When I picked up my advance copy of The Backup Plan, I was looking for a feel good read and Ms Shalvis did not disappoint.

We meet Alice, Knox, and Lauren when they jointly inherit a semi run down inn from Eleanor. Each of them has a their own history/relationship with both the property and Eleanor. Alice and Lauren have their own complicated back story.

I appreciated the way Ms Shalvis used Eleanor and her emails along with the work around the inn to peel back some of the layers encouraging all three characters to develop. Old wounds were poked, insecurities revealed, and relationships grew in the month that they were “forced” together.

We see each character face a hard thing and come out the other side as a better person. I enjoyed how the three partners supported each other and communicated so that they seemed to inherently know who the struggling person needed to talk to. The personal growth led to new friendships and romantic developments.

Add in Ms Shalvis’ classic humor and this is a well written must read set in the Tahoe area town is Sunset Cove. This is the third book in this series, but is a complete standalone.

I received an arc from NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.

Alice, Lauren and Knox are brought together again after Eleanor’s passing. Eleanor was a woman who made mistakes but had a second chance with these three when they were kids.

As Alice and the gang are forced to work together to bring Eleanor’s Inn back to life they find out lots of things about each other and that they are better together as a family than apart.

Alice and Knox are attracted to one another and Lauren finds a new friend that turns into something more.

These three together will make you laugh and cry with their antics and self realizations. Great read. 4.5 stars

Three friends come back together after the death of a person important to all of them. They inherit a hotel that was once featured in a television show. The hotel needs a lot of refurbishing before it can be sold. They are able to mend their broken relationships and find love and a renewed friendship.

Knox had a difficult childhood and feels responsible for not saving his mother, who was an alcoholic. He was mentored by Elanor, who gave him a focus, and being able to fix everything around a house allowing him to eventually open his own business building Eco-friendly homes and being successful. Knox is a man who loves wholeheartedly and knows what he wants. He quickly realizes that what he wants is Alice.

Alice ran after her whole life fell apart. Her brother enjoyed racing cars and living life in the fast lane. Alice looked up to her older brother, who helped shape her into who she is. She loves working on cars but gave that up when her brother died and her father lost their home in a lawsuit. Her father disappeared from her life afterwards to work in Europe on the racing circuit.

Alice has closed herself off from feeling emotions and doesn't get involved in relationships. However, when her and Knox see each other again, after years apart, it is like they draw all the electricity in the room to them. The electricity is so strong, you almost expect to start seeing fireworks start shooting off from the static flow. These two understand each other like no one else, they understand why the other feels the way that they do. I could not imagine a better couple than these two.

Lauren lost everyone she cared about in a very short time. She lost her boyfriend, her best friend, and her family. Now after her great-aunt died and left the three of them 1/3 each of her estate with very specific instructions, does she realize what she has needed. She needs that sense of belonging, family, and something to guide her by finding what she loves. As the three of them work together on bringing the estate up to code, they all grow closer and her and Alice figure out what they are missing out on. Lauren also finds love in the one place she never expects.

I loved this book. I swear each book in this series just gets better and better. All three of these characters warm your heart and they help you to see you really can have a second chance and you can find love in places you never saw. You can have a closed heart but that one special person can open you up and help you face your past. I loved The Backup Plan and highly highly recommend it. You just may want to clear your schedule and have some tissues near by because once you dive in you can't climb out of this story and it makes you feel all the feels.

This is a book of 3 people brought back together. Alice & Lauren had been best friends, but when Will, Alice's brother, was killed the friendship was broken. Alice had a crush on Knox when she was younger so to be a co owner of the Inn when they both worked as teenagers, is requiring her to do some soul searching. This book was slow in some places, but over all a good read. Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy

This was an enjoyable read. While all the characters had trauma, it was lighthearted and they approached everything with kindness and understanding. It would have been cool to hear more about the background of the tv show but it seemed something like dukes of hazzard

When Alice, Lauren and Knox inherent a dilapidated Wild West B&B they don’t realize that they are to work together to bring it back to its original condition. Their lives are connected from their younger days and the relationship they had with the owner. Alice, Lauren and Knox are dealing with their own history and secrets from the past. Stuck together they set up rules so they can work together. As they work together they get insight into their own lives and rebuild the relationships they had with each other.
Great read as all her books!



