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🌺friends to more
🌺so much pining
🌺just one couch
🌺found family
🌺puns
🌺flirting
🌺so many lol moments
“𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝-𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡-𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩-𝐦𝐞-𝐮𝐩-𝐚𝐥𝐥-𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥-𝐈-𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐠-𝐦𝐲-𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝-𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭-𝐭𝐡𝐞-𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞, 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐨𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.”
omg - this book! i binge read this so hard. it pained me to put it down. i absolutely loved going into brooke and ben’s past and learning how they ended up best friends. what a hilarious gym meet cute! the chemistry and attraction was there from the start but discovering what landed ben and brooke equally in the friend zone was so funny. the way ben just instantly fit in with brooke’s family was so heartwarming, especially as we learn about ben’s upbringing and family life. this glimpse into the past perfectly set up the present day story.
ben, oh ben. poor “in love but doesn’t know it yet” ben. guys, this made for so much angst. i swear for most of the book i was like, “come on already!! please put me out of my misery!!” 😩 — i loved it!! as brooke attempts to get over ben by dating star NFL player trey lewis, it was so satisfying to see ben’s jealous side come out. it made for the funniest embarrassing moments and i loved that it happened to the hero. ben and brooke’s journey to HEA was funny, aggravating, swoony, and ultimately oh-so-satisfying. here are some other things i loved (may be spoilery-beware):
•”we have the same initials.” “that must mean we’re soulmates.”
•allllll the ben puns
•trey lewis — can he get his own story?!
•she hates sequins — “I had never been so innocently violated in my entire life. From that day on, I swore off the sparkly stuff.”
•eat-cutes
•chocolate covered strawberries
•”i live to make you smile.”
•hibiscus plants 🥹
•“A shummer romansh with a shupermodel!”
•the yacht
•ben’s endorsement of brooke
•the epilogue
thank you to the author for an advanced copy. my thoughts are my own.
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One of the best friends-to-lovers stories I've ever read
Brooke Johnson and Ben Jackson had a series of meet-cutes over the years, starting shortly after she graduated from high school. For various reasons they never managed to go on a date, but when they met up again at a New Year's party during Brooke's senior year of college, it seemed like it might finally be their time. Recently single, Brooke wanted nothing more than to escape the party, but Ben convinced her to share a kiss with him before she went, reasoning that it would be bad luck to start the new year without one. It turned out to be a terrible kiss, but Ben enjoyed their conversation so much that he asked Brooke to be friends with him instead. Five years later, they've become best friends and Ben is practically part of the Johnson family. After he supported them through the loss of her mother two years earlier, Brooke's feelings for Ben began to change, and now she's sure she's in love with him. The problem is that she doesn't know how to tell him without messing up their friendship and losing him completely. When sports agent Ben starts dating his client's supermodel sister and decides to set Brooke up with his client, a superstar wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, will that put an end not only to Brooke's secret romantic hopes, but their friendship as well?This was honestly one of the best friends-to-lovers stories I've ever read. I sometimes get annoyed when reading stories featuring this trope because the protagonists could solve most of their problems if they would just talk to each other. That wasn't the case here; not only did Brooke and Ben have a history that included a terrible kiss, but there were also external factors complicating their relationship. I loved the way their friendship grew and deepened over the years, as well as how cute and flirty they were with each other. There was so much pining and jealousy hidden beneath the surface, but the author handled it incredibly well. My heart broke a little bit for Brooke every time Ben told her just how "okay" he was with her dating his client, Trey. He was obviously not okay with it, as evidenced by his awkwardness (and series of hilarious mishaps) whenever he was around Brooke and Trey. It just took him a while to recognize his feelings for what they were.Overall, I adored this book and highly recommend it for all fans of sweet contemporary romance and romantic comedy. While I'm sad that this series has come to an end, I'm very much looking forward to whatever the author writes next.
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