Review Book: Baby, It's Cold Outside (Novel)

Thinking that Baby, It’s Cold Outside is just a steamy romance about a couple who barricade themselves in a cabin during a stormy winter just to make love and map each other’s bodies?

You couldn’t be further than the truth.

While Ivy and Harrison, our beloved protagonists, did keep themselves as each other’s company for far longer than others expect them to be, what they have is just not about peeling more and more layers of clothes. Instead, they pull back old wounds and face their insecurities, hand in hand, in the metaphor of writing.

Ivy, a New York Times bestselling author, was feeling the worst writer’s block she had ever had during her career. Already pushing back her next book’s deadline twice, she no longer had an excuse to run away from her grilling editor. 

Thus, she made one.

In the name of recuperating and trying to find inspiration, she reserved a room in a far away inn and, basically, ran away from reality.

Well, she tried to. Until she got into an accident during her journey across the mountain.

Luckily for Ivy, she got rescued by Harrison, a former US Army who had lived a hermit life since the death of his three subordinates. Harrison thought he would rescue the dying author and end the story there, but apparently, the finish line refused to settle down.

Ivy was a good judge of character and she saw right through his apathetic façade. She knew he had a traumatizing past to hide. In addition, Harrison soon realized that the character in Ivy’s new book resembled his specific situation a lot.

So now, not only did they get to taste each other’s skin, Harrison and Ivy found themselves peeling one another’s mask. What awaits them is a mutually passionate relationship–one that consumes them both, dizzyingly and maddeningly.

However, is either of them ready for that kind of commitment? Especially when their lives are on various levels of messiness?

Reading through every page of Baby, It’s Cold Outside by Kait Nolan made me feel surprisingly enchanted. While the topic is quite deep–a trauma of life-and-death situation and identity crisis–the author presents it with a lighthearted tone. 

At the same time, Kait doesn’t let the easily digestible writing style take away the story’s significance.

We can see the structure of both Harrison and Ivy’s personalities. How mature they are in treating each other, but also how the recklessness of love terrifies them both.

Baby, It’s Cold Outside is a short, sweet read about two people who confidently know who they are, but still suffer from insecurity and guilt all the same. Seeing them falling in love with each other is like placing two badly-cut pieces of puzzle side by side–they fit, but it takes a little extra time to rotate the puzzle and piece them together and form a bigger picture.

Any relationship takes time and effort. That same rule applies to Harrison and Ivy’s relationship, even when their attraction seems to come out of the blue.

The reason their love can easily ride the wave is because they are both level-headed and patient enough to know when to pull and when to push. When to say sorry and when to chase after the answers. When to forgive and when to set the boundary.

All in all, Baby, It’s Cold Outside by Kait Nolan has been a nice break between all the heavy angst and dramatic stories I’d been reading last year. And looking at how I felt so satisfied after finishing the story, I dare to say that I would place one or two other Kait Nolan’s books in my reading list this year.

For you who also wants to read Baby, It’s Cold Outside, you can purchase the book through these links:

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