This is the story of Gabby and Olive. They're both photgraphers who have entered the Catalina contest where the grand prize is to become a travel photographer for a magazine that Olive loves. Olive does posed photography for a boss that's not quite a nice guy on the island and has a big secret that keeps her on the island. While Gabby is the general manager of a bunch of pizza stores on the mainland whose whole life has seemed to be predetermined and photography wasn't in that predetermination.

This one is a hard one. It wasn't a bad book, the writing, the plot, the narrative in general I thought was really good. It was the characters that tripped me up. At the beginning I did not like either of them at all. Gabby was an egocentric bitch, and Olive was a follower to the nth degree. That's fine, the problem was that I also thought that by the end of the story Gabby stayed the same, and while I sorta at least understood where Olive was coming from, she still seemed to me like a limp character.

I don't know. Most people seemed to like the book more than I do, so perhaps I was missing something really big that should have changed my point of view or something? But I guess that I just could never get into the book because I never really found myself rooting for the characters in any way.

I was given this ARC by Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books. ( )