All Rhodes Lead Here

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We then follow Aurora as she tries to rediscover who she is now and redefine what her life will look like in this new place. You didn’t survive someone taking a wrecking ball to your existence and not have thousands of fractures to live with the rest of your life. there may be too much slow and not nearly enough burn and steam as i wouldve liked, but i was absolutely a sucker for the growing intimacy and all the tender moments between the MCs. I liked the way the author built the relationship between Tobias and Aurora; everything felt natural and real. Meaningful conversations are had and her descriptions of body language are so in-depth that you have no choice but to truly see, understand and interpret who these characters are.

However, given the amount of time it took for the characters to get together, the culmination of their relationship feels abrupt. In my opinion, the romance actually developed a lot quicker than I thought it would, so that was the only quibble I can point out.but i was going to be excited—at least as much as i could be—about this start and however it would end. I’d come up with the idea of going back to Pagosa Springs two weeks ago in the middle of the night while the weight of every choice I’d made in the last fourteen years rested on my soul—not for the first time either, more like the thousandth—and I’d fought not to cry.

read 02/06/2023: Thank you, for letting me share one of my favorite books with you, honeycake ❤ I'm glad you loved this one as much as I did. Rhodes was so grumpy but so protective and I loved how he was trying his best to be there for Aurora. She was just so real and so admirable with the way she stood up for herself and how determined and such a relatable person she is.

It’s an interesting argument to say books are less disappointing if you have fewer expectations going into them but for these reasons, indie authors’ reputations precede them and expectations can be just as high and books can fall just as hard. It wouldn't be until page 300 or so for him to finally start developing and become somewhat nice to Aurora. All the scenes with her friends (Thank you Mariana Zapata for actually portraying healthy female friendships in your books) were the best things ever, and it was amazing following Ora on her journey. From “Kulti” to “Wait for It” to “Wall of Winnipeg and Me,” readers already know to expect that Mariana Zapata’s books will be contemporary romances at least 500 pages long with at least one character connected to another character from one of her other books.

Thankfully, it took a different turn pretty quickly, and I guess I have to thank Zapata's writing and her characters for it. a year later, she decides to move back to her childhood home and do many of the things her mother used to do. after a break up, aurora del la torre decides to move to her childhood home, pagosa springs, where she hopes to start over. this book really made me wanna get out of my bed, stop reading till 4 am, and instead wake up at 4 am, go on 5 hour hikes, go camping and generally just go outside. Spending time in Texas and then skipping to Arizona, exploring towns and cities I hadn’t had time to check out in the past when I’d come through.You didn’t know what it was like to be alone until you didn’t have people who could or would notice if you went missing. Books set in small towns are always super heartwarming just because of the sense of community and I don’t know, nature is nice I guess, and the setting definitely contributed to the healing part of this book. I loved these characters and knew there was potential between them, but we weren't being given anything! When Rhodes and Amos find out who Aurora's boyfriend is and give her the silent treatment, she packs her bag to stay at Clara's house for a night and they followed her there, because they thought she was leaving them.

I literally couldn't stop reading it, at times, and had to remind myself I should have saved some for rainy days. but upon writing this review, there was really no reason that bothered me too much to not throw in the five stars. when he came out of his shell and we were shown just how protective and possessive he can be I WAS DONE FOR.The main conclusion I drew while reading All Rhodes Lead Here is that Zapata’s hallmark—the length of her novels—might also be indicative of her greatest weakness. When Aurora went on that hike alone and made it back later than planned and then she saw Rhodes coming her way, he drove two and half hours just to check on her, because he was worried. Aurora's relationship with her mom seems adorable, I wished we got more shown through flashbacks than tell, but the way Aurora tried to go on all of her mom's fav hikes as to honor her. It was more than a romance and I loved that part so much, because it was about loving a devoting mother and dealing with the aftermath of her death or presumed death, in this case Aurora didn’t even know what happened to her mom and was grieving her loose for so long.