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3.92 AVERAGE
4.5⭐️
Tyler and Seraphina's relationship is everything! I thought I liked Chase Carter but damn Tyler Donahue is something else! I love the whole brother's best friend/forced proximity trope!
Tyler and Seraphina's relationship is everything! I thought I liked Chase Carter but damn Tyler Donahue is something else! I love the whole brother's best friend/forced proximity trope!
4 ⭐️s!
TYLER FREAKING DONAHUE has my whole heart. I loved him so much, I mean Chase Carter was great but WOOF Ty was top tier.
I also loved the little Chase and Bailey breadcrumbs we got. Like him telling Sera he was going to marry her, ugh swoon.
Tyler was obsessed with Sera in the absolute best ways. Always put her first and tried his best to make sure she was always okay, I loved them as a couple. Their nicknames were also adorable and I LIVE for text chains in books.
-brothers teammate
-forced proximity
-adhd rep
-one night stand
-cute nicknames
TYLER FREAKING DONAHUE has my whole heart. I loved him so much, I mean Chase Carter was great but WOOF Ty was top tier.
I also loved the little Chase and Bailey breadcrumbs we got. Like him telling Sera he was going to marry her, ugh swoon.
Tyler was obsessed with Sera in the absolute best ways. Always put her first and tried his best to make sure she was always okay, I loved them as a couple. Their nicknames were also adorable and I LIVE for text chains in books.
-brothers teammate
-forced proximity
-adhd rep
-one night stand
-cute nicknames
loved this, loved seraphina & tyler. they were so good together & they had a pretty straight sailing relationship apart from her test results & chase finding out. really enjoyed both the characters tho
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Well hello first read of 2024! Did I stay up until 2 am to finish this? Yes, I did!
Tyler and Ser are fun, flirty, adorable and hot all in one. I also enjoyed how the actor potrayed anxiety. The descriptions just hit the mark every time. Another amazing hockey romance by Avery Keelan who has officially become an auto-buy!
Tyler and Ser are fun, flirty, adorable and hot all in one. I also enjoyed how the actor potrayed anxiety. The descriptions just hit the mark every time. Another amazing hockey romance by Avery Keelan who has officially become an auto-buy!
Another very solid hockey romance. A little bit of coming of age, a bunch of romantic tension, a whole lot of fun. would recommend.
I have really mixed feelings about this book.
Overall, I definitely enjoyed it. Sera is the sister of my babe Chase (male lead of the first book in the series, Offside). At the start of the book, girlie is moving into Chase's apartment that he shares with two of his friends for college. What she doesn't know is that one of her new roommates is "Hades", the guy she met in a nightclub and with whom she's had a mindblowing one night stand.
Sera and Tyler are both incredible leads, and I was as invested in both of their individual storylines as I was in their romance. Tyler is a goalie with dreams of making it to the pro levels after college, and he's struggling to find a balance between his ambitions and his personal life. Sera's situation is a little more complex. She's trying to find her place in the world, but she's also juggling her mother's cancer treatments while also getting some concerning health news of her own. In all of this, the relationship between Tyler and Sera is a lifeline for both of them. It doesn't take long for them to rekindle an understanding once they meet again, even though it doesn't immediately turn into a spice fest.
My first "issue" however isn't about what is on the page, but what isn't. Much of Sera and Tyler's earlier interactions revolve around the one night stand--a night so passionate neither of them can stop thinking about it. And yet...we never see it. Not even in a little flashback. This gave me the feeling that the chemistry and tension between Tyler and Sera was more "told" than shown, and it took me a while to buy into their relationship. I did end up loving them by the end, but I would have loved to see at least glimpses of their first meeting given the impact it has on them both.
Another thing I wasn't completely a fan of was the resolution. While the romance ends in a deserved happily ever after, there is one other storyline that didn't resolve with the happy ending I was expecting, and my mood soured quite a bit because of it. I listened to the audiobook, and thankfully there were some bonus chapters (which I believe can normally be found on the author's website) that washed some of that bitterness away.
Spice: 3 (explicit, on page scenes)
Overall, I definitely enjoyed it. Sera is the sister of my babe Chase (male lead of the first book in the series, Offside). At the start of the book, girlie is moving into Chase's apartment that he shares with two of his friends for college. What she doesn't know is that one of her new roommates is "Hades", the guy she met in a nightclub and with whom she's had a mindblowing one night stand.
Sera and Tyler are both incredible leads, and I was as invested in both of their individual storylines as I was in their romance. Tyler is a goalie with dreams of making it to the pro levels after college, and he's struggling to find a balance between his ambitions and his personal life. Sera's situation is a little more complex. She's trying to find her place in the world, but she's also juggling her mother's cancer treatments while also getting some concerning health news of her own. In all of this, the relationship between Tyler and Sera is a lifeline for both of them. It doesn't take long for them to rekindle an understanding once they meet again, even though it doesn't immediately turn into a spice fest.
My first "issue" however isn't about what is on the page, but what isn't. Much of Sera and Tyler's earlier interactions revolve around the one night stand--a night so passionate neither of them can stop thinking about it. And yet...we never see it. Not even in a little flashback. This gave me the feeling that the chemistry and tension between Tyler and Sera was more "told" than shown, and it took me a while to buy into their relationship. I did end up loving them by the end, but I would have loved to see at least glimpses of their first meeting given the impact it has on them both.
Another thing I wasn't completely a fan of was the resolution. While the romance ends in a deserved happily ever after, there is one other storyline that didn't resolve with the happy ending I was expecting, and my mood soured quite a bit because of it. I listened to the audiobook, and thankfully there were some bonus chapters (which I believe can normally be found on the author's website) that washed some of that bitterness away.
Spice: 3 (explicit, on page scenes)
I'm so glad this one wasn't 200 pages too long like the first one, it allowed me to actually enjoy the story. I really like Avery Keelan's writing and I am weak for a heavily tattooed hero.