long enough to make money to move onto the next place, she never puts down roots. Then, she meets Eamon, a cartographer who makes digital maps but never travels anywhere. Both of them are looking for a new sense of direction.

_Off the Map_, coming out in March 2023, in is officially the third book in a series by Trish Doller, but each book can be read as a standalone. Her covers make the books look like fluff, but she so deftly covers topics of loss and grief in each book in a unique and gentle way. The first book in the series, Float Plan, was one of my favorite reads of 2021 (out of 296), and the second, The Suite Spot, was one of my favorites of March this year. I find Doller's works to be effortlessly readable.

Thank you, NetGalley, for an advanced copy of the manuscript.

Thank you NetGalley for an early copy of Off the Map by Trish Doller in exchange for an honest review.

I have complicated feelings about Off the Map. At times, I loved it. Like with the other books in this series, Trish Doller wrote such an immersive setting that I felt like I was traveling with Carla and Eamon. And I loved everywhere we “went.” It was so fun feeling like I was on an adventure with them, even during the mishaps- like the one on the cover.

Eamon is such a lovable character. As Carla kept asking Eamon, “How are you still single?” I kept thinking the same thing; he’s such a catch. But while these two had great chemistry (that first kiss was wow!), I didn’t really root for them and I think that’s because I wanted more for Eamon- Carla just was not my cup of tea. And since Carla was the main character, it kind of affected my enjoyment of the story.

The insta-sex was also a little unexpected and jarring for me. I don’t think I would have minded how fast this book got steamy if Carla wasn’t so insistent that she was only interested in keeping things physical and temporary.

I think if this book were a little longer and Carla had been given more opportunity for growth, I may have enjoyed this story more. I also felt like the pacing of this story was a little off and if it were a little longer, that may not have been as much of an issue for me either. So much happened at the end of the story and there were certain plot points I wish had been explored further.

I still think this is worth a read, even though it’s my least favorite in the series. It’s a super quick read and we get to see how Anna and Keane are doing.

Off The Map is my second adult fiction read by Trish Doller, and book three in the standalone Beck Sisters series. This one once again took on the personal growth journey of an MC (Carla), while also having a strong romantic thread - what is classify as a romantic drama read.

Highlights for me:

Main setting was Ireland got a destination wedding (get ready to feel a pull to visit!)
The subtle threads of Carla’s childhood / upbringing and relationship with her father Biggie woven throughout
The heartbreaking, bittersweet window into the realities of dementia
Eamon and Carla’s unexpected connection and adventure

While I’ll be the first to admit Insta love is not my trope and there is definitely a strong vice of that here, it was handled in such a way that still managed to hold my interest and accept it. (Still not my trope, but it was handled well here).

I did enjoy both Carla and Eamon and appreciated a peek into a total different lifestyle and mindset from my own. I thought the descriptions were interesting and compelling and I’d a nice job of giving that taste of wanderlust.

I would say the romance in this one didn’t feel like the focus, even with its prominent role to the first half of the book. The part that sticks out for me and with me, was about Carla and Biggie and her journey to come to terms with loss.

Overall, I think this was a solid read and one I recommend. Thank you to NetGalley and St Martins Press for the opportunity to read an early copy! All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.

This cute little book cover was what made me want to grab it truth be told.
The story was ok.
Carla has a journey with life's ups and downs just like everyone else's. Just that hers may be a little rougher than most.
I think what I liked most about this book was how thos new to me author didn't beat around the bush with sad and tough subjects including dementia. How hard that must be for the person's family that chooses to take care of them! How heartbreaking as well!
Very well written! Believable and realistic.
5 stars for a job well done! I highly recommend!
My thanks for a copy of this book. This is part of a series

I liked Float Plan, and I loved The Suite Spot (one of my favourite reads of 2022, that I’ve already reread!) but I realized very quickly into Off The Map that this story is just not for me.

Carla seems very ‘not like other girls,’ Eamon seemed to talk about his ex a lot, sex happened very quickly and randomly (in my opinion), and the line ‘only if you promise not to fall in love with me’ coming in just made me officially decide that it’s not a good fit for me. Also, I loved Rachel & Mason on The Suite Spot and after searching for their names in the eBook, they’re only mentioned a handful of times compared to Anna & Eamon’s names being mentioned over 100 times each (which is expected, considering the setting, but I would have loved to see more of Rachel & Mason). I think for this series, The Suite Spot is one that I can read as a stand-alone and I honestly am happy with that.

All that being said, while this wasn’t for me, I know some people LOVE those tropes. Sex early in the book is basically a requirement for them to enjoy a book. They love the angst of an ex being mentioned. I do not. But I think it’s cool that this book exists; I love companion novels and seeing side characters get their own stories.

Thank you to St. Martin’s Griffin & NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book!

Get your tissues! Off the Map brings you Carla's story (Anna's friend from Float Plan) and an Irish hottie (Keane's brother from Float Plan) who hit it off instantly. Carla is standing up in Anna's wedding so she travels to Ireland but her and Eamon take a few detours first and the chemistry is undeniable. Eamon has some baggage of his own that is getting in the way of his travel plans. Carla is just the person so light a fire for him to start doing more of what he wants and less of what he thinks he should do.

This was on the shorter side, which I appreciated as I read it in a day and the story really didn't need to be longer than that. I did think the instalove was a little too instant and the steam felt like steam for no reason. However the second half of the book worked for me. I loved Carla's found family lessons and the end had me tearing up.

This could be read as a stand along but takes place in the Float Plan universe.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

content warnings: death of a parent

Of the three books in this series, Float Plan continues to be the strongest of the bunch. That said, Off the Map does seem to have more going for it than The Suite Spot (in terms of having a plot and obstacles and conflict). so while I didn't think this was a return to form for Trish Dollar, I do think this will be a well-received installment to the Beck Sisters.

The deal is Carla Black is here for a good time, not a long time. It's a motto she got from her dad, Biggie, whom she idolizes. She lives her life by his arbitrary rules (live out of a backpack when you travel, prioritize fun over meaningful connection, etc). Obviously there's some trauma there that no one is processing, but the book does attempt to get to that, so it gets points for that.

Carla runs into Eamon, Keane's brother, in Ireland, as both are going to Keane and Anna's wedding. They connect instantly, at least in the lust sense since Carla isn't the fall in love type. So the two go merrily bounding around Ireland to fulfill Keane's dream of having a good time, which he was restricted from doing for some reason despite being a full-fledged adult who does not have to do what his mother says anymore. Honestly, both the emotional arcs of these people hinge on childhood misunderstandings they should have outgrown before their thirties, so they're a bit stunted. This can make them both a bit hard to relate to, but for the purposes of the novel it works.

Otherwise, there's fun antics, interesting side characters, some good love scenes, and a nice progression to the the Eamon/Carla relationship. Overall, this is a solid installment to the trilogy or series.

I was so looking forward to to this book, and it did not disappoint! If you’re looking for a sweet story about family, adventure, and love, this is it! I loved it!