Published: March 22, 2022
Length: 251 pages
Format: Kindle Edition
Genre: New Adult
Characters: Auden Harmon and Elliot Reid
POV: dual, 1st person

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:
• sports romance • hockey • coming of age • fake dating • friends to lovers • it’s always been you •

Review

It was good but I expected something more romantic. These two were never in a relationship, only hookups, until the end of the book. Although, I loved the fact that they didn’t sleep with anyone else but them two.

This book starts as YA, but it spans several years, so I would categorize it more as a new adult romance.

“Because I’m pretty sure it’ll be amazing, and I want to be able to tell you so.”

“He has the audacity to laugh at my assurance. “You think you need to kiss a girl to fall in love with her?” “I haven’t kissed her.” “Exactly.”

“But some things are worth the potential for disaster.”

“I want all her firsts. All her middles. And especially all her lasts. “Good.”

Blurb

A lot can happen on a two-week trip to the Canadian wilderness.

Auden Harmon learns her parents’ marriage is officially over. Expected. Accidentally gifts a five-hundred-dollar pen to a stranger. Unexpected.

Neither event wreaks havoc on her life quite like meeting Elliot Reid does. He has eyes the color of the cloudy sky. A slapshot the whole country has an unhealthy obsession with. The uncanny ability to say the exact right thing, right when she needs to hear it.

They stay in touch after she leaves. Swap secrets. Become best friends. Tell each other everything.

Well…almost everything.

It’s a thin line between love and hate. The line between love and friendship with a guy who makes mammoth-sized butterflies swarm your stomach? Practically transparent.

But when he’s made it clear friendship is all he has to offer?

You can never say it.