Book 4 (Briar U series): read out of order in 2025 which was fine it's a stand alone
Taylor is in a sorority she lives off campus and has to occasionally get together at the house with the other sisters for group meetings and elsewhere for events (like fund raiser dances and parties). Taylor is a beautiful girl but is very body conscious and throughout the book battles with her own inner thoughts, even though everyone else basically just says she has super big boobs and is a bit curvier, she's not an unhealthy weight but discusses covering up her body with baggy clothes to hide better.
Connor Edwards is a hockey player who transferred from the west coast and is of course super hot and has ladies fighting to get near him, he has been around the campus with many of them and is known to not have any serious relationship lasting longer than a month max.
During a party Taylor is dared by her sorority sister to get Connor to go upstairs with her for spicy times... how is she supposed to do that he's the hottest guy she's ever seen in real life she is going to have to be bold and just ask him knowing that these "sisters" gave her this dare in order to humiliate her knowing that Connor is going to turn her down flat... only he doesn't.
Connor has been bored with the different women just wanting to get with him thinking of him as a piece of meat... he's got feelings too and none of these girls want to know about him as a person they just want to say that they slept with a campus celebrity. When Taylor approaches looking like a deer in headlights he is intrigued... next thing you know he's upstairs and they are talking for hours and end up falling asleep after putting on a production for their waiting audience in the hallway... he doesn't want to make things look bad for either of them after all.
Connor and Taylor decide to keep up with the fake relationship situationship and grow to be friends with benefits. Connor is ashamed of his past where a shady childhood friend is holding something over his head, he's ashamed and thought that this guy was in the past where he left it but he comes back in after finding him in a bar while they are out of town, not wanting to get Taylor involved he temporarily brushes her off and doesn't tell her what's wrong. Taylor is upset about the lack of communication and has some things to say after Connor comes clean about what's going on.
Connor grew up poor and has a lot of insecurities with only being more well off now because his mom married a wealthy guy (who is paying for his college tuition and everything else and he doesn't want to lose that support).
After this first situation is cleared up between our couple... Taylor ends up in a situation where she doesn't communicate with Connor or allow him to decide what he wants to do for himself which is surprising since she was recently upset that Connor wasn't talking to her and now she's doing the same thing to him.
This too ends up getting worked out it was just a bit frustrating that there was so much miscommunication for awhile and back to back with 2 break ups. For the most part I liked the book and the couple, it was fairly repetitive with some of the plot points but I do plan to go back and read the rest of the series.
I did like that Taylor started to stand up for herself more with the mean girls at her sorority, she has a feisty friend there who always had her back but towards the end of the book she started to really hold her own against Queen B Abigail... and Abigail herself even has some changes.
**Possible Spoiler** Taylor kind of irritated me from the book it sounded like she was an average sized woman not a size 2 but like probably a 12 or something with some curves and large breasts but from how she felt about herself at times I thought she was going to be larger... she's fine just the way she is really and she was wanting to praise Connor for not fat shaming her too (like she was doing to herself). Connor did his part to try to make her feel better about herself but several times in the book did it in a way where he was body shaming a different woman's body type (he likes curvier women... not sticks)
What is your favorite Elle Kennedy book? Have you read this series?
*hockey romance *sports romance *college *young adult *virgin MFC *slow burn *some spice
*fake dating --> more *mean girls *miscommunication/ no communication *some humor *banter
*college parties
trigger warnings: Body shaming/negativity, mentions of home invasion, theft, and shady dealings with drug dealers, hazing, cyber crime (revenge porn)
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