A review by sarahs_spoilers
A Favor for a Favor by Helena Hunting

4.25

🚨 This is not a review. It’s a list of plot events to help me remember the story. Spoilers abound! 🚨

🌶️🌶️ 1/2

Tropes:

• Hockey Romance
• Enemies to Lovers
• Forced Proximity
• Grump vs Sunshine
• Interconnected Standalone
• Neighbors
• Third Act Breakup
• Funny Banter
• Audiobook (Jacob Morgan and Erin Mallon)
  
  
• Stevie: Feisty; sharp-witted; caught boyfriend cheating on her and had to find a new place to live; physiotherapist; brother is famous NHL player and she moves into his apartment; thinks Bishop is a manwhore 
• Bishop: Grumpy; judgemental; across the hall neighbor; enemies with brother; thinks Stevie is his side piece; lives with his brother, who has diabetes
• Bishop gets hurt and him and Stevie strike a deal - She will help him with physio to get him back on the field sooner and she'll get to say she's rehabbed an NFL player
• Now they are around each other all the time and start to become friendly; Stevie learns that his brother is the manwhore, who also has diabetes (and doesn't take care of himself) and that Bishop takes care of him financially
•  Very enemies to lovers with a sloooww burn and crazy sexual tension (he walks around in his silly underwear and she walks around in tight yoga shorts and sports bra to get back at him)
• She keeps extra insulin at her house in case Tyler can't find his and takes care of him when Bishop isn't around
• He intimidates the F out of Joey when he tries to talk to/get back with Stevie

“My jerkwad neighbor is well endowed. Not in a terrifying “Do you shoot porn?” kind of way but more of a “That would be a welcome stretch.”

“Everyone has a demon or two, Stevie. You just gotta learn how to live with them and find other people who think all your good parts outweigh the bad.”

“You’re being weird. And not like pineapples-and-olives-on-pizza weird.”

“He’s more persistent than a case of crabs in a rent-by-the-hour motel.”

Dicken Balls 😹 (Bishop's cat!)

"I need you to stop touching me!” 
“Why are you yelling at me?” she shouts back.
“Because you’re half-undressed in my tub,and I’m a guy, and apparently my dick is a fucking sadist. It honestly feels like my balls are on fire right now. A semi has literally never been this painful.” 
“Well, close your damn eyes and think about dead things.”

Bishop is a lot of things: sarcastic, assholey, determined, hotheaded, and a mammoth of a man. But his kiss is all the other parts of him I've gotten glimpses of over the past several weeks: sweet, gentle, soft.