Power Plays & Straight A's

Definitely more of a 3.5 but I'm rounding up.

It's actually been a while since my favorite series by Eden Finley ended, so I was so excited to get into this one. And despite not knowing anything about the coauthor Saxon James and also the fact that I very rarely read NA genre these days, I just couldn't give a hockey romance a miss.

It took me a while to like the awkward and nerdy Zach because I just couldn't follow his thought process. But once the friendship between Zach and Foster developed, I started falling in love with their interactions. And I really loved the fact that it's the nerdy character who is more unsure about the whole long term relationship thing, but the actual jock Foster is cocky but also really sweet, considerate and very sure about what he wants from his career and love life.

It's fun when authors subvert the typical college romance tropes a bit because it definitely makes the proceedings more interesting. The banter is also quite well done (which I kinda was expecting because it's Eden) but on the whole, the book was much more on the sweeter side. And there's a very exciting little cameo from the Fake Boyfriend series which just made me miss the whole gang all over again.

To conclude, this is a sweet and fun slightly tropey, slightly not, college hockey romance, and I think it's a good choice for when you just want to be entertained and read about a nice couple. It's still not up there with Eden's previous series but I still think her fans will enjoy this a lot.