The message I took away from this story is to 'Take A Chance'. Both main characters are doing okay in their lives but are getting pushed out of their comfort zone. As with all Sophie Sullivan books, I find the story to be a lot of fun! The main characters are both likable and relatable. The rest of the cast add depth to the story. I loved the way Beck and Presley seemed to fit so well together. The book is the perfect story to curl up with and lose yourself in the story. I received an advance copy from NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review.

I want to start by saying that I'm a huge fan of Sophie Sullivan. I loved her Jansen brothers books. I particularly appreciate the care and small details that she puts into her characters making them feel so real and relatable. Her books have been my go-tos for feel good romances. Unfortunately, I've struggled with this one and decided at the 45% mark to put it down for now and come back to it another time.

Initially, I was HOOKED. I was drawn in by the fact that Presley had a current boyfriend, so I knew something was going to happen where they would break up, so I was interested to see how that went. And let me tell you, that guy was something else. I was so proud of Presley for knowing her worth. When I got to Beckett’s POV, I could tell that he was a nice, family guy and I was going to love his character as well.

Insta-love is always hit or miss for me and it was not working here. When I first read that Presley's trip would be 10 days, I was instantly nervous. It's so hard to believe a love story that happens over 10 days. While I absolutely loved both Presley and Beckett, the slow pacing and knowing that it would be insta-love made it hard for me to want to pick up this book. But, I think it's just my mood at the moment. I think this would be a fun, spring/summer read.

I'm going to give it a rating of 4 stars. Overall, I think it will be a popular read and a fun story. It just isn't working for me at the moment.

Hotel concierge and small-time travel influencer Presley books a vacation to a wilderness lodge with her boyfriend (WAY outside her comfort zone) but ends up going alone after he breaks up with her. Whether she’s proving something to herself or to her ex, she’s not sure but Presley is determined to make the most of it and experience new things. Beckett has been helping his siblings transform the Get Lost Lodge into a semi-respectable Michigan travel destination but it’s slow going. Time and money constrain them and when Presley shows up as one of the few guests, her experience in the industry shows them what more they could be doing for their new business. Beckett and Presley find themselves drawn to each other through circumstances around the lodge and as they grow closer, they both realize her short vacation may end up having long term consequences…like love.
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I was completely charmed by this book. It was sweet, gave nostalgic summer vacation vibes, homey, and had a strong found family trope that I loved. Quick timeline (her vacation was 10 days) but it still didn’t feel rushed.

Presley didn’t appeal to me at first, but I quickly warmed up to her. City girl but not fussy or prissy or helpless to the outdoors and elements. Smart, hardworking and helpful. Beckett was charming and kind. The kind of male character you knew fairly soon into the book was going to make you fall in love with him.

Overall this book was a comfort read. Full of community love. Small town coziness. Guests that feel like family. A simple but really delightful love story. Not a lot of bells and whistles or drama, but a good ol’ love story.

Tropes- Closed door romance, forced proximity, vacation romance, social media influencer, opposites attract, found family

Presley is a supremely competent concierge at a boutique hotel who’s greatly under appreciated by her direct supervisor. She’s booked a surprise ten day fishing vacation for her boyfriend’s birthday, only he would’ve preferred to go with the guys instead of with her. Indignant and hurt, she ends their sham relationship and decides to go solo on the vacation she never would’ve booked for herself.
En route to the property, Presley encounters a delicious outdoor god named Beckett, who happens to be a member of the family who own the lodge and cabins. Thrown together on excursions for which Presley is ill-suited, she and Beckett become unable to deny their mutual attraction.
This was a well written, funny and sexy story that I devoured and enjoyed from beginning to end.
I was generously provided an advance reader copy from the author and netgalley, and I’m pleased to share my honest review.

Presley has designed the perfect getaway for her boyfriend, only problem is Emmett would rather go with someone else than her. In an epic break-up scene (one of my favorites), Presley decides to take the trip herself. She embarks on a 10 day trip to a lodge aptly named Get Lost. We’re quickly introduced to the charming family running the lodge, including Beckett, the fix-it brother who is immediately drawn to Presley.

As they fall for each other and the vacation comes to a close, they have to decide if the vision they had for themselves before their time together is really what they want after all.

Beckett’s family is wonderfully flushed out character-wise and the town very charming. Outside of the super fast timeline (which is a given), the only part I struggled with was the grand gesture. Without giving too much away, there was a back-up plan but because it was also partially implemented, it didn’t allow the first plan to stand on its own and felt like too much. Either one would have been excellent so focusing on only one would have strengthened the ending in my opinion.

This story made me want to fall in love again! Sophie Sullivan wove such a beautifully sweet story together with what I am convinced is magic. Presley and Beckett’s journey had so much heart and healing without being redundant or impossible to believe. The supporting characters were so charming that I want to pack my bags and move to Smile.

