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Trope:
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Gloves Off
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 2/4/26 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 2/4/26

Gloves Off

Tropes: Hockey Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Marriage of Convenience

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Boyfriend
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 12/23/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 12/23/25

Boyfriend

Tropes: Fake Dating & Hockey Romance

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Fake Skating
✮✮✮✮, YA Repy White 11/12/25 ✮✮✮✮, YA Repy White 11/12/25

Fake Skating

So I picked up this adorable book without realizing it’s YA…

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Coach
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

Coach

Tropes: Second Chance, Single Dad, Sports Romance

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The Fake Out
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/14/25

The Fake Out

Tropes: Fake Dating, Hockey, Men Who Can’t Stop Giving Gifts

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Stand and Defend
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Stand and Defend

Tropes: Hockey Romance, Dual POV, Friends with Benefits

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The Summer Games
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

The Summer Games

Trope: Sports Romance

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The Au Pair Affair
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

The Au Pair Affair

Tropes: Hockey Romance, Grumpy Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Age Gap

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Play Along
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Play Along

Tropes: Baseball Romance, Fake Marriage, && Lots of Backwards Baseball Hats

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Holding the Reins
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Holding the Reins

Tropes: Cowboy + Sports Romance

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Hard Hitter
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Hard Hitter

Tropes: Sports + Workplace Romance

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Rookie Move
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Rookie Move

Tropes: Sports, Second Chance, Workplace Romance

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Same Time Next Year
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Same Time Next Year

Tropes: Fake Relationship + Sports Romance

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Caught Up
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/13/25

Caught Up

Tropes: Sports + Grumpy Sunshine Romance

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The Baller
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/12/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/12/25

The Baller

Tropes: Sports + Workplace Romance

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Powerless
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25

Powerless

Trope: Friends to Lovers + Sports Romance

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Blushing in the Big Leagues
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/11/25

Blushing in the Big Leagues

Tropes: Slow burn + Sports Romance

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Three Strikes and You're Mine
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/9/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/9/25

Three Strikes and You're Mine

Tropes: Slow Burn + Sports Romance

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The Right Move
BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/9/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮✮✮ Repy White 10/9/25

The Right Move

Tropes: Forced Proximity, Fake Dating, Sports Romance

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Mile High
BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/9/25 BRAD, ✮✮✮ Repy White 10/9/25

Mile High

Tropes: Forced Proximity, Enemies to Lovers, Sports Romance

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This book was funny and cute and exactly what the doctor ordered! A non-cheesy rom-com packed with lots of feelings set in the book world!

We meet Ciara Sheridan when she’s stuck with a serious case of writer’s b
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(3.5/5, romantasy) 
Shield of Sparrows Book #2 (trilogy)
WHEW, this book was a whirlwind! Just as many BR&B readers had cautioned, this is a slow burn romantasy, slow burn not in the romantic sense but in the world-building sense. You hav
⭐️⭐️💫(2.5/5, romance)
I so badly wanted to love this, but it was just not for me!

I can totally do a more heavy and emotional romance (see my review for The Best Worst Thing!).

I am fine with a story that’s less of a big romance and more of
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, romance)

This romance really took me by surprise! Great banter, deeply emotional, and well written. A romance that feels very real. Not a rom-com, definitely a “rom-dram”.

Our leading woman, Nicole Speyer, has been struggl
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(5/5, fiction)

I was just totally gobsmacked by this book! Brilliant, biting, and impossible to look away from. This is not a light and fluffy read! It had me running the full gamut of emotion. Rage & stress were the emotional frontrun

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