Book Review - Love on the Island by Jessica Gilmore

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Title: Love on the Island

Author: Jessica Gilmore

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Orion

Publication Date: 4th July 2023 

Rating: 3 Stars

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 island, will they be able to resist falling for each other, too?

What a stunning setting this story has on the Greek Island on Naxos and a smaller nearby island. 

This radiated warmth,  Greek hospitality and made me feel very summery indeed.

I loved the resort that Jade was helping to launch with new fiancé Nico. 

However sister Indi's life isn't going according to her plan, and when is dumped, she decides to visit Greece.

Indi is so rigid to begin with that it is really hard to connect with her. She appears to be overly controlling of her sister's life (although has some good reasons for it), and it took for her being in Greece for a while and her catching the eye of Nico's cousin, for me to start to warm to her at all. 

I found the book quite slow going but that could just be because I was reading it while so busy with real life that I just couldn't sit and read for long enough at any point, to really get into it.    I am positive it's a really good book and at any other time I'd be raving about it. 

The final third I absolutely loved, and I really enjoyed seeing how everything turned out for our characters.  It's certainly an enjoyable read. 

Thank you to Orion and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.