Maybe this title was just not for me right now. Loved the Out on a Limb so maybe I just had it too hyped up in my mind. It was cute, but I just don't think I was in the headspace for this title.

Hannah Bonam-Young has a magical ability to write complex, realistic, and flawed characters that tells the most devour-able stories. I adored Out of the Woods and in particular enjoyed following a story where a married couple are experiencing challenges mid-marriage rather than getting together for the first time.

This book ended up better than I thought it would! The premise is interesting, since it’s an established couple. Working through some of their issues seemed tedious, but I liked them as characters. And always happy when the fmc finds her voice.

Hannah Bonam Young has a gift of bringing a fresh & unique perspective to the romance genre with their fantastically realistic characters that is bolstered with humor & heart to create easy to fall for romances.

Out of the Woods is great for those looking to read…
💚 Married Couple Reconciling & Reconnecting
💚 High School Sweethearts
💚 Hiking Trip of Errors
💚 Forced Proximity
💚 Spicy Romance

I’ve read & enjoyed everything I’ve read from this author. I am so excited to read what they write next. If you haven’t read a Hannah Bonam Young novel yet, I highly recommend reading them ASAP!

Massive thanks to NetGalley & Dell for the gifted copy, which I voluntarily read & reviewed.

From the beginning I was rooting for the characters. The book was so deep it put me in all the feels because working through relationships, we’ve all been there. To see the growth in finding themselves as individuals all over again but figure it out together. I loved it.

Hannah Bonam-Young = absolutely brilliant! She did it again. I swear she could write the back ads in the newspaper and I would be a fan. What a beautiful romance novel with depth, meaning, and incredible character development. She's an auto-buy author and I can't wait to see what she writes next!

One thing about me: i LOVE HBY. Absolutely adore her work. That being said, this is the best one yet. I have never related to a character more than i have Sarah. I haven’t read many, if any at all, stories about an already married couple. This was SO unbelievably spot on. I was only 20 when my husband and I got married, and I have felt every single emotion Sarah mentioned in this book. Every single one of them.

Thank you, Hannah, for your absolute masterpiece of a novel. Thank you, NetGalley for the opportunity to read the e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

“You’re insane if you think you’ve ever lost it,” I say, placing my hand over his. “All of me is and will always be yours.”

Sarah and Caleb. She’s in a crisis with her life and marriage, questioning who she is and not being sure about her future, so she suggests going on a wilderness retreat to help their marriage and themselves.

Hannah’s writing is so beautiful and there were moments where I was tearing up multiples times while reading. I loved that Sarah and Caleb were able to communicate better and still had the same love for each other since they were in high school!

🌲READ IF YOU LIKE🌲:
- high school sweethearts
- marriage in crisis
- reader girl x geeky boy
- flashbacks
- wilderness retreat: camping & hiking
- forced proximity
- acts of service
- self-discovery

cw: death of parent from ALS, mention of accidents

Thank you @dellromance and @netgalley for the advanced copy! Out of the Woods is now available!

Her writing style is enough to get me hooked into this one just like the previous book. I liked Sarah and Caleb as well developed characters and how their personalities develop over time along with the book. It is always feel good to see couple in marriage trouble find their way together after re-igniting their relationship. As a non-outdoor person, it was fun to read the comedy when they go for outdoorsy couples retreat. It gets emotional at times, within short span there are fun moments as well all interweaved beautifully.

I absolutely adore many books Hannah Bonam-Young has written, Out on a limb is still my favorite of hers but this one is a book you can read in one sitting and still fell all the greatness of her writing

Hannah has done it again! How can I be laughing anf crying all within a few pages of each other?! Sarah and Caleb are such well written characters. So nuanced and real. You could pluck them off the page and place them in your life. I love the way Sarah and Caleb's journey plays out before us. WWe have these beautifully flawed characters just trying to love each other as they navigate the very real path of what it means to grow up together while being in a relationship. I also LOVED getting to see Win and Bo from Out On a Limb in this book too. I missed them. Hannah is amazing. I will read everything she writes. Instant buy author for sure!

