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TROPES

🍕 Brother’s Best Friend

🍕 Sports Romance

🍕 Friends to Lovers

🍕 Dual POV

Anyone that knows me knows I’m not a fan of football and sports romances can be a struggle for me. I love that in this one it wasn’t a rinse and repeat of us watching the MMC’s football games at school and the focus is more on how the sport has impacted the MMC Cameron’s life rather than just watching him play. It was an awesome balance of why the sport has controlled so much of his life without all that exposition coming out through an important game. 

I love that this whole story takes place over spring break. It is the perfect excuse to force two people back together and cause tension while also giving them the time to explore it. Cameron and Maddie attend different universities, and it was nice that rather than see things play out across a screen or from afar, they were squashed back together during spring break just like they always are. 

There were a lot more chapters from Cameron’s POV than I was expecting, which was great. I feel like, even in dual POV stories, the time is still spent more with the FMC. I’m a fan of getting to be in both heads equally, and I love that when we are in this story, it is usually for more than a single chapter at a time. Often it was two or three chapters before a POV switch, so I felt like I really got to know the characters and their thoughts throughout the book.

And, I love Maddie and Cameron’s dynamic. While it takes them a minute to find their groove again, their love and appreciation for each other is clear.