Keeper by Amy Daws

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Title: Keeper
Author: Amy Daws
Series: Harris Brothers #3
Published by: Indie
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Format: ebook
Pages: 294
Genres: Sports Romance, Romance, Contemporary
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My rating:

Blurb:

They were best friends until they became roommates.

Booker Harris has spent the last several years pushing himself to become the best goalkeeper in the Championship League. Tired of living in the shadows of his headline-splashing brothers, he has finally carved a path of his own.

As a child, Poppy McAdams was content in her own little make-believe world, until the boy next door with dimples and pained eyes came barreling into her makeshift fort demanding all her attention.

Best friends for most of their lives, everything changes when Poppy abruptly leaves London for University.

Now she is back, and gone is the awkward girl from Booker’s youth. She has been replaced by a stunning woman with secrets. Secrets that Booker is desperate to know.

Sharing a bedroom wall with your best friend from childhood quickly turns to anything but sweet and innocent.

My Review:

4 stars — Maybe even 4.5, still deciding.

Poppy’s poop jokes and that kind of humour felt out of place.  Don’t know why.  I’m not opposed to that humour, it just didn’t fit for me.

I LOVED Poppy’s quirks and generally sunny outlook.  She was that strange mix of insecure and confident that I love (because I can relate).  I think so many of us struggle between loving who we are, but then being made to feel insecure because of others.  I was glad to see her mostly embrace who she was.  I struggled with her a bit with her not understanding Booker and what was holding him back.  She was very much in her own head with a lot of that — so absorbed in her feelings that she didn’t see how Booker’s past had shaped him.  But then again, not many people seemed to see what Booker was feeling.

I saw some other reviews that were upset with Booker for his denial.  But given that it was a denial born of childhood insecurities, I kind of got it.  He was completely hung up on the words, and his irrational logic about it all, that I got it a bit more.  I mean, it was silly — but that’s childhood shiznit for you.  It doesn’t make sense.  I loved that in general he was a pretty sweet thoughtful guy, Poppy just brought out all these feelings in him.  I loved that he came into his own by the end of the book, and finally stood up to his family and showed them who he was, not who they thought he was.

They were epically sexy together.  I mean, there was so much tension between them, it was just hot.  And all the frustration surrounding their relationship caused by Booker’s willful denial just ramped that up.

Andrew was so bizarre.  I both loved who he ended up being, but he also baffled me.  Some of those jokes felt inappropriate at times, but it’s kind of like how I didn’t get some of Poppy’s humour.  Might just be me and my own hang ups, you know?

I’m super curious about all the other books now, but not sure how I will enjoy Cam and Tan’s because of the whole manwhore thing.  I’m not huge on that stuff.  But I do like this view at the epilogue, so I’m definitely going to be giving it a chance.

SIDENOTE: I read this book almost a year ago, and then forgot to post this review.  So I definitely can’t decide between 4 and 4.5 now.  I’ll stick with 4 since it was my first instinct.