Book Blurb:
Is it ever too late to leave the friend-zone?
Hi, my name is Bree Camden, and I’m hopelessly in love with my best friend and star quarterback Nathan Donelson (so is half of America, judging by the tabloids and how much the guy dates). The first step is admitting, right? Except, I can never admit it to him because he clearly doesn’t see me that way, and the last thing I want is for things to get weird between us.
Nothing but good old-fashioned, no-touching-the-sexiest-man-alive, platonic friendship for us! Everything is exactly how I like it! Yes. Good. (I’m not crying, I’m just peeling an onion.)
Our friendship is going swimmingly until I accidentally spill my beans to a reporter over too much tequila, and now the world seems to think me and Nathan belong together. Oh, and did I mention we have to date publicly for three weeks until after the Super Bowl because we signed a contract with...oops, forgot I can’t tell anyone about that!
Bottom line is, now my best friend is smudging all the lines and acting very un-platonic, and I’m just trying to keep my body from bursting into flames every time he touches me.
How am I going to make it through three weeks of fake dating Nathan without anything changing between us? Especially when it almost-sort-a-kinda seems like he’s fighting for a completely different outcome?
Send help.
XO Bree
*Sports Romance (Football) *Wealthy MMC x poor FMC *Football star x ballet dancer
*Best friends forever --> more *long term pining (both sides) *rom-com *Light and fluffy
*Cozy read *Fake dating *Girl next door *Green Flag boyfriend *no spice
*miscommunication/no communication *State Challenge California (Repeat)
Thoughts:
So I haven't really read a lot of the more "popular" books of recent years but picked up this one since I had it in my audible library and hadn't had a chance to get to it yet and needed it for a book bingo card spot for a team competition I'm doing "New Release 2021" while I'm not upset about listening to this book and I think that the narrator's did great... you can't do wrong with listening to Teddy Hamilton (iykyk)... I had a like/dislike time with this book.
Things I enjoyed were the friends to more, while there was no spice in it was a cute and flirty time since our couple had a long term friendship and had both been in love with each other since forever... but both of them were too stubborn/afraid to talk about their real feelings essentially both putting each other in the long term friend zone.
There were a series of funny events throughout and I really enjoyed Nathan's team mates lending a hand to give ideas to help him finally get his dream girl who has been right there the whole time waiting for him to say that he wanted more. A large chunk of this book was both of them wanting the other one to "make the first move" or show them that they wanted more than just being in the friend zone...
So I don't mind a small amount of miscommunication/no communication I'm a big fan of historical romance and that's a big trope for those types of books... but through at least 80% of the book it is back and forth on both sides with the dual POV showing that they both have been so in love with the other one they can't even catch feelings for anyone else longer term and now that they are finally both single and happen to now be in a fake dating situationship after the FMC has a drunken tell your feelings in the bathroom to a reporter of all people... they are now using this as their chance to maybe see if there is something more but doing it covertly like "how would she react if I got closer to her and held her hand" ... all of this was while still not talking about their true feelings gah! someone just tell the other one you love them already so this story can move forward.
The book is over 300 pages and while it was a cute, fluffy and sometimes funny read/listen I think it would have worked much better as a high school rom-com both the lead characters I think were meant to be quirky but came off as in the 13-17 range instead of being almost 30. I could go on more about some other things but this book has over 40,000 reviews so I'm sure that everything possible has already been said about this book.
To finish this one I honestly just started imagining them as 10 years younger and I enjoyed it a lot better 😅 it became one of those cute Disney rom-com's that I used to enjoy when I was in high school.
The only real conflict was one that they were both inflicting on themselves by not having any real conversations about how they felt about each other. But if you are looking for something on the light and easy side you might enjoy picking this one up!
If you've read this one what did you think?
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