Boyfriend by Sarina Bowen Series: Moo U #1
Published by Heart Eyes Press on October 12, 2021
Pages: 265
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Sports Romance
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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!
Boyfriend is pure entertainment packed into a quick read.
I really enjoyed the easy friendship between Weston and Abbi. It was so natural to fall for both these college students. Abbi’s life is challenging, but Weston gives her an outlet for fun. Abbi helps Weston open his slightly jaded heart.
The most common reasons for pretend relationships in the fake dating trope are to get parents to stop nagging a character about their single status or to make an ex jealous. I liked the fact that this book has more practical reasons. Their families are equally crazy, and I liked seeing them navigate the family gatherings; although, I didn’t see the need to pretend around Weston’s brother.
My one complaint is that the professions of undying love are too sudden, but I can overlook that because the rest of the book is such a treat.
Recommended for fans of:
Fake dating
Hockey romance
College romance
Friends with benefits
Chicken wings
About Sarina Bowen
Sarina Bowen is the award-winning author of more than thirty contemporary novels. She has hit the USA Today bestseller’s list nineteen times and counting. Formerly a derivatives trader on Wall Street, Sarina holds a BA in economics from Yale University.
Sarina is a New Englander whose Vermont ancestors cut timber and farmed the north country since the 1760s. Sarina is grateful for the invention of indoor plumbing and wi-fi during the intervening 250 years. She lives with her family on a few wooded acres in New Hampshire.
Sarina’s books are published in over a dozen languages on five continents.
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