A sweet book about Presley taking a trip totally out of her element and discovering lots of things about herself. Presley has been working towards her list of life goals without really considering if she's enjoying life right now. When she gets to the Get Lost Lodge, the trip seems like it might be a total waste but quickly improves.
Beckett has been dreaming of things he wants to do, but his sense of obligation to his family is holding him back. He and Presley decide to give each other a week together, and it's just what they each needed to get out of their ruts.
I loved the characters - Beckett's family running the lodge, the other guests, and the townspeople. I will say Presley read a bit younger for me than 31. This is a closed door romance with a HEA.

Ok, this book was so refreshing and SWEET with a dreamy lakeside destination setting in upper peninsula Michigan. Imagine being at your lowest, just dumped and having to take a fishing trip at a nature lodge SOLO that you only booked for your jerk ex-boyfriend. And then…. You step off the boat with the assistance of a dreamy lumbersexual man with abs, forearms, and the emotional intelligence of a saint who then offers up his lakeside cabin to you at his family’s resort (when your room has a repair issue), sleeps on your couch, and then makes you waffles the next morning.

Talk about a life 180!! Presley is way out of her comfort zone at the Get Lost lodge, but her unexpected collision with Beckett and his family might be the change of plans they both needed at their early 30’s cross-road in life. This is hands down the opposites attract, fish out of water, dual POV, instant attraction but off-limits romance book you NEED to read this year. There are renovation projects, hiking lessons, viral TikToks, family s’mores, only one bed AND hot tub, and found family vibes for days. This is a setting and cast of characters that fees like home; I wanted to jump into this novel, hang out at the lodge’s infamous family style meals, and try something new.

The only complaint I have was the steam was fade to black, and I would have preferred to rip the screen door right off the frame since the banter and tension was so GOOD! Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan audio for my advanced copies in exchange for my review. I listened to the audiobook while reading along with my digital copy and it was an amazing experience.

I will be feature this book on my socials on pub week!

Thank you netgalley for sending me this ARC.

Unfortunately this book was not for me. I did not enjoy the writing. The characters felt cringey, the pacing was weird, and ultimately I just didn’t like Presley as the fmc.

This is a closed door, insta-love romance. Presley dumps her shitty boyfriend and goes on the vacation she planned for him.

1 star.

Title: Love, Naturally
Author: Sophie Sullivan
Length: 320 pages
Format: ebook arc
Pub Date: January 16, 2024
Genre: Contemporary Romance, ChickLit, Rom Com
Rating Out of 5: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Spice Level: closed-door
This was such a sweet and swoony love story!! Presley + Hot Mountain Man 4 ever! I loved alllllll (not you Emmett) the characters. I loved the major sound family theme of this book too. Not only do we fall in love with Presley and Beckett, but we fall in love with an entire family. An entire town. I’d love to try Presley’s French toast and Pete’s waffles. I’d love to roast marshmallows with Ollie and go biking through hidden trails and look at the stars above and the lake below. I’d love to #getlost!

Read if you love:
Small towns
Found family
Opposites attract
Super mild third act breakups

Special thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for the arc in exchange for my honest review!

I loved how it started. Beckett is a great MMC and I loved the setting of the rustic resort. Was super cute and a lot of fun!

“I feel like you’re the first thing I’ve been sure about in forever.”

If that quote doesn’t make you swoon like I did, I don’t know what to tell you! Love, Naturally was a really fun read - Presley is a city girl who decides to book a surprise ten day vacation to take with her boyfriend for his birthday present. These two have never traveled together, so this idea seemed a bit much to me. But Presley does book a trip where he can hike and fish, things he has mentioned he likes to do but she has never seen him do. Instead of taking the trip together, he breaks up with her - but Presley decides to spend the ten days there on her own instead, even though she is *not* a nature girly. While there, she meets Beckett, the brother of the lodge’s owner, and she is instantly smitten.
As Presley and Beckett get to know each other, they play a card game where, based on the card drawn, one gets to ask the other a question. One of Beckett’s questions, in particular, would be a fun way to get to know more about someone, just like it was a fun way for him to learn about Presley. “If someone were to plan a trip for you, what would be your ideal?” For me, I would want it to be somewhere WARM where I could do some hiking and try some new food and drinks but there would also be plenty of time to relax and read. I’m pretty much describing my recent trips, both my trip last April to St John and the Banff/Jasper trip I took last August! It also is pretty similar to a visit to Get Lost Lodge, the setting of this book.
The setting made me want to book my own trip to Get Lost, and I also loved the found family aspect of the plot. I hope we get future stories for Beckett’s siblings, Grayson and Jilly. Thank you to SMP for the ARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion. I’ve read two of Sophie Sullivan’s previous books and I liked this one just as much! For a moment, when I was getting close to the ending, I got worried it had been mislabeled as Romance and there might not be an HEA but - phew - crisis averted. This will be available next Tuesday, and I definitely recommend checking it out!

I have really enjoyed Sophie Sullivan's previous books. This plot seemed to build much slower than the others, but I still enjoyed it.

This was such a fun and delightful read! I bounced back and forth between the physical and audio version, and I truly loved the writing, and the narrator did a fantastic job.

