Hearts Overboard

After a very public breakup during which her ex, Caleb, tells her she is both (a) boring and (b) stuck in her ways, Savannah Moore decides that going with her mom on her company cruise to Alaska presents the perfect opportunity to show people how fun she is. It won’t be easy, though. Her longtime nemesis, Tanner Woods, is also on the ship. His family and Savannah's are friends, and Tanner knows her better than she’d like to admit. When he learns of her plan, Tanner wants to help, and he encourages her to try everything: zip-lining and dogsledding, hiking the bear-infested Alaskan wilderness, singing late night karaoke, and taking a polar plunge. That’ll show Caleb just what he’s missing. Except after spending so much time with Tanner, Savannah’s not sure Caleb is the one she wants anymore... Ich hatte mal wieder Lust ein englisches Buch zu lesen. Gesagt, getan ☺️ Ich bin zwar schnell wieder rein gekommen, dennoch hat sich das Buch leider etwas gezogen. Dies lag bestimmt auch an der sprachlichen Barriere, obwohl es leicht verständlich war, als auch daran, das das Genre nicht ganz gepasst hat. Ich kann einfach kein Young Adult mehr lesen. Ich bin einfach zu alt dafür. Reifere Charaktere bevorzuge ich einfach momentan. Nichts desto trotz war das Setting wunderbar. Alaska ist einfach ein Traum!

This was such a lovely story!! A good solid four stars for me🤗. This review is probably gonna contain spoilers‼️ and I’ll try to keep it not that long haha. First we have our girl Savannah Moore, a 17 year old who loves Astronomy, math, legos, running and her simple strict bubble of living. Then we have Tanned Woods, a 17 year old boy who also loves Astronomy, football, party’s, history and has been Savannahs nemesis since their entire life. First of all, I always love the concept of the family’s being great friends since always and in this case also, coworkers. Savannah's mom and Mrs. Woods are going on a company cruise where each can bring their family with to Alaska. After the very public humiliating break up, Savannah decides to use this trip to prove herself to Caleb that she’s not 'boring' or 'stuck in her ways' - but as we know, this trip goes very different than imagined🥴. Tanner and Savannah spend a lot of time together during this trip - they make a deal: Tanner helps her to be more open to things, try new things and take some risks while she helps him pick out a major for him for college. Spoiler alert: he didn’t even really want her help, he just wanted to help her🙈. I must say, they both had suchhhh a good chemistry together and match really well! I was grinning when they finally kissed and later on finally confessed to each other about what they really want. During this trip, they experienced so many things - from tram riding, to dogsledding, jumping in the ocean, get in contact with a grizzly bear, rafting and so so much more. I honestly loved his nickname 'S'more' for her🥹🥹 a mix of her first and last name and the play on words with 'S’mores' haha. They really were great for each other - he helped her to try new things, be more open minded, take some risks to experience fun and really live, while she helped him to stop putting on a facade by acting like the typical 'dumb, funny jock who can never be serious' because he believed he would never meet everyone’s expectations of him, so he didn’t even try to prove them wrong☹️. I also really liked Jordan’s and Savannahs friendship, they were cute. Caleb and Savannah talked and decided to just stay friends, I’m glad they didn’t make a big hateful drama about it😭. I can’t believe I’m already getting older than the protagonists of books, even though I’m only 18 haha. And one other thing I need to mention, as an almost 5'8 girl myself, I LOVE that she was a tall 5'8 girl because YES!! we need more tall girls/women appreciation in these romance books I swear. But yeah.. I definitely had a fun time reading it! 🤗🤗

„His laugh was loud and free and joyful, making his eyes crinkle at the corners. Our gazes met, and his joy was contagious, filling me with light like a star being burned inside my chest.“