Thank you to Lauren Blakely and her team for the advance reader copy of The Boyfriend Comeback, the first book in The Boyfriend Zone series.
Two men, rival football teams, and a pre-season fling that stumbles into something more. Sign me the heck up!
I am a member of Lauren Blakely’s review team, but I stand by my reviews remaining honest and true.
“A sexy, emotionally-charged, rivals-to-lovers, second chance sports romance…
Some men are just off-limits. Like, say, the other pro quarterback in the same city.
When I first hear the news that my preseason fling has been traded to my cross-town rival, I tell myself it’ll be no big deal.
Just like our night together was to him when he stood me up for the second date.
Whatever. I’m over it. What are the chances I’ll even see him that much now?
Except my team’s PR department wants me to play nice with him. Which means I’m doing TV appearances and charity events with the broody, sexy, enigmatic athlete who stares at me both like he hates me and like I’m his last meal.
I’m doing a winning job ignoring those looks.
Until the night he shows up at my door after a game and confesses why he walked away from me…”
Check out my more detailed thoughts below…
- Characters: Our lead characters are Jason and Beck. Jason plays for the San Francisco Hawks and he’s the only openly gay quarterback in the league. You can’t help but like Jason he’s easygoing and quite the charismatic charmer. Beck is the shier one of our pair. He is the quarterback for the rival San Francisco team, the Renegades. He’s bisexual he’s out to people around him but not to the wider Football community. I loved both of these characters as individuals and even more when they would bring out the best in each other.
- Setting: The story is set in San Francisco. San Francisco brought this fun dynamic in this story, the nature of being out and proud. It is a safe city to be out in, but what’s the wider reaction from the league, and sports media? It was cool to see this explored.
- Pacing: Our story starts with a short story prequel that tells the story of their meeting and first hookup. The story really kicks off with Jason butthurt about being ghosted and avoiding Beck for an entire year. Just to have Beck get traded to San Fran that season. Talk about a fun premise, that kicks off such an engaging story.
- Romance: I loved their immediate chemistry. How shy Beck has a crush on Jason and he cannot help himself but make the first move relatively quickly. I loved their intensity, the feel the way our fingers brush kind of intensity. Their encounters were hot and dirty, yet still had this innate sweetness to them. I especially adored their first hookup. They were hot in bed together and it was matched by the intensity of the emotions they felt for each other. It is such a fun read to have characters who cannot stop.
The Boyfriend Comeback receives four out of five stars.
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