My sincere thanks to Avon and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read All Rhodes Lead Here and give my honest opinion of it in the following short review.

What is your love language? One thing I love about Mariana's books is how her characters display their love languages before they even know they are in love. In this book we follow Rhodes who is in his early 40s and Aurora who is 33. They meet when Rhodes' son rents out their garage apartment to Aurora without his father's permission. This does not go over well, but Aurora is allowed to stay when she offers to pay more and not interact with them. Aurora has come back to the small community she left as a young girl after her mother went missing on a hike in the mountains never to be seen again. She has gone through a bad breakup following a 14-year relationship and wants to feel connected to something or someone again. The last place she remembers truly feeling this was when she lived in Colorado with her mom. She's not sure what she is going to do there other than try out some of her mother's favorite hikes as found in the notebooks her mom kept. Keeping away from Rhodes and his son Amos is more difficult than anticipated. Aurora is a sunshiny people person, and it is just not in her nature to ignore those around her. This leads to her rescuing Amos in a time of need and Rhodes finally seeing that she is nothing like he originally pictured her. Watching their relationship grow from that point was a delight.

I love the friendship building in this book, both Aurora's friendship with Rhodes AND with Amos. As their friendship grows, you really see the grumpy Rhodes start to display his love language of acts of service and time. He begins to see a different future for himself, and Aurora heals from a relationship where she was treated like a dirty secret. Rhodes allows her to grow and figure out what she wants before declaring his feelings. I loved the slow burn. This is much more than a fluffy romance and I really enjoyed it. ( )

FROM AMAZON: Aurora De La Torre knows moving back to a place that was once home isn’t going to be easy. Starting your whole life over probably isn’t supposed to be.

But a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart. And checking out her landlord, across the driveway, just might cure it too.

This was so good. It had been a while since I had read a book by Mariana Zapata but I have never disliked a book by her so I knew I would enjoy it going in. I honestly think I liked this more than Kulti. The hiking, nature, and game warden aspects interested me far more than soccer.

Rhodes is definitely a top tier Zapata hero. So grumpy and protective but also sweet. I will probably read this again before the year is over.

Highly recommend. ( )

This was so good. It had been a while since I had read a book by Mariana Zapata but I have never disliked a book by her so I knew I would enjoy it going in. I honestly think I liked this more than Kulti. The hiking, nature, and game warden aspects interested me far more than soccer.

Rhodes is definitely a top tier Zapata hero. So grumpy and protective but also sweet. I will probably read this again before the year is over.

Highly recommend. ( )

This was so heartwarming!! Another great book from Mariana

We need more men like Rhodes ( )