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A review by lauren_soderberg
Just a Little Bet by Tawna Fenske
4.0
Just a Little Bet is a delightful road trip romance with sort of a lovers-to-friends-to-lovers feel, and I’m all the way here for it.
After an anticlimactic attempt at dating, photographer Kayla Gladney and smokejumper Tony Warren have become the best of friends. After a drunken night of self-analyzation, they both conclude that they’re terrible at love. And so a bet is made: they’re going to use Kayla’s already planned road trip to seek out Tony’s exes and find out why he’s been so unlucky in love. But when forced proximity and a whole lot of chemistry combine, they might just discover that what they’ve been looking for has been in front of them the whole time.
I love a good road trip tale, and ‘Just a Little Bet’ does not disappoint. From the beginning, Kayla and Tony have great chemistry, and author Tawna Fenske does a great job of slowly blurring the lines between friendship and romance in a really believable way. The plot is fun, but there are also some surprising depths that are mined in the story. It touches on the effects of abuse and neglect, and how they shape a person. It touches on the ways that women are perceived societally and the way they perceive themselves under that lens. And, at its heart, there’s a beautiful, supportive friendship that is wonderful to read.
Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
After an anticlimactic attempt at dating, photographer Kayla Gladney and smokejumper Tony Warren have become the best of friends. After a drunken night of self-analyzation, they both conclude that they’re terrible at love. And so a bet is made: they’re going to use Kayla’s already planned road trip to seek out Tony’s exes and find out why he’s been so unlucky in love. But when forced proximity and a whole lot of chemistry combine, they might just discover that what they’ve been looking for has been in front of them the whole time.
I love a good road trip tale, and ‘Just a Little Bet’ does not disappoint. From the beginning, Kayla and Tony have great chemistry, and author Tawna Fenske does a great job of slowly blurring the lines between friendship and romance in a really believable way. The plot is fun, but there are also some surprising depths that are mined in the story. It touches on the effects of abuse and neglect, and how they shape a person. It touches on the ways that women are perceived societally and the way they perceive themselves under that lens. And, at its heart, there’s a beautiful, supportive friendship that is wonderful to read.
Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.