Book Review - Escape to the Swiss Chalet by Carrie Walker

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Title: Escape to the Swiss Chalet

Author: Carrie Walker

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Aria

Publication Date: 9th November 2023

Rating: 5 Stars

When your life goes off-piste how do you climb back up the mountain?

Holly Roberts is well-known among family and friends for despising the cold, so no one is more surprised than her when she agrees to pack her bags and move to the Swiss Alps. But after getting her heart broken, spending the winter season working as a sous-chef for wealthy twins Genevieve and gorgeous Luca, is exactly what the doctor ordered.

Verbier is home to millionaires and Holly has never felt more out of place in the snow-capped wooden chalet. Thankfully new friends, chalet girl Liv and chef Xavier are there to be her guide in this new world of après-ski and fondue, and to teach her how to get off chair lifts! And then there is Luca... rich, handsome, kind but what is the catch?

She just wanted to escape her problems but could she get her Happily Ever After?

What a fabulous debut novel, I can easily say I devoured this book and already want to know when Carrie Walkers next book is due out.

A gorgeous wintry novel, that tried to cool me off in the late summer heatwave as I was reading it.

Set in the ski resort of Verbier, winter playground of the rich and famous, we have the story of some of the seasonaires that are working for one particular chalet.

Holly is recovering from recently being jilted not quite at the altar, and has taken the job as a change of pace. She is a promising sous chef and has the makings of a sommelier too.

So this is a book filled with delicious sounding food, expensive fine wines, and life on a gorgeous mountain with someone who has never skied or snowboarded before.

Which leads to some rather amusing scenes. Actually there are plenty of funny moments in this enjoyable rom-com.

Oh and there are sexy men too, and I know who I was rooting for. There are some rather pathetic men too!

Just a joyous wintry read that has left me hoping for a sequel. Utter perfection, all the things I love in a book in one story. Adored it. 

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