Aurora moves back to the place that was once her home after being forced to start her life anew. Focusing on healing, a small town in Colorado might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart. It might also help that the landlord, who lives just across the driveway, is also an attractive silver fox who grows steadily on Aurora.


All Rhodes Lead Here is an equally cheesy and cringy romance novel with a horrible pun in the book title. It is over 600 pages long and in my opinion, no contemporary romance has the right to be so long. Not even a slow slow burn as it is the case with this book. A good round of editing is required because the majority of the book is filled with Aurora's never-ending inner monologue that feels repetitive and unnecessary. The editing would get rid of the occasional plot holes and non-consistency as well.

Character-wise, I'm not the biggest fan of Aurora as I found her rather annoying. The author picked the "sunshine and the grump" trope for her romance and Aurora is the sunshine character. She's always positive, never gets angry, ... and is of course outrageously beautiful (and stupid). As someone who has worked in a shop for outdoor gear: it isn't as difficult as the author portrays it is and I rolled my eyes constantly about her "I'm so clueless but I want to learn but somehow I don't learn about it until Rhodes teaches me". Amos was charming and a typical teenager; reminded me a lot of my younger brother. Bit flat character-wise but well, he was just the means to an end to get Aurora and Rhodes together. Rhodes is the grumpy character who's (of course) over 6" tall, strong and muscular, and weighs over 90kg (given that he's over 1.90m tall, I would expect him to be heavier since he's also muscular). His main traits are: being grumpy and distrustful, having grey hair, being a workaholic, trying to be a good father, being rather obsessed with Aurora towards the end. While he has certainly book boyfriend qualities, I found his possessive behaviour icky (e.g., Aurora leaves to spend the night at her friend's house, Rhodes misunderstands her leaving with a duffel bag and appears at the friend's house to "take her back home because I will never let you leave") especially after they had an argument. Yes, he admits that he has to start communicating (no matter what) but I wasn't a fan of the possessive behaviour. Plus, his weird nicknames/terms of endearment got onto my nerves because he calls Aurora: "Buddy" (after Buddy the Elf because "you always smile"), "angel" (because she's one) and "angel face" (because she's beautiful). Not a fan of those. 

The romance is certainly a slow burn that develops over several months (I think six months?), so it feels somewhat realistic that both start to fall for each other. There's the typical "third act break-up" point (which I hate because it was unrequired) but it happens around 80% into the book, so very very third act, and the rest afterwards is pretty rushed. A majority of the story happens in the epilogue that plays several years after the main story and includes points that do not make sense.

The sex scene is certainly a 4 🌶️ but a very cringy one with the worst descriptions and dirty talk. Also, what is up with men growling like animals in sex scenes? Are they suddenly wild cats or what? Of course, he has a big dick (it seems to be a requirement by now lol).