Published 3rd August 2023 by Orion.
From the cover of the book:
One week.Two couples.
A holiday they'll never forget...
Indi Drewe is turning thirty and is exactly where she wants to be: she's on the cusp of a promotion, lives in her gorgeous London flat and is sure her perfect-on-paper boyfriend, Will, is about to propose...
Only, on the night she'd hoped Will would present her with a sparkling diamond ring, she finds out that her younger sister Jade is getting married to a man she's known only for a few weeks!
Worried her sister is about to make a terrible mistake, she immediately flies out to visit her sister in Greece - and is shocked to discover she's sharing her villa with a far-too-handsome (and perpetually shirtless) stranger, Mikhos.
Indi and Mikhos might be each other's worst nightmare, but together, they only have days to stop the wedding before it's too late! Yet with so much love in the air on this paradise.
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Indi Drewe is about to hit her thirtieth birthday, and her life is going just as she planned. A job promotion is on the cards, and she is pretty certain that her boyfriend Will is about to pop the question - right on schedule. But on the night when she thinks Will is going to go down on one knee, the future she has mapped out for herself (with multiple spreadsheets) goes off-key. Not only is Will not quite on the same Excel page as Indi, but her younger sister Jade is piping her to the post on the marriage front - to Nico, a man she has only known for a few weeks.
Indi may feel like her personal life is in freefall, but she is determined to prevent Jade from making a mistake in hers. She sets off to Greece to talk some sense to her sister, but when she gets there she is rather distracted by Jade's extremely handsome boss, Mikhos, who is equally keen not to see his cousin Nico getting married. While they set about persuading Jade and Nico not to rush into anything, they find it increasingly hard to to deny that there is a growing attraction between them too. Is love in the air for more than one couple on this idyllic island?
In Love on the Island, Jessica Gilmore carries you off to the beautiful Greek island of Naxos for a gorgeous rom-com adventure. The story is told through the eyes of two sisters, Indi who is a super-organised project manager in London, and her younger sister Jade who is working in an exclusive holiday resort in a tiny island off the coast of Naxos. When tragedy struck in their childhood, Indi took on the role of responsible parent to Jade, which their artist mother seemed incapable of doing, and she has been used to looking after her little sister ever since - its a role she finds hard to step back from, even though Jade is growing up. Meanwhile, Jade is beginning to find her feet out from under Indi's wing, and she is thrown by having to make some very adult decisions.
As the exclusive resort Mikhos is trying to get off the ground comes together, with help of Nico and Jade, Gilmore throws in a bevy of dilemmas for both sisters to negotiate. There is heat in more than just the Greek weather, and along the bumpy path to happiness, she strums on your heartstrings with themes of coming of age, responsibility, expectation, and learning to let go, and explores family dynamics beautifully. I laughed and cried my way through the story, all the way to the heart-warming ending, and thoroughly enjoyed all the little asides into the hard-working hospitality industry, and the weirdness of the world of social media.
This is a fabulous summer read, set against the backdrop of sun, sea, and sensuous experiences, and it hits that warm and fuzzy spot to perfection. I loved it!
Love on the Island is available to buy now in paperback, ebook and audio formats.
Thank you to Orion for sending me a copy of this book in return for an honest review, and for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.
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