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4/5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

“She's my muse. She's my laughter. She's my trigger. She's my desire. But most of all, she's my heart.”

#romance #sports #hockey

Just ok rom com for me. YA set at a university. A lot of racial stuff happening. The love story was sweet though.

Just as spicy as the first book, but it‘s expected. This one follows Russ and Rory, two characters I was already familiar with from the first book. Their vulnerability and honesty with each other made their love story compelling, and I enjoyed watching their relationship grow. The summer camp setting brought back nostalgia—not for the wild counselor romance, but for the carefree magic of camp as a kid. Book # 19 in 2025

1.8⭐️ “ I do, I do, I do love dark academia.” But OMG, this book is so pretentious. Whats sad is I was really looking forward to this read. There were moments where I felt like I was starting to get into this book, and then it would have this long stretch of boring pretentious, BS. And then nothing, and I mean literally, just a bunch of words on a page leading nowhere, kind of nothing. Now I get to go relive this monstrosity w/ my Book Club.

Book 2 in the series was less successful in my eyes than the first book. I liked Logan more than I expected to once we started getting more of his back story. However Grace felt sort of flat & never as interesting as Hannah, maybe because her background was vague. Hannah & Garrett actually stole all the scenes they appeared in.

Overall it felt more like a typical college romance story that I‘ve read before. Not as fresh and fun as The Deal. 3⭐️

Read this last week but I don‘t think I posted a review. I liked this college hockey romance. It has been everywhere and mostly lives up to the hype. Hannah and Garrett have great chemistry with some good banter. I liked the way their friendship developed first.

A low pick & I had fun reading it. Certainly not my favorite hockey romance but good enough that I‘d recommend it for someone looking for a college age hockey romance specifically. 4⭐️

2✨ I really only finished this because it was a book club pick. It had moments that were really interesting, but I really struggled to get into the story. #HTBookClub @Littlewolf1

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I realize I‘m getting to this book so much later than most people, but I absolutely adored it! It was much more emotional than I was anticipating, & Rowell always excels at writing these very realistic characters who I am so invested in.
I know that Rowell also wrote Cath‘s fanfic, but even more than that, I wish there was just more of these characters. Five biggest stars.The audiobook was wonderful, too. I didn‘t want this story to end.

“I believe that having a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.” (Tartt, 1992, p. 46)