The Suite Spot ⭑⭑⭑⭑
Genre: Romance
US Publication: March 8, 2022
Print: 288 pages
Audio: 7 hours 42 minutes
Confetti Rating: 4 stars
REVIEW:
It’s Q&A time!
Q: What’s this romance about?
A: Rachel, a 28-year-old single mom from Miami, loses her job as a boutique hotel concierge and moves to a tiny Lake Erie island in Ohio to help a stranger open a brewery-themed glamping hotel. Naturally the stranger is a moody, handsome, sorta-available man with a past.
Q: Since The Suite Spot is noted as “Beck Sisters #2,” do you have to read “Beck Sisters #1,” Float Plan, first?
A: Nope! I have read Float Plan (and recommend it), but this is truly Rachel’s story and therefore functions as a stand-alone.
Q: Is it any good?
A: It’s truly enjoyable! Rachel is a character that’s easy to root for, and the writing is very engaging. I never lost interest and sailed quickly through the entire thing in a day.
Q: What’s the steam level?
A: Medium-low. There are adult situations, but they’re PG-13-ish.
Q: How’s the audiobook?
A: I loved it! Narrator Sarah Naughton does an excellent job voicing all the characters and accents. She even manages to pull off a toddler without being annoying.
Q: So why not 5 stars?
A: The entire plot-line regarding the opening of the brewery/hotel is utterly unbelievable. Like really eye-roll-worthy. Also, a male boss shagging his female employee doesn’t feel all that comfortable in this day and age. Workplace romances are gonna happen, but there will always be a little ickiness when the objects of affection are a superior and subordinate. Eww.
My thanks to the author and Macmillan Audio for the gifted review copy.
PUBLISHER SYNOPSIS:
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.