The Tourist Attraction doesn't feel like a 2020 release. It has a lived-in feeling to it, like it's a title I borrowed from the library as a teenager. It's comfortable, familiar escapism. Is it revolutionary romance? No. Does it promote some questionably aggressive behaviour in men as romantic attributes for a hero? Sort of. But did I read this, the first in the series, in one sitting on a chilly Sunday afternoon then immediately borrow the audiobook of the next title, Mistletoe and Mr. Right, from the library and get through it in over the next twenty-four hours? Yes. Yes, I did. 

The worldbuilding of the Alaskan town of Moose Springs is homey and welcoming, decorated with cameos by wild animals which were entertaining to this holiday-deprived would-be-backpacker suburban girl. The hero Graham is completely smitten with heroine Zoey from almost the moment he lays eyes on her, which may rankle some as instalove. His characterisation is variable for me - some fun moments, and then moments of quite unlikeable immaturity. I will give credit where it's due - the heroine calls him out as an "alphahole" to his face. Normalise calling out immature men, I suppose?
 
This is not the book I'd give a newbie to sell them on the genre, honestly; but if you read a lot of contemporary romance, this is a quick diverting read that you may enjoy. 

TO TEACH?
I love finding romance that I can use in my classroom for my genre fiction study with Year 7. The first instance of the hero and heroine's meet cute could be useful as an example when teaching romance tropes. Cut off your excerpt before you get the second instance of their meet cute, where the heroine's best friend has left her alone in a strange bar in a strange town, three sheets to the wind after potentially drugging her (which is played off as a joke?) 

The sex scenes are closed door, so if you were to use an excerpt in class and a voracious teenage reader sought the book out to finish it, you shouldn't be in trouble.