OUR REVIEW:
Katherine Center is still a new to me author; I believe I've read one of her other novels, but I recall enjoying it, so when The Shippers was available on NetGalley, I decided to give it a try. The Shippers is most definitely a romcom-JoJo reminds me of a Lucille Ball type character--physical comedy, that comes off as kind of a ditz, even though she's really not. She's just trying to figure out how and why she's so bad at relationships. About half of this novel is about JoJo working on trying to snag the guy she thinks all other relationshis failed because of. When she finally wakes up to the truth, it's almost too late...but luckily for us, this is romance...so it's never too late. Cooper. Cooper is an interesting dude. On the one hand, such a good guy. Seriously such a good guy. On the other hand, I wanted to shake him for letting things go on for as long as it did. Because COME ONNNNNNN, we knew it was him all along. Gah.
Anyway, this novel is a great vacation read--light, funny, cute, and easy to read.
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SYNOPSIS:
After a whole lifetime of being bad at love, JoJo Burton decides to solve her intimacy issues once and for all at her sister’s destination wedding on a cruise ship. With the help of a little pop psychology, she diagnoses herself with a fixation on the neighborhood guy who was her her first crush and first kiss (and who just happens to be a newly-divorced wedding guest ), and she decides to woo him during the cruise for some long-delayed closure. Only problem is, her sister’s a little busy being a bride at the moment—so JoJo ropes in her childhood bestie, Cooper Watts, to be her wing man. Cooper: who RSVPed no, but then showed up, anyway. Cooper: who left town without a word four years earlier and moved to London. Cooper: who was, if she’s honest, the worst heartbreak of JoJo’s life. It’s bliss for her to see him again, and it’s agony, too—and the more they team up for Project Conquest, the more she obsesses over questions she can’t bring herself to ask.
Shipboard antics ensue in this witty, heart-tugging, childhood-friends-to-lovers romance—as JoJo and Cooper fake flirt, slow dance, share a cabin, sing duets, treat sunburns, get jealous, rescue each other over and over, and finally, at last, figure it all out in the most blissful, swoony, romantic way.
No one does summer romance quite like Katherine Center. THE SHIPPERS will take readers on the cruise of a lifetime in a story awash with romantic longing, top-notch banter, long-held secrets . . . and true love rediscovered.
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