Thanks to Jill Shalvis and Avon and Harper Voyager!

The Backup Plan is the story of 3 friends who lost touch for various reasons. When the owner of the B&B leaves it to the 3 of them after she passes away it brings them back together, along with their hard feelings, their love for each other, and forces them to deal with their pasts.



I really enjoyed learning about Alice, Lauren, and Knox’s histories. While they all intertwine, some more than others, they each have their own thing going on. They each have their own reason for why the B&B was left to them. From the synopsis, I knew that none of them would leave town before the B&B was renovated, but I wondered about how much pain it would cause them and how it they would heal.



The pasts collide, the present helps them heal, and all three characters find a future that gives them their own HEA. Jill Shalvis is a must-read author for me and I cannot wait for more of the Sunrise Cove series.

Can we get a book about Lauren and Ben because they are adorable!
Shalvis always creates a beautiful world I just want to jump into and experience, this book is no different.

I always love Jill Shalvis. She manages to keep the perfect amount of swoony love seasons with an interesting plot!

I wasn't sure I would be able to read this book. I started and stopped 3 times. But I persevered and I am so glad I did. Alice, Knox and Lauren made a wonderful trio. Alot of soul searching with a lot of humor and finally romance. Read this book!

One of the best books this year! It has real struggles and shows how friends can really help you cope with the past. Sometimes the past is not as it seems. Wish I could give it 10 stars.

When Eleanor passes away she leaves her Inn in Sunrise Cove to her three favorite people, Alice, Lauren and Knox. Each of them have affected her life in some way. When they all come together to fix up The Old Wild West Last Chance Inn to prepare for visitors, once again their time together brings up old memories good and bad. They all discover facts about each other they never knew.

This was book three in the Sunrise Cove series, I didn't read the first two, but I plan on it. I really liked THE BACKUP PLAN. Jill Shalvis is a great story teller!! I loved the emails written at the beginning of the chapters by Eleanor and how each character grew by the end of the story. Of course there was some romance added in to make it a perfect read. I highly recommend adding this to your reading list.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for my ARC in exchange for my honest review

This review will be posted on my Instagram (@coffee.break.book.reviews) in the near future.

What do you do, when your mistakes messed up peoples lives and you want to make amends, why you gift those people an Inn and give them clues that showed them what actually happened and allow them to heal. Alice, Knox and Lauren have been running from their past, thinking it was some flaw in them that created their sadness, but while renovating an Inn gifted to them by Eleanor Graham, they find secrets and letters that talk about those faithful days that made them run from the past. Each letter they read together helps them face those nightmares and allow them to heal and in the process become closer to each other. The letters also allowed them to understand that everyone has flaws and that there's always another point of view, and that it's ok to open up to one another and forgive. When you face the monster, it usually goes away.

I found I liked Knox the best since he was more down to earth character and of course he had a dog. I liked that he tried to help Alice and Lauren with the question they were to scared to face and he was there when they were vulnerable. I also like as the monsters were revealed to them that there was someone there to help each character face the monster and help them move on or not be so afraid of the past. I love the list that was suppose to give them directions on what to do next in the Inn and in the end it kept changing as the relationships changed and questions were answered, I found it funny.

Finally, I like that this is a very grownup story about life and not just happily ever after story which gets all gushy.

I want to thank Avon and Harper Voyager, Avon and NetGalley for an advance copy of this story.

