Published March 2023 via Forever
★★★★
Two men and a long, long trail from Mexico to Canada...what could go wrong?
This feels like the hiking fiction that I've been looking for for years—hiking memoirs are relatively easy to find, but for some reason hiking fiction often devolves into something that focuses exclusively on relationships and forgets that there's a whole world of woods and mountains and desert out there. Don't get me wrong; I went into this knowing full well that it was a romance, and I expected (correctly!) that there would be plenty of interpersonal material here. But it is so satisfying to read a piece of hiking fiction where the characters notice their blisters, and care about the smells and sounds and sights around them, and feel the difference between landscapes. They spend most nights in tents and drink shitty instant coffee in the morning and send bounce boxes up the coast, and I love it.
Add in one hero who is working through trauma/grief, both heroes who are (usually) ready and willing to communicate openly, Alanna as a narrative device, and a lively cast of secondary characters, and this was just about everything I could hope for in a PCT romance.
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