✨Im Literary Anxious✨

𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲🕒: 3 minutes
𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿: Shona Knight ✍🏻𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁: 817 Total 📖

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗲:🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁: Book 1 385 | Book 2 432
𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗽: One MMC is 10 years older than MFC
𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁: Duet
𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲: Book 1 ends on a cliffhanger, book 2 HAE
𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀: 𝘋𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦  by Reese Rivers
𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲: Multi POV

“𝙕𝙚𝙚, 𝙞𝙛 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙮, 𝙄’𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙.”

🌴Why Choose
🥥Castaway Vibes
🌴Trauma and Healing
🥥Reverse Tarzan vibes
🌴Protective MMCs
🥥Forced Proximity

This shit was ADDICTIVE. Normally, I juggle one physical book and one Kindle book, saving the ebook for late-night reads in bed. Then Shona dropped this duet and said: Forget your physical book and your sleep schedule, too.

I’m in my late 30s, ma’am—I can’t be staying up past midnight like it’s no big deal. It’s unnatural.

Zee’s story had me hooked from page one. Even before the guys show up, she’s funny, engaging, and completely likeable. Trash-talking Kevin the palm tree and Bob (that little menace—IYKYK), hanging with Mo-Mo the lemur, and treating Steve the rock as her BFF? I lived for all of it.

Of course, the themes here are heavy. But Shona strikes such a smart balance—pairing Zee’s tough backstory with sharp humor, quirky island friends, Bowers’ commentary, and the swoony, chaotic energy of Zee and her guys.

And yes, I know there are reviews out there harping that this unrealistic. Could someone really survive 15 years alone on an island? Would multiple people live through plane crashes? Would Zee really fall for these guys so quickly? Would they be all in that fast? To which I say: no shit. That’s the point. Suspend your disbelief and enjoy the ride.

I did not see Zee and Reece’s shared history coming, though I clocked from the start that his dad was the real villain of the piece. Fucker.

Like always, I leaned toward book one—it’s got that electric “falling in love” high. But book two still delivered in spades, even without the same brand-new relationship buzz.

Highlights:

• I would 100% be best friends with Mo-Mo.
• Thanks, Shona, for making me desperately want a pet lemur.
• The guys dressing up in lemur onesies? Everything.

Final thought: while I swooned hard over the romance, can we talk about how realistic is it that Reece stayed celibate this whole time? 👀