Only One Bed by Kati Wilde [Review]

Only One bed by Kati Wilde
Format: paperback
Source: purchased
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Date read: January 26, 2025

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Kati Wilde
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Two Enemies. Only One Bed.

Abbie Walker can’t wait to spend two weeks alone in a remote cabin. No overbearing mother. No nagging sister. Just one grumpy cat, a carload of snacks, and a heart full of cheer. It’s going to be the best holiday ever.

Then, in the middle of a blizzard, he shows up.

Not Santa, unfortunately. Instead an injured Reed Knowles stumbles into Abbie’s cabin, ruining her perfect holiday. Abbie has good reason to hate him—and Reed doesn’t like her any better.

But they’re stuck together. And there’s only one bed. So until the snow thaws, they’ve got to bite their tongues, keep each other warm…and maybe, during those cold winter nights, discover their worst enemy is the one person they’ve needed all along.

Thoughts on Only One Bed: Two enemies stuck with one another over the holidays and they have to come to the grudging realization that maybe they're not as enemied as they thought. No lie, I love when two people get snowed in together and come to some harsh realizations and end up making some serious connections during the long winter nights. Oh. Yeah.

But first! First, Abbie and Reed have to snarl and scowl at one another as they settle into their extremely unexpected co-habitation. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately, since they were forced to face some of their old prejudices against one another), a snow storm and Reed's head injury leaves them no choice but to make the best of a bad situation.

Except...it's not all bad. As they spend time together, their walls begin to come down and certain truths begin to come to light. Reed realizes that Abbie's not the harpy he's made her out to be in his head. Abbie realizes that a lot of her notions about Reed were rooted in lies and twisted truths. In other words, neither of them have a real reason to hate the other, just a whole lot of baggage they need to work through in order to be the happiest, healthiest versions of themselves.

A snow storm, extremely complicated family dynamics (on both ends), good food, long nights, a man who finds home in a prickly woman with a sharp tongue, and a lady who has to make some hard decisions to protect her own mental health. Fortunately, Abbie finds out she has Reed to lean on when things get tough. And Reed is lucky enough to figure out that all Abbie's prickles hide a bruised heart. MAN, I liked this one.