You Make Me Tremble by Karis Walsh

Two women meet on the ferry and are attracted to one another but clash before the ferry docks. Iris O’Malley, animal rescuer, is a resident on the island that Casey Radnor, seismologist, has been sent to study after an earthquake has hit the area. With one thing leading to another the two spend quite a bit of the time Casey is on the island clashing, sharing and caring. They find they have much in common in some ways but that they are quite different in others. The main dilemma is trust and whether or not there is a way for them to meet their professional needs while moving forward together. I like animals so loved the many animals shared in this story. I enjoyed learning more about the San Juan Islands, seismology and even a bit about creating greeting cards. This is my first book by this author but doubt it will be my last. In some ways I can see this as the first book in a series that would star the residents of Friday Harbor.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bold Strokes Books, Inc. for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4 Stars ( )

I'm not sure if I've ever read a lesbian romance with a seismologist as one of the main characters. That's what Casey is though.

An earthquake has just rocked the San Juan Islands (and the surrounding islands as well) and Casey is on the Ferry to go do fieldwork and find out about aftershocks and that sort of thing (whatever seismologists do).

Iris also gets on the Ferry, but she's a walk on with a ton of animals with her. She runs an animal rescue on San Juan and she has a ton of the lost pets (and a couple of goats, which the book tries to make cute, but really, I'm not a fan of goats, even these two).

Casey can't find any hotel on the island, but luckily Iris has an empty small sort of house (where her Interns usually stay) and so Casey starts helping out to fix back up the rescue in between when she goes out and gets readings. Oh, and the two of them also find time to slowly get closer and closer to one another (this is a Lesbian romance after all).

I liked the plot and story in this novel, and I also really liked the characters, both the main and the secondary ones. But, I especially liked the main dog character in the book. Chert. First of all, awesome name, but he was also just written so perfectly too. Very cute.

I got this ARC through Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books. ( )