Only You by K.T. Quinn

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation to Rome.
Then the pandemic hit.
Now I’m quarantined in an empty hotel until things blow over.
But considering who’s in the room next to mine?
Things could be a lot worse.Donovan Russo is the full package.

Tall, tan, and stupidly handsome.It started when I traded him a bottle of wine for fresh pasta,But soon we’re sharing a lot more than food and stories.
With nobody else around, the big, luxurious hotel becomes our playground.

Getting frisky in the lobby, then fooling around in the parlor. Can we find a way to return home together?
Or will our sizzling quarantine fling run its course?

ONLY YOU is a standalone contemporary romance full of humor, suspense, and sizzling love. And of course, a guaranteed HEA!

Only You

Forced proximity pandemic romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😔😃😤🥰

The heroine: Molly Carter – she owned a small clothing shop in Indiana. She was going on a trip with her three best friends to Italy. Though she loved her friends, they would want to drink wine and flirt with handsome Italian men, while she was more interested in the rich history of the region. She flew out a few days early to tour the city of Rome. Molly is staying at the Residencia Al Gladiatore hotel and was surprised when her tour was canceled, and she was told she couldn’t leave the hotel because of a virus outbreak.

The Hero: Donovan Russo – he is from Boston and was between jobs, attending an Italian cooking school. He was on the tail end of his trip to Rome and was planning on going on a tour of the city. However, when he found out that his tour was canceled, then his plane was grounded, he immediately left the hotel to stock up on supplies. Luckily, he had a suite with a kitchenette, so he got a bunch of groceries.

The Story: When the entire country goes into lockdown due to a viral pandemic, most of the workers in the hotel stay at home as well. It turns out that Molly and Donovan are the only two guests who hadn’t been scared off by news of the flu-like illness moving across the world and they end up stuck in the hotel during lockdown. They have adjoining rooms and when Molly is hungry and smells all the delicious food being cooked next door, she passes a note under the door to her neighbor and exchanges a bottle of wine for some of his cooking. Especially since the hotel was only providing her with a sandwich a day.

I liked the premise of this book, the forced proximity aspect. Though I think they took the six feet apart stance a bit too far. I mean they both came from places that had no instances of the virus and the virus hadn’t made it to Rome at the time of lockdown, so after a few days with no symptoms, I would expect that neither of us would be contagious and I would just spend time together without worrying about staying six feet apart.

Aside from that, I liked the idea of living in an abandoned hotel. They could swim in the pool, work out in the gym, watch tv in the lobby, and there was even a bar with pool tables. Of course, most of those places were closed, but they found the keys in the manager’s office and were pretty much able to do whatever they wanted. I would think that would be all kinds of fun and much better than my lockdown during Covid.

The story was cute, the characters were likable. Though I kind of wished that Donovan would have been a bit more mysterious or dangerous. It was all pretty vanilla if you know what I mean, and I am not just talking about the intimate scenes.

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