Well Traveled

Well Traveled by Jen DeLuca, 305 pages.

Louisa Malone is an attorney at a soul-sucking job where she never seems able to advance. The general terribleness of this finally drives her to a small mental breakdown while visiting a Renaissance Faire on a work trip, where she decides to throw her phone in a tub of water. Intervention from her cousin Mitch and acquaintance Stacey (from Well Matched and Well Played, respectively) soon has her traveling with The Dueling Kilts band and on a complete tech detox for a month or two while she gets her head on straight and decides what to do next. She finds herself starting to be Lulu again, rather than Louisa, and finds that she likes the change. She also finds that she likes the Kilt's guitarist, Dex MacLean (also from Well Played actually) who has a reputation for sleeping around and not much else. But soon Lulu discovers there's more to both herself and him than meets the eye. It's just a shame that their time together has an expiration date. 

This romance novel was fun to read, but I've got to admit that I found a lot of the character development pretty hard to buy. It felt like a lot of character changes, especially in Dex, were made more because the author couldn't have Lulu in love with someone terrible than from any sort of internal place. I also noticed that by the end they don't seem to actually have any common interests, which always makes it a little hard for me to buy a relationship. But! I did have fun reading it, and if you don't think to hard about it the novel can definitely be a good time, especially since we're back in a proper Renaissance Faire atmosphere for pretty much this entire book, which is ultimately why I read them.