After graduating from the University of Salford with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she delved briefly into the world of photography before becoming a freelance romance author, focusing on her passion of representing diverse characters and relationships in her stories, particularly with queer, curvy, and working-class protagonists. She was insistent on becoming a dancer until the first time she put pen to paper, and has been writing ever since. That might have been why the middle section seemed to drag a little too.Rachel Bowdler grew up and still lives just outside of Manchester, on the edge of West Yorkshire. Robin and Neve’s attraction was there on page, but I just didn’t feel it so much.
It means I liked it) was that, at times, it felt a little dry. Possibly then, the one reason that I didn’t rate this book more than 3 stars (which, I would like to take a moment to stress, is a good rating. It’s one of those romance novels where you hope there’ll be a sequel that focuses on some of the side characters, because they feel like they should be allowed their own story. And it’s not just Robin and Neve who benefit from this, but all of the side characters too. I think this is the best part of the book, how much thought and care has been put into developing the characters. If it doesn’t make sense for Robin and Neve to act in a certain way, they don’t. They’re not cardboard cutouts being shoved into a plot progression that the author thinks they should fit, without any consideration to whether they do fit it-it’s Robin and Neve and their personalities that drive how the plot goes. Of course, this believability is, I think, helped by the fact that both Robin and Neve feel like real people. By the end of the book, they’d only known each other for about two weeks, but it didn’t feel like that, which is a hallmark of a good romance author for me. Probably a highlight of this book was their relationship, how it built slowly, and how it made you believe they hadn’t just met each other. But, as they’re sort of forced to spend more and more time together, each starts to thaw. Whatever the polar opposite of clicking is, they do it. Honeymoon for One is a sweet romance, centering on Robin who, months after having just been unceremoniously cheated on and dumped by her fiancee, realises that she forgot to cancel their honeymoon, and Neve, the ski instructor at the resort where Robin ends up, convinced by her sister to use the honeymoon on her own.Īt first, Robin and Neve do not click.
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