Read in 2025
First off, the cover is super cute! I have been on a
sports romance kick. This book has been on my reading list for a while so I
thought I would give the series a try.
I also was looking forward to reading a book with characters in
their later 20’s and liked that the female lead was a plus sized woman who was
comfortable with her body it's nice to see that represented in the book.
Once I started reading this if I didn't know that our lead
characters were closer to 30 I would have thought they were late teens or early
20's the way the characters are written and the comedy in the book is a bit
more on the immature side, for example from our lead males point of view he is
constantly getting turned on quickly by the female lead doing regular every day
activities like bending over to try to get her rooster out of the road due to this he now
needs to take 12 cold showers to control his banana... seriously a lot of the
male POV is about how he is constantly thinking about sex with her and how over
the years he has tried to get her out of his head by banging other girls but
she's always been on his mind.
Trixie and Christopher were neighbors as children he has had
a crush on her for years, she has always seen them as just friends (but
throughout the story she possibly felt more for him but maybe didn't think that
he would like her like that so squashed those feelings down?). They are
now neighbors again. She is living in her childhood home and our leading guy
has bought up a lot of houses in the neighborhood because he's rich and wants
to have say in who lives near him.
Story starts out with Trixie (a librarian) agreeing to help
set up her high school reunion with her best friend only to find that they are
working on the reunion committee with the school mean girls who are still just as awful as they were in high
school (some people never change I guess). After going to an event with
Christopher (star NFL player for the local team) people (gossip sites) think that they are a
"real" couple and because she doesn't want to let her school bullies
know that they are not together she goes along with it and tells them that he
is her boyfriend.
This is where the fake dating story starts Trixie asks him
to be her pretend boyfriend to the high school reunion, he has other plans
because he wants to prove to her that they could be so good together that she
will remove the fake part of it and change it to straight up dating. She still has her v-card and has limited experience with men due to them all finding out
about her mother's former occupation as a porn star (a not so secret, secret
because everyone knows) and wanting to compare her to her mom.
The story was a light fluffy read with some comedy (a lot of unrealistic things yes, but it is fiction); I feel I would have enjoyed the comedy more in my early twenties. Drama is thrown in with the high school mean girl "queen bee" a creepy manager at the library and a rotten ex-boyfriend and a scandal (that seems to just be glossed over and everything is cool again, I would think it would be a bigger deal but I guess not?). If you can get through some of the cringe worthy parts of this book it’s a somewhat cute story with a happy ever after.
Did you read this series? Which book is your favorite in the series?
*Dual POV *fake dating *friends to lovers
*lead characters in their late 20's *football/sports
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