What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay there—especially when your best friend becomes your husband.
The Proposal Play by Lauren Blakely
Love & Hockey Book 3
Release: January 8
💒Marriage of Convenience
👥Brother’s Best Friend
⏰Long Time Best Friends to Lovers
💍Marriage Pact
🏆Player Charity Auction
💜Found Family
🏒Hockey Romance
❤️It’s Always Been You
🔟He’s Been Falling in Love with Her for Ten Years
🐶They Adopt a Dog
About THE PROPOSAL PLAY:
My plan when I win a date in Vegas with my brother’s hockey star best friend? Poker and go to sleep early. Instead, I wake up with a ring on my finger and the sexy athlete naked in my bed.
But Asher’s my best friend too so we’ll get this annulled and laugh about this secret for years to come.
Trouble is our wedding pics went viral overnight.
Now everyone thinks we’re a real couple. We race back home, where I’ve just landed the big art commission of my dreams and he’s launching a sports charity so we need to look like we meant to tie the knot.
Easy enough. We’ll claim we’ve been secretly in love, while staying in separate rooms for the rest of the hockey season.
The last thing either one of us wants is to ruin a decade-long friendship by falling into bed again.
But I experience a new side of my husband at home. He cooks for me, encourages me…and buys me so many toys.
And, it’s more fun to share your toys with a friend.
We’re just enjoying temporary marital benefits.
Except, the more times he calls me his wife, the more I start to wonder if Asher was ever pretending?
And if my heart is ready to take the biggest risk of all.
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The Proposal Play by Lauren Blakely
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
🎧🎧AUDIO & eBOOK REVIEW 🎧🎧
The ARC and ALC for this title landed in my inbox on the same day back on the 20th of December and that’s when the holidays became a really great time for me! LOL So I read the ARC before Christmas and let it sit in my head for a while until this past Sunday when I jumped on the ALC. Listen, I love playing the *which format is better than the other if one is game* with myself but this time was tough. They’re not equal in my opinion but I think (remember this is just my opinion) when you have a lengthy(ish) story paired with outstanding narrators, the story almost always doesn’t seem long(ish) at all and it happened for me this time. I won’t go as far as saying the story dragged in places because it didn’t, but it was a loooooong read and the 14 hours this story was in my ears fleeeew by like nothing! So yeah, that’s my take, do with that information what you will :)
Now, about this story … How Lauren keeps entertaining at the level that she does with consistency will forever be a mystery to me, but she does, and its glorious! I’m not gonna lie and say every story I’ve read by her has been my thing, but it’s rare when they are and I’m in awe every time it happens. This is one of those stories that you fall into easily because the storyline is easy, and it just works organically without dramatics and shenanigans. Feel me? It’s two friends who are more to each other even though they don’t realize it as they move thru life until they do. Like I said, easy. It’s the kind of story that if you were watching it as a movie you’d be thinking “aww” at every turn. It’s a feelgood story that’s very low on angst and very high on friendship and romance. This is how’d I’d like my journey to HEA (if I was on one) to unfold. I really loved it. It’s one of my favorites of Lauren’s thus far.
Vanessa Edwin and Robert Hatchet did nothing but elevate this story and make every single thing I’ve mentioned about the story exponentially better! That sounds really simplistic for how I feel about their performance, but it’s the best I can come up with LOL. They were so in sync with each other it was ridiculous! Their duet performance was flawless without a single hiccup! Between my love for Lauren’s word wizardry and these two’s performance, it was a glorious holiday for me! Lol
The Proposal Play by Lauren Blakely
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This series keeps on delivering – I love a good friends to lovers story, and Maeve and Asher’s friendship turn real relationship was both hilarious as it was sweet. Maeve pure chaos as far as I’m concerned. But she was loyal and loved fiercely so much so that she ends up winning a date with her best friend. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? Wrong..
When one impulsive moment turns everything around, they need to make a plan for them to get all they ever wanted. But spending additional time together both in and out of bedroom soon revels that there were always filings involved and this time they need to play for keeps.
One more couple down and one more story to add to my pile of Lauren Blakelys favorite books.
***Review copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads Blog***
READ THE EXCERPT:
It’s a soulful, lingering kiss that thrums deep in my bones. She’s soft in my arms, her breath gusting across her lips. A whimper crosses them too, and it sounds like a plea for more.
I want to swallow all her sounds, let them lead me on into the night.
Because they are not platonic.
They are not friendly.
They are unbearably sexy and needy.
Maeve Hartley tastes incredible, and this kiss rattles through my entire body, touching every damn corner of me. I don’t let go. As I kiss her more deeply, I’m struck with a cold, new clarity. It wasn’t merely affection I felt all along. It wasn’t simply lust either. It’s a whole lot more than basic attraction.
I’m wildly, annoyingly obsessed with my best friend.
Otherwise known as…my wife.
ABOUT LAUREN BLAKELY: A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s cute but spicy. Lauren likes dogs, cake, and show tunes and is the vegetarian at your dinner party.
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