My summary: Zara is expecting her boyfriend to propose and is stunned when, instead, her boyfriend dumps her out of the blue. She’s a personal shopper and her family is basically hockey royalty, but she has zero interest in the game. When her ex announces an engagement shortly after their break up, Zara tweets her ex’s hockey idol and asks him to crash her ex’s wedding with her. To her surprise, Evan responds. What starts as fake dating to make the ex jealous quickly turns serious, as Evan falls for Zara and she too begins to realize her feelings are real. 

My thoughts: This one was not good for me. I found it to be really quite terrible actually. I discovered it after seeing the author share a reel about it on Instagram, and it was on Kindle Unlimited, so I immediately downloaded it without looking too much into it. Right off the bat, some sentences were so poorly structured that I actually wondered if this was a real author or if AI wrote it. And when I went back to find the reel that hooked me into it, there’s even a typo in the reel. So, all red flags that I missed, my bad. Alas, I did not DNF it because I’m basically incapable of quitting any book I’ve started. The writing is flat, simplistic, and very repetitive. It’s very choppy feeling, with weird time jumps and then backtracks, especially when switching between the two POVs. There’s zero depth of characters and no real character development. I hung in there hoping the smutty parts would at least make the rest worth it, but those parts also disappointed. I didn’t hate some of the hockey descriptions of play during the game, but other than that, I was pretty annoyed the whole time while reading. The strife portions were really superficial and then instantly worked out within one or two sentences, so why even bother? But this author has written a ton of books and they seem to be rated decently enough on Goodreads and StoryGraph, so perhaps it’s just me here.