Paradise Lost & Found

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Paradise Lost & Found is a cute story, it really is. Adam has been left at the alter by Vanessa. Instead of losing money on the honeymoon, Adam goes on his own. While there he meets Kip, who is there for his sister's wedding. There's a whole debacle with a room — they end up sharing one — and well, they fall in love over the course of a two week vacation. It's adorable. The premise is solid.

Unfortunately, think it could have used another pass by an editor before being published. The book clocks in at a little over 400 pages, which felt much, much longer while reading. Paradise Lost & Found is dual POV, which I normally like. However, each time the book changed POVs, there was a rehashing of what had just gone on. This was completely unnecessary and made the book much longer than it needed to be. There were also frequent UK-isms in the text, which was slightly jarring as both Adam and Kip were from the US. A few examples off the top of my head: cooling box = cooler, tin = can, whilst = while.

On the romance side of things, Adam and Kip were steamy together, with rock-solid chemistry. You couldn't help but feel how attracted they were to each other. This part of the book was top-notch. But I do wish the steamy scenes had actually been steamy, instead there was a lot of vague references, and some fade-to-black.

Overall, Paradise Lost & Found is a cute book. Cute, but not something I'll probably pick up again for a long while.