My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: The Suite Spot (Beck Sisters, #2)
Author: Trish Doller
Format: ebook (borrowed)
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 3/8/22
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Categories: Romance, Women’s Fiction
Trish Doller’s The Suite Spot is a charming romance novel about taking a chance on a new life and a new love.
Rachel Beck has hit a brick wall. She’s a single mom, still living at home and trying to keep a dying relationship alive. Aside from her daughter, the one bright light in Rachel’s life is her job as the night reservations manager at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach—until the night she is fired for something she didn’t do.
On impulse, Rachel inquires about a management position at a brewery hotel on an island in Lake Erie called Kelleys Island. When she’s offered the job, Rachel packs up her daughter and makes the cross country move.
What she finds on Kelleys Island is Mason, a handsome, moody man who knows everything about brewing beer and nothing about running a hotel. Especially one that’s barely more than foundation and studs. It’s not the job Rachel was looking for, but Mason offers her a chance to help build a hotel—and rebuild her own life—from the ground up.
Content Warning: grief, sexual harassment, sexual assault
I didn’t realize when I was borrowing this that this was the same author that wrote Float Plan. I enjoyed that book and was curious to see that The Suite Spot was about Anna’s sister, Rachel.
+ I love how we get to know Rachel and Mason because they both come with baggage but they give one another the space needed before trying to get together. It was refreshing to see two adults trying something scary like making their dreams come true: owning a hotel/inn, and meeting someone they could fall in love with. And there wasn’t a lot of drama involved.
+ I think it’s wonderful how Rachel moved to a new place and found it welcoming, I was really invested in her life. She makes new friends, while in her own family – there are lots of changes: her mom moving and her sister living on a boat with her new love. So I like that she found stability even with so many changes going on in her life. It’s a very heart warming story, especially in the end where everyone comes together!
+ This is such a slow burn. Mason is Rachel’s boss but really at this point it’s just 2 of them in the “company”. We see how they work as a team to get Mason’s vision for the brewery/inn off the ground and they really do work well together. From there the attraction grows but their sexy times are fade to black and mild at best. As I mentioned they both have baggage – Mason dealing with a divorce and grieving a child. Rachel dealing with being a single mom and Maisie’s dad who is in and out of their lives.
~ The slow burn showed how sweet they were with one another which I did love but I also wish there were more hot scenes between them. I felt like it would have made the story even more amazing.
~ There is a conflict that comes at the end but it is easily resolved. I felt like it was a little bit rushed?
Tropes: single mom, one house, small town/island, slow burn, workplace romance
Spice Level: 🌶
Why you should read it:
- If you liked Float Plan, then this is your chance to hear Rachel’s story (Anna’s sister)
- it’s a nice slow burn, with 2 adults that didn’t have a lot of drama, gave each other time, space and patience
- I loved the small town environment and Mason’s history there – it was sweet to know new memories were being made in an old place.
Why you might not want to read it:
- ending a bit rushed and everything seemed perfectly tied up in a neat bow
- wanted more heat between Rachel and Mason
My Thoughts:
Despite the little issues I mentioned, I thoroughly enjoyed this because it left me happy at the end of the story. I look forward to reading more from this author!
📚 ~ Yolanda
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