I’ve become a big fan of Sullivan’s stories, and this one was no exception. I loved watching Presley come into her own and branching out throughout the story, and the whole cast of side characters just made the whole book. Such an idealistic sounding town and lodge, so much so, the descriptions made me want to physically be there and experiencing it all myself.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martins Press for my ARC, and Macmillan Audio for my ALC, in exchange for my honest feedback. I enjoyed every second!

Presley Ayers & Beckett Keller are about as different from each other as a fish and a bird. That doesn't stop both of them being bitten by the same love bug on day one!
Presley decides to take the 2 week vacation that she'd set up for her boyfriend when he refuses to go. Beckett is helping his siblings run, update and fix up their vacation lodge for people who love the outdoors. Presley's idea of enjoying the outdoors is a pool or a hot tub. Thing is that because Presley is an amazing PR person who knows how to set up anything and the Kellers are in desperate need of that, this relationship is happening whether Presley and Beckett want it or not!
This was a thoroughly charming book that you will love to read!

4.5/5 stars

This was a super sweet read with lots of adorable characters. I loved the found family and unique community. Made you want to be there! I highly recommend for fans of closed door/fade-to-black readers.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to review this very sweet romance!
Presley is a city girl through and through who decides to take her boyfriend Emmett of eight months on a wonderful vacation that screams his interests as a surprise birthday trip, only to be heartbroken that he doesn't want to go on the vacation with her and go with someone else. Out of spite she takes this wonderful vacation herself. The only problem is....she is not at all a nature lover, or lover of outdoors. Sounds like it might be ten days of hanging out in her lodge accommodations with some Netflix, right? But then she meets Beckett, and EVERYTHING changes.
Beckett is rugged, handsome, and a total outdoorsy type. The connection between these two is instant. By chance, and because their personalities gel so well together, Presley gets drawn into Beckett's life, along with his close-knit family and close-lit community, the city of Smile, and discovers a whole different life of what it could be versus what she thinks she wants for herself.
In many ways, Beckett is opposite. While Presley thrives on change, her big city life, and going where the wind takes her, Beckett loves his routine, his roots, and not taking chances out of fear of failure. This holds him back as he finds himself torn between pursuing his own dream of opening his own bike shop, or helping his brother Grayson achieve his dreams by making the Get Lost Lodge a success.
So many themes to ponder on, how people have a mapped out plan for their lives versus taking a chance that may or may not work out. Both Presley and Beckett are on a track to success for their own careers, however, things are complicated when during the course of ten days, they fall in love with each other. The problem? Their relationship as a time-limit, and their paths are not meant to stay on the same page without one or the other making a major sacrifice. Beckett and Presley both go through transformations because of each that cannot be denied. Beckett is more willing to step out of his comfort zone and decide what's good for him alone, while Presley discovers what it's like to be loved and cherished, and not feeling like she has to settle.
The beginning of the book started off strong and had me hooked, while the ending was perfection.
So why just four stars?
For one, somewhere in the middle, the book meandered quite a bit. I get that it's a small town romance, where the town itself is a character, but there were times when the story focuses too much on the side characters and their stories to the point where it got kind of boring. I've read other books before with the small town character, and it managed to do it better than this one. However, the ending left me a pile of mush and was simply perfection, so it got four stars.

My sincere thanks to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read Love, Naturally and I give my unbiased opinion of it in the following short review.

Love, Naturally by Sophie Sullivan follows Presley and Beckett. The story begins with Presley gifting her boyfriend with a getaway trip to an adventure resort in northern Michigan. When he asks if he can take one of his buddies along instead of her, she is at first shocked and then livid. She takes off with the tickets and goes on the trip by herself. On the ferry over to the lodge she makes her first impression on Beckett by showing her non-sea legs. He is brother to the owner of the lodge and is on his way to help with some repairs there. When Presley's room has a malfunction with the thermostat making it feel like the Antarctic, Beckett volunteers his cabin for her to stay in. She can have his room and he'll take the couch. Forced proximity at its finest. Presley makes a post for social media that accidentally catches Beckett in the background stretching and giving a flash of his abs. The post goes viral, and the lodge starts getting a lot of publicity. They need it because they are trying to make ends meet, but Beckett is not so thrilled with the notoriety. Since this is a romance, it is not hard to see where this story is headed. It screams Hallmark movie vibes and was pretty adorable, especially where Beckett is concerned. I enjoyed the story for the most part even though it was far too insta-love for my taste. I liked the easy flow of the writing. The supporting characters were fun, especially Ollie the young niece of Beckett. I see future stories for both Beckett's brother Gray and sister Jilly. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a good mushy romance without a ton of angst.

Closed Door; Very Mild Course Language

This was a cute story, but it felt a bit slow to me at times. Overall, I liked this book and really enjoyed the setting and the side characters so I think this has to potential to be a series that will be very enjoyable!

A huge thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Presley is a concierge at a boutique hotel and has used her connections to arrange a surprise fishing trip for her boyfriend at a lodge on a small island in Lake Michigan even though it is not her thing. When he says that he cannot see going away with her for ten days, she decides to go by herself. Alone the way she learns things about herself and falls in love with the family and guests at the lodge. This is a wonderful story about growth and finding a family.