ARC Review: The Friend Face Off (Love on Thin Ice #3) by Grace Worthington
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The Friend Face Off
Series: Love on Thin Ice #3
Author: Grace Worthington
Published September 12th 2024 by Red Bird Publishing
Goodreads Synopsis
Getting involved with your brother’s best friend is risky enough. But when he's a hockey player? It's a whole new level of bad idea.
As a ravenous reader, I’ve got a secret: I’m obsessed with hockey romances.
But let me tell you, real life hockey players are nothing like my book boyfriends.
So I threw down the gauntlet on BookTok. I challenged any single guy out there to prove me wrong. Can a real hockey player be as romantic as the ones in my favorite stories?
Enter Dawson Hayes, a goalie with a point to prove and my brother’s best friend. He’s confident he can win me over and take me on the most romantic date of my life.
But there’s a for me to accept, I have to pretend that he’s my fake boyfriend.
And while he’s unfairly gorgeous, he’s also my brother’s teammate and his best friend.
Keeping him in the fake boyfriend zone is the only way to deal with my secret attraction.
Turns out, the line between fake and real isn't just blurry, it’s become impossible to tell the difference when he looks at me with those eyes that say, You’re mine.
DAWSON
The first time I met Emmy, her brother warned me to stay away. As hockey teammates, that made her totally off-limits.
Now I’m back in Emmy’s small town to play hockey, and I can’t resist her dating to find out if any man can be more romantic than the book boyfriends she adores.
Emmy and I are both fiercely competitive, and I’m determined to win her over.
When the moment of truth comes, the chemistry between us turns into something neither of us expected:
A romantic face-off between friends who are insanely attracted to each other.
Now, I’m out to prove to her that you should never judge a book by its cover—or a hockey player when it comes to love.
The Friend Face Off is part of the Love on Thin Ice sweet small town hockey romcom series. It's a brother’s best friend, closed door hockey romcom with fake dating, friends to lovers and You’ve Got Mail vibes. It's a small town romance with all the sizzle and chemistry, but none of the spice.
Goodreads
Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher, via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.
Booktok-er Emmy secretly has an obsessions with hockey romances, but while she may fall heads over heels for the MMCs in her books, she can never imagine falling for a hockey player to be that good in reality. So when her brother's best friend Dawson turns up in Maple Falls, and wants to join her book club, Emmy can't believe it. Dawson is a renowned hockey goalie, but he's always had feelings for Emmy, and wants to prove that he is worthy of her. Dawson's used to winning, and he's not about to lose when it comes to Emmy.
I think this one might have been my favourite of the series. I adore the brother's best friend trope, and it was executed so well in The Friend Face Off. Dawson had known Emmy was it for him ever since they met at the party years ago, but distance had always kept them apart. Now that he's in town for the foreseeable for the hockey tournament, he's about to fight for her, starting with getting Emmy to trust him by learning everything he can about her, and what she likes. Him joining the book club and taking copious notes was swoon worthy, as were the interactions between them via the 'anonymous' booktok channel.
Dates Read:
October 29, 2024
Rating
3 Stars
Series: Love on Thin Ice #3
Author: Grace Worthington
Published September 12th 2024 by Red Bird Publishing
Goodreads Synopsis
Getting involved with your brother’s best friend is risky enough. But when he's a hockey player? It's a whole new level of bad idea.
As a ravenous reader, I’ve got a secret: I’m obsessed with hockey romances.
But let me tell you, real life hockey players are nothing like my book boyfriends.
So I threw down the gauntlet on BookTok. I challenged any single guy out there to prove me wrong. Can a real hockey player be as romantic as the ones in my favorite stories?
Enter Dawson Hayes, a goalie with a point to prove and my brother’s best friend. He’s confident he can win me over and take me on the most romantic date of my life.
But there’s a for me to accept, I have to pretend that he’s my fake boyfriend.
And while he’s unfairly gorgeous, he’s also my brother’s teammate and his best friend.
Keeping him in the fake boyfriend zone is the only way to deal with my secret attraction.
Turns out, the line between fake and real isn't just blurry, it’s become impossible to tell the difference when he looks at me with those eyes that say, You’re mine.
DAWSON
The first time I met Emmy, her brother warned me to stay away. As hockey teammates, that made her totally off-limits.
Now I’m back in Emmy’s small town to play hockey, and I can’t resist her dating to find out if any man can be more romantic than the book boyfriends she adores.
Emmy and I are both fiercely competitive, and I’m determined to win her over.
When the moment of truth comes, the chemistry between us turns into something neither of us expected:
A romantic face-off between friends who are insanely attracted to each other.
Now, I’m out to prove to her that you should never judge a book by its cover—or a hockey player when it comes to love.
The Friend Face Off is part of the Love on Thin Ice sweet small town hockey romcom series. It's a brother’s best friend, closed door hockey romcom with fake dating, friends to lovers and You’ve Got Mail vibes. It's a small town romance with all the sizzle and chemistry, but none of the spice.
Goodreads
Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher, via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.
Booktok-er Emmy secretly has an obsessions with hockey romances, but while she may fall heads over heels for the MMCs in her books, she can never imagine falling for a hockey player to be that good in reality. So when her brother's best friend Dawson turns up in Maple Falls, and wants to join her book club, Emmy can't believe it. Dawson is a renowned hockey goalie, but he's always had feelings for Emmy, and wants to prove that he is worthy of her. Dawson's used to winning, and he's not about to lose when it comes to Emmy.
I think this one might have been my favourite of the series. I adore the brother's best friend trope, and it was executed so well in The Friend Face Off. Dawson had known Emmy was it for him ever since they met at the party years ago, but distance had always kept them apart. Now that he's in town for the foreseeable for the hockey tournament, he's about to fight for her, starting with getting Emmy to trust him by learning everything he can about her, and what she likes. Him joining the book club and taking copious notes was swoon worthy, as were the interactions between them via the 'anonymous' booktok channel.
Dates Read:
October 29, 2024
Rating
3 Stars
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