Out With The Tide Review

By Julie Olivia

Never Harbor Book 2

Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Blurb

This isn’t her idea of home, but she’s quickly becoming mine.

I’m Never Harbor’s neighborhood best friend. Along with being the middle child in a loud family of seven, I’m accustomed to being everything to everyone. But after moving into my new townhouse by the sea, my world has suddenly grown too quiet.

But then she moves back to town.

Marina Starkey is my landlord’s daughter with nowhere to go. She needs a place to stay for the summer, and thankfully I’m just the kind of guy to offer.

Hello there, new roommate.

She’s gorgeous and cheeky with a stubbornness that matches my own. (Don’t get me started on the shared bed situation.) Summer days pass in soft touches and afternoon swims, and my heart sinks deeper with every stroke.

I’m not a temporary fling kind of guy, and Marina has no intention of staying past the summer.

She doesn’t want to fall in love with her hometown, and I’m basically Mr. Never Harbor himself.

But my home is quickly becoming wherever I’m with her.

Genre: Contemporary Romance

 

Read if you Like:

🌊  Roommates

🌊  Sunshine sunshine

🌊  One bed

🌊  Forbidden romance

🌊  Small town

My Thoughts:

It was such a treat to come back to the seaside town of Never Harbor for Marina and Cassidy's story. They are both such sunny and loving characters and seeing them fall in love was a delight!

I loved that Marina and Cassidy were both warm go-with-the-flow people who understood each other so well. It was really interesting to read the things they were insecure about based on their personalities. I am an introvert and I always assume extroverts are embraced for their personalities.

While this is a light romance in a lot of ways it does have some darker issues it deals with like sexual harassment and victim blaming. I liked that Cassidy supported Marina and her other friends did as well. I did struggle a bit with the town's reaction. I think sometimes the idea that we should always be kind can be problematic.

I'm very excited to see where this series goes next! The last chapter gave us a hint and I think it's going to be great. Julie Oliver does a wonderful job creating a sense of magic for the town and creating different types of characters that are incredibly lovable!

🌶️🌶️🌶️- There are several open door steamy scenes in this one and a lot of sexual tension!

Thanks to Penpal PR for the eARC. All opinions are my own.s