Cabin Fever: A Sapphic Romantic Comedy by Tessa Vidal

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I’d never heard of this author before but stumbled up Cabin Fever. It was almost perfect for me. Great humor and heat. The characters felt real and were great together. Also I can’t look away from the cover. I freaking love it. Especially the look on Cathy’s face. Really sets the tone.

Here’s the blurb (which is longer than my review):

Rule #1 of surviving heartbreak: Don’t fall for the famous actress hiding in the cabin next door.
Book editor Cathy Street has a plan: hide in a remote North Carolina cabin, lick her wounds after catching her girlfriend kissing her personal assistant, and pretend the rest of the world doesn’t exist. No drama. No complications. Definitely no feelings.

Then she meets her neighbor.

Liza Morrison-better known as Dr. Crystal Pierce from the hit soap Edge of Secret Desires-is everything Cathy doesn’t need: famous, chaotic, and far too beautiful for anyone’s peace of mind. She’s also hiding from her own mess of a life, a manipulative agent, and an identity crisis that no amount of dramatic monologues can fix.

Cue a record-breaking blizzard, a cat with zero respect for personal boundaries, and the kind of tension that makes sharing a cabin feel like playing with fire.

When a stolen kiss goes viral and their private bubble explodes into tabloid chaos, Cathy must decide: Is love worth the media circus? And can two women who came to the mountains to hide finally find the courage to be seen?Cabin Fever is a steamy, laugh-out-loud sapphic romance about second chances, found family (including one very opinionated cat), and discovering that sometimes the best things in life are the ones you never planned for.

What stopped it from being a 5-star read? The redundancy. The same information being repeated by each POV character. The reader doesn’t need to rehash everything that just happened. We were there. If we couldn’t get the non-POV character’s feeling/thought/reaction from the author showing us, maybe we don’t need it. Or it can be introduced in a way that doesn’t just regurgitate the same ideas/thoughts/whatever in the same words.

This was a short novel but would have been a 5-star novella or short story that had more impact. But still I’ve fallen in love with Ms. Vidal’s writing voice and have already jumped into a sample of another of her books.



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