By Tessa Bailey
Big Shots Book 3
Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨
Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Pub date: 2/4/2025
Blurb
When professional hockey player Sig Gauthier’s car breaks down and his phone dies, he treks into a posh private country club to call a tow truck, where he encounters the alluring Chloe Clifford, the manic pixie dream girl who captivates him immediately with her sense of adventure and penchant for stealing champagne.
Sparks fly during a moonlight kiss and the enamored pair can’t wait to see each other again, but when Sig finally arrives to meet his dad’s new girlfriend over dinner, Chloe is confusingly also there. Turns out the girlfriend is Chloe’s mother. Oh, and they’re engaged.
Sig’s dream girl is his future stepsister.
Though the pair is now wary of being involved romantically, Chloe, a sheltered harp prodigy, yearns to escape her controlling mother. Sig promises to teach her the ins and outs of independence in Boston—but not inside his bedroom. They both know there can never be more than friendship between a famous hockey player and his high-society, soon-to-be stepsister. But keeping their relationship platonic grows harder amid the developing family drama, especially knowing they were meant for so much more…
Category: Sports Romance
Read if you Like:
🏒 Future step-siblings?
🏒 Instalove
🏒 Hockey romance
🏒 Slowburn
My Thoughts:
This book is like a delicious dessert. Did I feel it was a wonderful reflection of the typical experience people have with romance? No. Did I thoroughly enjoy every second of it? Yes!
Chloe and Sig have an immediate and all consuming connection. Instalove doesn’t always work for me but Tessa Bailey wrote it so well I totally bought it. I loved watching Chloe learn to be independent. I also loved how much she cared about Sig. Her at his hockey games screaming at the refs cracked me up!
If you hate instalove or taboo elements this might not be for you. I personally appreciated the pining the taboo element created since we all know no one writes pining like Tessa! I’m also really excited for the next book in the series which I wasn’t sure would be coming but it looks like it will be!
Thanks to Avon books for providing me with an arc! All opinions are my own.
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