Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
This was just boring. I wanted there to be something interesting about this one, but there just wasn’t. You cannot have the heroine or hero be straight up insufferable in a romance book unless you are doing enemies to lovers IMHO. Unfortunately, the heroine in this one, Chelsea was insufferable. I really needed to know what everyone else saw in her, because she complained throughout this book, acted entitled, above people, etc., but I am supposed to believe that the love interest Collin was into her? It also made zero sense to me why anyone at the hostel she eventually works at even cared that Chelsea enjoyed her time in Ireland. She was that coworker with the bad attitude that everyone would avoid in real life. The other characters were not developed at all.
Also, not that it should matter much, but Chelsea is Jewish and living in Boston before Ireland, I would have been curious about that background to a character, but it’s not brought up much. I think it was jarring because the character of Collin is so focused on Chelsea fitting in and looking Irish (she has red hair) and I really was wondering why she didn’t bring up her religion and say hey, I don’t want to “fit in” and “look Irish.” The whole thing kept rubbing me the wrong way.
All in all, not a great read and was glad that it was over.