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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Hockey romance 🏒
Friends to lovers 💕
Marriage of convenience 💍
I don’t know why but the kissing scene in Vegas was EVERYTHING 😍. I loved Maeve and Asher’s friendship. I think friends to lovers as adult sometimes seems like a stretch especially after 10 years of friendship. Asher’s issues felt like they resolved a little too quickly and didn’t seem necessary to the story.
Friends to lovers 💕
Marriage of convenience 💍
I don’t know why but the kissing scene in Vegas was EVERYTHING 😍. I loved Maeve and Asher’s friendship. I think friends to lovers as adult sometimes seems like a stretch especially after 10 years of friendship. Asher’s issues felt like they resolved a little too quickly and didn’t seem necessary to the story.
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Realizing that friends to lovers is one of my favorite tropes and it was done really well here. I read a lot of sports romances and since hockey seems to be the most popular sport in romance, they tend to blend together. This one really stood out for me and I enjoyed it tremendously. Watching Asher and Maeve realize they have been slowly falling in love over ten years was sweet and lovely. The spice was HOT. Asher's control issues were very relatable for me and got me thinking about how I need to let go of my need to keep my loved ones in bubble wrap.
I seriously love Lauren Blakely. I haven't read a book from her that I didn't adore yet...and I've read a lot of those in the past year. I fully attribute my new love of sports romance, specifically hockey romance, to her Love and Hockey series, which just released the third book, The Proposal Play!
In The Proposal Play, best friends of 10 years, Maeve and Asher, spontaneously wed in Vegas during a whirlwind weekend trip, fulfilling their marriage pact from years ago and heading into their next Great Adventure. They weren't planning on the weekend photos to leak, or to go viral, or to stay married. Between Maeve's rocketing art career and Asher's work on his new non-profit while continuing his pro-hockey career, there isn't a good opportunity to let the world know the marriage was just for fun, or to end it amicably for the public. As Maeve spends more intimate time with Asher, she starts realizing what their friends already know: Asher could actually be in love with her...and she might actually be wildly in love with me him. Navigating friendship, romance and intimacy, careers, self-love, mental health, and grief together shows Maeve and Asher how living life together could be, and maybe they want to keep doing just that. It IS a "friendship on fire." Or maybe they realize this was all a dream and they're better off as friends. Since it's a hockey romance, we know how it ends, but the ride getting there sure is a fun one!
You'll love this book as much as I did if you enjoy hockey romance, friends-to-lovers, he falls first, he's been secretly in love for years, marriage pact, marriage of convenience, forced proximity, spice, and interconnected stories (you could read this without reading the others in the series, but I would recommend it to get the full impact of the character dynamics).
medium-paced