Actual Rating: 2.5 stars

The Holiday Survival Guide was a quick, entertaining read with some sweet moments. I never fully liked Erica, but luckily Nathan had enough charm and likability for the both of them. I realize the story was short, but the insta-love aspect was a bit of a turn off and I felt the author could have drawn the process out for a little longer to make it more realistic. Erica was also considering doing a pretty crap thing to Nathan near the end of the book after they both had already confessed their love just so she could keep her job, which really made my opinion of Erica drop further. In conclusion, this is not a bad book by any means. I thoroughly enjoyed the story while snuggling under some blankets as I imagined how freakin' cold it must feel where they are at.

A copy was provided by the publisher via NetGalley.

This is 2 1/2 stars for me - would have been a 2 but I liked the hero

Erica is a writer for a tabloid newspaper in London. She has been encouraged to take a holiday while the legal storm over one of her articles blows over. She decides instead of taking one she would enjoy she would go on a holiday that she would hate. She signed up for a survival outing.

Erica is a character that never warmed up to me. Even when she broke from her self-righteous attitude she never became a character I enjoyed and rooted for. Nathan endeared himself to me from the first page, He was so broken and his survival outing business was truly a mirror of his life; he was just surviving.

Not only was Erica hard to take in this book; but so was the plot. A romance written about a survival outing in the dead of winter. When the setting changed and there were romantic scenes in settings that were more conducive to romance the circumstances and execution were forced for me. I finished the book because it was a relatively short read and I did like Nathan.

I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley for my honest review