I love Hannah Bonam-Young's writing style, so I knew that she'd quickly become an auto-buy author for me after reading OUT ON A LIMB. OUT OF THE WOODS, her latest novel, was just as good! Once again we have a unique premise (this time, a marriage in trouble), and Bonam-Young delivers an incredible romance full of depth and realistic characters. Highly recommend!

This was such an amazing read. It was so darn cute. It was deeply emotional with beautiful characters and a great storyline. Hannah's writing is so easy to follow and just addictive.

Not my favorite HBY book.

Would have benefitted from being a) dual POV or b) a lot more intense pining. When I think of marriage in crisis, I think of aching, yearning, pining for the other person. This was... not that.

I don't know what else to say... I'll still be reading HBY in the future but this was a miss for me.

One of the best books I’ve ever read. OOTW was heartwarming and thought provoking. This book spoke to all of the softest parts of me and it will stay with me long after I read the last page

HBY!! What a book. I loved this so much. 😭😍

I have said before that writing second chance or rather marriage on the rocks is not an easy task. You have to show the build up of what made them fall in-love in the first place, so you root for them throughout the book. I loved that HBY gave us Caleb and Sarah’s beginning because it just really made the story more impactful as they went on this journey to reignite their relationship.

This beautiful book will have you feeling all the emotions.

I will see HBY at two bookish events later this year and I can’t to just be like THANK YOU for this beauty of a book.

Disclaimer: I was given an arc of this book, all opinions are my own!

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publishing Company for this Advanced Readers Copy of Out of the Woods by Hannah Bonam-Young!

4.5/5

I would categorize this more as a love story (without a tragic ending), than a romance novel. First off, I love the premise of this book (second chance married couple rediscovering their love and growing together). Though it didn’t too book #1, I genuinely loved the topic and how beautifully written this story was. It feels so honest and real.

As always, Sarah is a hoot and genuinely so funny. Caleb is just a darling sweetheart. I loved getting to see Bo and Win again as well. A great bow on this little book duo.

Hannah Bonam-Young has an uncanny ability to make me like tropes that I usually stay away from. I thought I hated unexpected pregnancy and then I read Out on a Limb and I thought I hated marriage in trouble until I read Out of the Woods.

HBY’s characters always feel so lifelike and are so well developed it’s incredibly easy to laugh and cry along with them. I loved Out of the Woods, while I would have never picked it up if Hannah hadn’t written it I found myself enamored with the characters and their real life problem solving and communication. A absolutely beautiful story with some funny moments along the way.

Thank you to Dell Romance and NetGalley for the advanced reader’s copy!

I fell in love with Hannah Bonam-Young’s books last year when I finally read Out on a Limb. That book was truly one of the most special stories I’ve ever read and ended up being one of my favorite reads of 2024. I adored Win and Bo, so as soon as I saw that Out of the Woods was set in the same world, I knew I had to read it as soon as possible!

Out of the Woods tells the story of Win’s best friend Sarah and her husband, Caleb, and it is a marriage in crisis story. Sarah and Caleb were high school sweethearts who married at a very young age, perhaps too young, but they wanted Sarah’s mom, who had ALS and limited time left, to be at their wedding. Years later, we meet them and while all may appear fine to outsiders, it’s clear that Sarah is no longer happy with her life or her marriage. She doesn’t want to leave Caleb, but something has to give. Win suggests a wilderness camping retreat for couple, and Sarah convinces Caleb that they need to go on this retreat and try to get their relationship back on track.

I can’t even express how much I loved this book! The trip itself is incredible as it becomes a personal journey of self discovery for both Caleb and Sarah and a chance for them to reconnect as the soulmates it’s clear that they are. I also just adored the author’s use of flashbacks to show Sarah and Caleb back in the early days of their relationship and especially the scenes with Sarah’s mom in them. As someone who has been married for many years and has seen plenty of ups and downs, everything Sarah was feeling really resonated with me, as did Caleb’s frustration that he didn’t really realize there was a problem until it became a crisis.