AUTHOR: Amy Award GENRE: Sports Romance PAGES: 296 pages RELEASED: 28 September 2023 SERIES: The Cocky Kingmans #1 SYNOPSIS: Always the nerdy girl, never the girlfriend. Until her cocky best friend and his *ahem* rooster take charge. Look, I've had it bad for the girl with all the curves next door forever. She turned me down in high school and since I'm not a total douchecanoe, I lusted after her all by myself in my shower, and we stayed just friends for years. Now she's the adorkable librarian next door and I'm the star quarterback of the best pro football team in the league. So when she asks me to be her fake date to her all-girls school reunion I am totally down to show her off to the mean girls who bullied her back then so they can see just how incredible she is. I'll be the best boyfriend they've ever seen. The best fake boyfriend that is. Until I find out from her slightly-stalkery classmates that she still has her v-card. I don't see how that is even possible. Not with how sexy and sweet she is. Could it be because she knows she belongs with me? Faking it with the swoony QB you’ve been friends with forever…
With her high school reunion coming up, curvy librarian Trixie is dreading being back in the same room as the Queen Bees, the girls who made her high school experience hell. She wouldn’t even be going if her best friend hadn’t roped her onto the planning committee. After attending an event with her Mustangs Quarterback best friend and neighbour Chris, her photo is splashed all over the papers, resulting in the Queen Bees thinking she won Chris at a bachelor auction, because why would someone like Chris want to go out with someone like Trixie. In the moment, Trixie admits that Chris is her boyfriend, going home to then ask him to be her fake date to the reunion. What Trixie doesn’t know is that Chris has been pining for Trixie since the pair were kids. Chris suggests they practice being a couple so they look more believable, but their fake dates are anything but fake for Chris as he tries to show Trixie just how he feels about her. Okay yes, I totally just picked this up because of the title and the cover, but it was such a good decision - whoever said you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover was wrong! Amy has concocted a fun, swoony and spicy read that sets up what is set to be a super fun companion novel series. Chris and Trixie had such a fun relationship, from their friendship to their partially fake relationship to realising they wanted each other forever. You could feel how strong their connection was and that they had a long history of being in each other’s lives. And the lack of third-act breakup despite the challenges the pair had to overcome was much appreciated! As much as I ADORED Chris and Trixie’s relationship, I LOVED how Amy tackled body and sex positivity, and both internalised and externalised fatphobia. Despite everything, Trixie was able to be confident with who she was and love herself, and stand up forever to those who tried to bring her down. And with the inclusion of her mother being a former porn star turned sex educator, there is so much positivity around female sexuality. With so many Kingman siblings, it took a little to figure out who was who, but I’m excited to keep following this family as each brother gets their own swoony and spicy romance and HEA! The Kingmans are such a fun family and I can’t wait to see that fun continue, while also getting to see more of Chris and Trixie. Get down and dirty with the boy next door in this swoony and spicy romance that’ll have you wanting to join the inner circle of the Mustangs by becoming a cowgirl. |
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