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My Review:Title: Boyfriend
Author: Sarina Bowen
Series: Moo U #0
Published by: Indie
Release Date: October 12, 2021
Format: Audio ALC
Narrator: Jason Clarke, Emma Wilder
Length: 7 hours and 6 minutes
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Sports Romance
Source: the author
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2021 Audiobook Challenge, Lenoreo's 2021 COYER Fall
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My rating:
Blurb:A new hockey player to steal your heart this fall...
The dreamiest player on the Moo U hockey team hangs a flyer on the bulletin board, and I am spellbound:
Rent a boyfriend for the holiday. For $25, I will be your Thanksgiving date. I will talk hockey with your dad. I will bring your mother flowers. I will be polite, and wear a nicely ironed shirt…
Everyone knows it’s a bad idea to introduce your long-time crush to your messed-up family. But I really do need a date for Thanksgiving, even if I’m not willing to say why. So I tear his phone number off of that flyer… and accidentally entangle our star defenseman in a ruse that neither of us can easily unwind.
Who knew that Weston's family was even nuttier than mine? He needs a date, too, for the most uncomfortable holiday engagement party ever thrown.
There will be hors d'oeuvre. There will be faked PDA. And there will be pro-level awkwardness…
Boyfriend is a full-length book for Weston and Abbi!
I received a free copy through the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.
4 or 4.5 stars — Dudes, I seriously enjoyed this book, and yet this review is going to be subpar. I’m still in one of those modes, you know? I can’t even decide how to rate this one…I hate these book moods.
Honestly though, the book can be summed up as deliciously cute.
Weston was adorable, strangely dorky and sexy at the same time. I thought it was spot on when Abby observed he put on a happy face to help cope with his family shiznit.
Abby was the perfect amount of self-deprecating without going over the top. She was so caught up in trying to survive, I don’t think she saw herself quite clearly, or gave herself enough credit.
There was a great connection between the two of them, it was palpable. I felt their mutual attraction, but I liked seeing them connect on other levels first. It was wonderful to see how comfortable they were with one another after such a short period of time. And when the steamy stuff started? Hells yes!
I loved the little bits of Moo U hockey we got to see, including characters that have their own stories later in this series. I still really want Cooper’s story, even more so now.
I’m not sure if I was satisfied with how the Price stuff worked out. I knew it was coming, and maybe I wanted Abby to go guns blazing…but this was more realistic unfortunately.
Actually, mixed with all the cute there was a lot of very real moments for both of them — dealing with family drama of all kinds.
Both narrators were solid. Great emotion, great pacing, great voices.
See? Subpar review for what was an adorable story. Ah well. You get what you get!
COYER Scavenger Hunt #22: Read a book with a one word title
This was a good review! No subpar here. Deliciously cute is a great way to describe it. I also loved it.