When Summer Hartwell - a twenty-six year old librarian still living with her neurotic, overbearing parents - gets a chance to escape from them for a little while on a holiday cruise, she's determined to seize the moment, explore all her opportunities and find herself a husband so she can escape the parental home at last. But things don't go to plan when Summer ends up having to share a cabin with her brother's best friend and business partner, Graham, who weirdly seems to like spending time with her and her parents.

This was a silly, funny closed door romance that, like all of Beth LaBonte's books do, delivered some seasonal atmosphere, and honestly made me love my family even more than I do because thank god they are not like Summer's parents. Good god.

While the parents are definitely the funny factor in this book from Summer's mom's reactions to pretty much everything, and her dad's passive - dare I say creepiness - but his will to rebel a little as well away from his suffocating wife, there are times it's downright painful to read about them and I just found Summer a little bit pathetic for putting up with it for so long. She treated her parents like they were in their eighties, and they in turn treated her like she was 13 years old. And while her dad is funny, her mom is basically a full on Karen and extremely unpleasant in her shriekiness most of the time.

I did however really like Graham because girl, if a man as good looking, nice and rich as that is happy to spend all that time with your crazy folks, yes please god marry him. I'm looking forward to the next two books to see how Summer, Graham and the parents all deal with upcoming marriages and babies and it will certainly be a good time.