3 Stars
Beloved romance
author Margot Bradley has a dark secret: she doesn’t believe in Happily Ever
Afters. Not for herself, not for her readers, and not even for her characters,
for whom she secretly writes alternate endings that swap weddings and babies
for divorce papers and the occasional slashed tire. When her Happily Never
After document is hacked and released to the public, she finds herself canceled
by her readers and dropped by her publisher.
Desperate to find a
way to continue supporting her chronically ill sister, Savannah, Margot decides
to trade meet-cutes for murder. The fictional kind. Probably. But when Savannah
books Margot a six-week stay in a remote Alaskan resort to pen her first murder
mystery, Margot finds herself running from a moose and leaping into the arms of
the handsome proprietor, making her fear she’s just landed in a romance novel
instead.
The last thing Dr.
Forrest Wakefield ever expected was to leave his dream job as a cancer
researcher to become a glorified bellhop. What he’s really doing at his
family’s resort is caring for his stubborn, ailing father, and his
puzzle-loving mind is slowly freezing over—until Margot shows up. But Forrest
doesn’t have any room in his life for another person he could lose, especially
one with a checkout date.
As long snowy nights
and one unlikely trope after another draw Margot and Forrest together, they’ll
each have to learn to overcome their fears and set their aside assumptions
before Margot leaves—or risk becoming a Happily Never After story themselves.
The story was just
ok. Margot was irritating throughout the book. It was a standard romance
without any surprises. And as the title says about any trope there were a
bunch. Way too much and it bogged down the story.
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