Words I Write Crazy: Week 7 Reviews: The Risk, The Play, The Play's Extended Epilogue, The Dare

Saturday, February 18, 2023

Week 7 Reviews: The Risk, The Play, The Play's Extended Epilogue, The Dare

From Goodreads:

THE RISK takes you back to the world of hot hockey players, feisty heroines, bro banter, and steamy scenes...

Everyone says I'm a bad girl. They're only partly right—I don't let fear rule me, and I certainly don't care what people think. But I draw the line at sleeping with the enemy. As the daughter of Briar's head hockey coach, I'd be vilified if I hooked up with a player from a rival team.

And that's who Jake Connelly is. Harvard's star forward is arrogant, annoying, and too attractive for his own good. But fate is cruel—I require his help to secure a much-coveted internship, and the sexy jerk isn't making it easy for me.

I need Connelly to be my fake boyfriend.

For every fake date…he wants a real one.

Which means this bad girl is in big trouble. Nothing good can come from sneaking around with Jake Connelly. My father would kill me, my friends will revolt, and my post-college career is on the line. But while it's getting harder and harder to resist Jake's oozing sex appeal and cocky grin, I refuse to fall for him.

That's the one risk I'm not willing to take.

From Goodreads:

What I learned after last year's distractions cost my hockey team our entire season? No more screwing up. No more screwing, period. As the new team captain, I need a new philosophy: hockey and school now, women later. Which means that I, Hunter Davenport, am officially going celibate…no matter how hard that makes things.

But there's nothing in the rulebook that says I can't be friends with a woman. And I won't lie—my new classmate Demi Davis is one cool chick. Her smart mouth is hot as hell, and so is the rest of her, but the fact that she's got a boyfriend eliminates the temptation to touch her.

Except three months into our friendship, Demi is single and looking for a rebound.

And she's making a play for me.

Avoiding her is impossible. We're paired up on a yearlong school project, but I'm confident I can resist her. We'd never work, anyway. Our backgrounds are too different, our goals aren't aligned, and her parents hate my guts.

Hooking up is a very bad idea. Now I just have to convince my body—and my heart.

From Goodreads:

Demi and Hunter Bonus epilogue + Hollis and Rupi

From Goodreads:

Get ready for another binge-worthy romance from New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy!

College was supposed to be my chance to get over my ugly-duckling complex and spread my wings. Instead, I wound up in a sorority full of mean girls. I already have a hard time fitting in, so when my Kappa Chi sisters issue the challenge, I can't say no.

The dare: seduce the hottest new hockey player in the junior class.

Conor Edwards is a regular at Greek Row parties…and in Greek Row sorority beds. He's the one you fall for before you learn that guys like him don't give girls like me a second glance. Except Mr. Popular throws me for a loop—rather than laughing in my face, he does me a solid by letting me take him upstairs to pretend we're getting busy.

Even crazier, now he wants to keep pretending. Turns out Conor loves games, and he thinks it's fun to pull the wool over my frenemies' eyes.

But resisting his easy charm and surfer-boy hotness is darn near impossible. Though I'm realizing there's much more to Conor's story than his fan club can see.

And the longer this silly ruse goes on, the greater the danger of it all blowing up in my face.

My Review:
Oh, these were such fantastic reads! I loved the original series, and the first book in this one, and I couldn't get enough of this hockey team and the people connected to it! They have such great romances, with hilarity, and some serious moments, that work so well!

The Risk, we saw Brenna and Jake's meeting, and some of their early interactions. So I was really pumped to see their story, because the whole situation where she's the Briar's team's coach's daughter, and he's Harvard's star player, it had so much potential for drama, and when you add in the fake dating alongside real dating, it was so fantastic to read!

I'm glad that Hunter got a book, he did really have feelings for Summer, and so that he got his own story and his own romance was really great! I really enjoyed him and Demi, and how he was trying to avoid sex and dating...well, life and the author had other plans!

The dare, well, the fact that she's dared to basically hook up with Conor, it was another situation rife with drama! That he goes along with it, well, thumbs up to him, to stick it to these people who weren't kind to her. I loved them together!

Loved reading these books, and I can't wait to read more by Elle Kennedy!

Author: Elle Kennedy
Series: Briar U #2, 3, 3.5, 4
Read: February 14th, 14th, 14th, 15th, 2023
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love her writing and this series, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Books, and The Dare is a End of Series 2023 Book!
Publisher: Elle Kennedy, Inc.
Published: February 18th 2019, October 7th 2019, 2019, June 16th 2020

The Risk: