Rating: 4
Steam: 3
PoV: dual, 1st person
Series: Swallow Cove #3
Genre: contemporary romance, MM
Tropes / tags: forced proximity, sexual discovery, small town
I went through the motions everyone else did. But where they found happiness, I couldn’t get past the feeling that I was missing something.
Something everyone else found.
Something right under my nose but also impossibly out of reach.
I’m growing really fond of this found family, and Knockin’ Boats was a sweet addition to the Swallow Cove series!
Ash and Sawyer had a lot of history between them, from childhood best friends to rivals with having quite a bit of animosity going on. When they end up working at the same resort and in close proximity, they soon realise that the line between hate and love is thin – and that sometimes the best way to get someone to shut up is to kiss them…
They definitely had some hot chemistry going on, and there were a lot of feelings coming to the surface considering their history. Neither of them had been with a guy before, so they had some things to process and come to terms with once they acknowledged the attraction between them. Their romance was overall sweet and low angst though, and I liked how there were some lowkey jealousy and possessiveness going on.
Knockin’ Boats was a sweet and entertaining read, with characters that might have been crushing on each other for quite a long time without realising it. I liked their relationship development and how the friend group quickly adopted Ash into their little found family. I can’t wait to go back to Swallow Cove for Cash and Declan’s story, I’m very intrigued about those two and whatever is going on between them!
I’d barely had time to wrap my head around not hating Ash. I didn’t know what the fuck to do with him in my bed first thing in the morning. Talk about awkward.
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