Pub Day! The Suite Spot by Trish Doller

Happy birthday to this lovely book! I very much enjoyed reading this one and highly recommend it.

My review is posted below. Do consider buying or borrowing this one. It's a keeper.

❤ ❤ ❤

The Suite Spot

by Trish Doller

Release date: March 8, 2022

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin


✨✨ 4.5 stars out of 5 ✨✨

OMG this gave me allll the feels 🥰🥺 I’ve never read anything by Trish Doller before (Float Plan is high up on my TBR) but I love the characters she created here, the story she told, and her writing style. I’m definitely looking forward to reading more of her work after this.

Rachel Beck is a single mom who finds herself in need of a new job and decides to make a big life change to get it. This is a follow-up to Float Plan (the MCs of both books are sisters) but can absolutely stand on its own. (For Float Plan fans: Anna & Keane make cameos.)

There was honestly so much I appreciated and enjoyed about this book. I loved Rachel’s strength and tenacity and her big heart. I loved her 3 yr old daughter Maisie. She is absolutely precious and lights up every scene she’s in. Rachel is a wonderful mom and their relationship is heart warming. And I thought the way we get to know Mason, the layers slowly being peeled away, was interesting and worked really well. Mason is a sweetheart and he and Rachel are perfection together. 😘👌

I also appreciated the fat rep in the book. Rachel deals with body acceptance issues and casual fatphobia from douchebags in a way that I think is super relatable for a lot of women (myself included).

Interestingly, the book has a plethora of useless and terrible male figures: Rachel’s deadbeat father, her disappointment of a baby daddy Brian, her former boss, the VIP hotel client who takes advantage of her. I really appreciated the real world take on how often women are subjected to misogyny, male privilege, and sexual harassment/assault and how those things affect their lives. Rachel is a very strong, smart and capable woman but is still constantly fighting against the affect these men have (inadvertently or otherwise) on her life. The feminist messaging warmed my heart.

So I guess I don’t have to tell you I really, really enjoyed this and once I started it I didn’t want to put it down. The Suite Spot is a thoroughly charming, incredibly sweet, and deeply emotional gem of a romance. I will definitely be buying this one for my shelf.

❥ ❥ ❥ ❥ ❥

Pertinent info:
- Contemporary romance
- M/F
- Single parent MC
- Single POV
- Slow burn
- Low steam
- Realistic depictions of cats and toddlers

TW: unwanted sexual advances/assault, mention of the death of a child, divorce

Many thanks to NetGalley and St Martins Griffin for providing the digital ARC.










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