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Shenanigans by Sarina Bowen Published by Tuxbury Publishing LLC on March 15, 2022
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Sports
Pages: 364
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What I meant to do in Vegas: Let my hair down for once and celebrate winning a medal at my first women's hockey all-stars competition.
What I actually did: Got senior prom drunk and woke up married to Brooklyn's star winger, the great Neil Drake.
He's the heir to a billion dollars, and I barely survived my childhood. Our friendship is based strictly only on hockey, takeout food and smack talk.
And now holy matrimony. Although we both know it can't last, especially once his evil family gets wind of our Vegas shenanigans...
Contains: Meddling teammates, meddling parents, ugly jewelry and a pretend-kiss that nearly sets the world on fire.
A new book in Sarina Bowen's USA Today bestselling series!
Sarina Bowen’s Brooklyn Bruisers and Bombshells series are amongst my favorites! Shenanigans is a fantastic addition to the series, with well developed characters who will make you laugh, cry, sigh, and want to throw your book against the wall. ~ JavaGirl – Simply Love Books
I love Sarina Bowen’s Brooklyn Bruisers series, and am thrilled there is now a women’s team, The Brooklyn Bombshells. I even like how she points out the disparity between men’s and women’s sports. The women of the Bombshells all have second jobs in order to support themselves, and don’t live in the Million Dollar Dorm, the expensive condo building many of the Bruisers, including Neil, call home.
I have mixed feelings about Shenanigans, mostly because Charli isn’t an easy heroine to love. In fact, she’s very frustrating. She is strong, opinionated, stubborn, and independent, mostly because she’s had to be all those things in order to survive. Neil is also a little frustrating, he’s super sweet, thoughtful, generous, concerned about the environment, kind of a big goofball, but he doesn’t always say the right thing, which doesn’t work well with a woman like Charli whose defenses are always up, and who never wants to be a burden to anyone.
I enjoyed watching the progression of their relationship from enemies to friends to falling in love and getting their well-deserved HEA, but sometimes I wanted to yell at Charli to stop being so stubborn and to let people who care about her lend a helping hand. We don’t really learn the extent of reasons for her lack of trust until the end, but her reasons are valid.
Navigating their fake, but legal, marriage, his family, her family, their hockey schedules, her stubborn resistance and insistence that nothing in her life would ever go her way had its ups and downs, but, was ultimately, worth the ride.
There were so many funny, sweet, and sexy moments that went a long way toward making me forgive the rough ride Ms. Bowen took us on.
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About Sarina Bowen
Sarina Bowen’s contemporary and LGBT romance novels have hit the USA Today bestsellers list twenty times. Formerly a Wall Street derivatives trader, Sarina holds a BA in economics from Yale University. She lives in New Hampshire with her family, nine chickens, and far too much hockey gear.