Day 22 – 30 Day Reading Challenge – You, with a View – Book Review

Two weeks on the road… stuck in a car with your high-school enemy.

Noelle Shepard is grieving the loss of her beloved grandmother when she discovers decades-old photos and letters that hint to a forbidden love in her gram’s past. Needing to know the full story, she creates a TikTok video appealing for information – and it goes viral.

Through her video, she manages to track down her grandmother’s secret love, Paul, who offers to take her on the honeymoon road-trip he and Gram planned but never got to go on.

Noelle jumps at the chance to make this one last connection with her grandmother. There’s just one problem – Paul’s grandson is Noelle’s frustratingly handsome high-school rival Theo.

And Theo has to come, too.

It’s only two weeks. Surely Noelle can survive that long? But with one car between them – and often only one bed – it doesn’t take long for things to heat up…

I have seen so many raving reviews on this book and so I bought this book to see what is the hype about in this book.

I actually enjoyed reading this book.

Noelle Shepherd while going through her grandmother’s belongings discovers a photo of her grandmother during her young days with another man named Paul. Curious, Noelle posted the picture on Tiktok and eventually got a chance to meet Paul. But Paul is the grandfather of none other than her high school nemesis, Theo Spencer. Packed with her grandmother’s love letters to Paul and deciding to go on a two week road trip, Noelle has no choice but drive with Theo and Paul to a lifetime experience.

The story is told mainly from Noelle’s POV. Even though I am not much of a romance fiction type, I surprisingly enjoyed reading this book. I can as a reader feel the chemistry between Noelle and Theo and I also felt while reading this book that I was also going on a road trip with Noelle, Theo and Paul. There were some spicy scenes in the book as well. But besides romance, there is grief that is talked about mostly in the book–Noelle’s grief of losing her grandmother, who was more like her best confidante, Noelle’s issue being jobless and Theo’s stress at work, all beautifully written in this book. Plus, I really loved the front cover so it was a plus sign for me.

If you are looking for an adventurous road trip romance, then I recommend this book to you. This is the debut book of Jessica Joyce and so I cannot wait to read more books from her in future! Worth 4.5 stars.