Really enjoyable read. Good characters and a Good story. Well worth a read. Think others will enjoy.

Books I wanted to love: this one.
Books that had me eye rolling so hard I had headache: sadly, also this one. I gave u. Just not for me.

This is the first ever book I've read and isn't my usual read but with the thanks of Netgalley I got a copy to read and review. A group of friends all decide to go on a skiing trip to France, as one of the friends has a villa there.... Who wouldn't like that? But there's less skiing and more partying on the slopes. Jenna is the main character and she is falling for Bertie but Bertie isn't giving off the same feelings..... And someone else likes Berie too... There were many characters to begin with, 6 in total but it gets too complicated at the beginning and although it's only at the beginning it lost some interest for me.... But I kept on with it and it flowed much better towards the end.
At times it lost my attention, but it's definitely a seasonal read due to the snow and slopes, there's flirting involved and some casual sexual moments but all done tastefully. Well done.

3.5 Stars

From the looks of the cover and the blurb I thought perfect this is easily my sort of book, I will love it and it should be a nice quick read for me. So you may be wondering why only 3.5 stars from me?

I think it was just the wrong book for my frame of mind at the time of reading it. Unfortunately my main bug bear with it was purely that I didn't like most of the characters and from their behaviours I felt like I was 10-15 years too old to read this book - I would reckon teenagers would potentially enjoy this, or uni aged people but it just didn't quite strike the right chord with me.

That being said, wow there was a lot of sex in this book and some of those scenes were hot and highly enjoyable. Some of it could be classed as more risque or sordid which did add to the fun of the book, and there seemed to be a lot of partner swapping.

The action on the ski slopes too caught my attention and I loved the both the action on and off the piste, especially the hunky French ski instructor who was incredibly flirty!

There is plenty to enjoy and I reckon another day, I would have been raving about the book. I am though curious to see what the next book is going to be like, although having read the blurb of that before finishing this one, I did know who one of the characters ended up with already.

6 friends, 6 perspectives, a whole lot of fun and action packed into a one week ski holiday, plus some adventure and adrenalin pumping scenes. Good debut and be curious to see how this author progresses.

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

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the Publishers for this review copy, given in exchange for an honest review.

Debut book by Fliss Chester, and in it we meet old university friends Jenna, Max, Angus, Bertie, Hugo and Sally. They are all off on a week’s skiing holiday to Val D’Argent courtesy of Bertie’s friend who has a villa there. When they get there you realise it’s probably less skiing and more drinking, fun and frolics!

I loved the look of this book. The cover was très enticing (did you see what I did there?! I chucked some French in as the book is set in France!), and the blurb sounded great fun. Jenna was the main narrator of the story and it started off well meeting all of her old university friends. Jenna has a massive crush on Max, to the point of dreamily thinking of him at every given opportunity. Unfortunately, Bertie also has a thing for Max, and whilst Jenna tries to spend the holiday not thinking about him, Bertie does the complete opposite!

It was a good story, but to be honest I did get a bit bogged down with all the characters. There are only 6 main characters but when they all come together at the beginning, I found it really hard to concentrate on who was who and who was with who. Obviously, as the book went on it became easier, but it did spoil the overall excitement of it for me.

It is a fun book though, and there are laughs aplenty. It does have a few ‘flirty’ bits, and some bits that go a bit further than ‘flirty’, but it’s all done in good taste and good humour. It’s definitely a seasonal book with more snow that you can shake a stick at. The vision of Jenna trying to get down the ski slope despite not being much of a skier reminded me so much of the film version of the infamous ‘Bridget Jones’, and was probably my favourite bit of the book.

On the whole, it didn’t really keep my attention throughout the whole story, but it was still an enjoyable read. Definitely worth a go in my opinion!