This was a cute story about three people coming together to heal from shared trauma. Throw in a crazy dog named Pickles and a cranky old lady meddling beyond the grave and you’ve got The Backup Plan. The cover and the synopsis made it sound like a romance, but it was more family drama to me.

I enjoyed the two female characters, Lauren and Alice. They were written honestly with flaws and all and I found them very interesting and believable. The male character, Knox, on the other hand seemed eye-rollingly too good to be true: handsome, do-gooder, manly yet sensitive, construction worker, but wait, he owns the company. Oh, and he’s rich (of course). It would have felt more balanced if he’d had a few screws loose as well or if we could’ve been rid of him altogether and just focused on the mending of the relationship between Lauren and Alice.

Thank you to Avon and Harper Voyager and Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

When Knox, Alice and Lauren inherit the rundown Wild West Inn they are left with no choice but to work together. That wouldn't be so bad if Alice and Lauren weren't ex best friends and Knox wasn't the crush that Alice had all through high school. But with loads of laughs and a few poignant moments the three end up in a better place than when they started. But what will happen to the friendship and the romance when the Inn is complete? Will they walk away or have they found a new future ahead of them? This is a book that is all about change. Changing your mindset, changing your interpretations and changing your outcome. There is nothing better than surrounding yourself with those who not only love you but understand and appreciate you as well.

Mein Leseerlebnis

Da sich die Geschichte interssant und frisch angehört hat, habe ich mich auf das Lesen des Liebesromans sehr gefreut.

Beim Lesen gefiel mir der Einstieg in die Geschichte dann auch gut. Es war spannend die drei Hauptcharaktere kennenzulernen und nach und nach zu erfahren, in welchem Verhältnis sie standen.

Beim Lesen tat ich mich allerdings überraschend schwer damit, zu den eigentlich interessanten Charakteren eine gute Beziehung aufzubauen. Ich ging zunächst davon aus, dass das im Verlauf des Romans schon noch geschehen würde.

Nach dem achten Kapitel oder so wurde mir aber so langsam klar, dass es dazu nicht kommen würde. Ich war beim Lesen emotional nur mäßig involviert, da ich die Charaktere leider nicht ins Herz schließen konnte. Egal was passierte, nichts kam so richtig an mich heran.

Ich habe der Geschichte danach noch ein paar Kapitel eine Chance gegeben und bin anschließend zum Ende gesprungen. Auch dieses konnte mich nicht emotional mitreißen.

So ähnlich erging es mir übrigens vor ein paar Monaten auch mit einem anderen Roman der Autorin. Daran muss ich das nächste Mal, wenn ich bei einem ihrer neuen Bücher zugreifen will, unbedingt denken. - keine Bewertung, da abgebrochen -

Für wen?

Wer die letzten Romane der Autorin mochte und generell Liebesromane mag, die sich eher langsam entwickeln, in denen es mehr als eine Liebesgeschichte gibt und in denen Freundschaften eine wichtige Rolle spielen, sollte sich das Buch und die Reihe mal näher anschauen.

The Backup Plan by Jill Shalvis Hard for me to get into the story and had trouble connecting with Alice, Lauren and Knox . A story of friendship, love, and moving on which Ms Shilvas fans are sure to enjoy

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book.

The Backup Plan by Jill Shalvis is book 3 in the Sunrise Cove Series. I loved this book🥰. Knox, Alice, and Lauren have together inherited an old Inn and have to work on it together. Such a heartwarming story with all the feels. I couldn’t put it down. I really enjoyed the banter between all of them as they grow closer as friends. I love how Knox and Alice are together. I think they might be one of my favorite couples. Lauren is the one that made me laugh. I very much recommend this book and books 1 and 2 as well. Definitely gonna reread! 🥰🥰

I have loved this series and this book is no different. I love that Jill spent time focusing on character development and worked with the characters troubled pasts. This novel is good and a great addition to the series. Pickles was also a cute addition in the book! Thank you NetGalley and Harper Voyage and Avon for this ARC.