Reviews with content warning for Infidelity - Right Man, Right Time

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Ollie is a senior at the Vancouver college of journalism. During a night out with her best friend Ross, she has an exchange with her work enemy, candance, and ex bf. To cover her lies, she spots Silas Taters (pro hockey player) and kisses him. Later they come to a mutual fake dating agreement and the drama unfolds.

Not to give anything else away, this book had me giggling and gasping. The banter between Ollie and Silas is *chefs kiss* it is a true romantic comedy and the spice 🥵 Silas has one of the dirtiest mouths and even more surprises up his sleeve. I also love an emotionally available and aware MMC.

Tropes: RomCom, Age gap, hockey, fake dating, third quarter breakup, piercing

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Trigger warnings: cheating, loss of trust

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booklovinbaby's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Rating: 2.5⭐️ | Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Tropes:

🏒fake dating
🏒age gap
🏒pierced 🍆

I really enjoyed the first 75% of this book but then everything went extremely downhill so fast. 😒 This was a solid 4 ⭐️ read until the freaking end.

A senior journalism major, Ollie, is out at a bar one night when she sees her nemeses who now just so happens to be dating her ex. In order to save face in front of her rival and sleazy ex, she lied by saying she’s at the bar with her new boyfriend (who doesn’t exist). When they ask who it is, she approaches a stranger at the bar, Silas, and kisses him to sell the story. Let’s just say the sparks were flying 😋

Silas was in a relationship for 10 years when his ex cheated on him. His ex, wanting to win him back, got a job working for his hockey team. To keep her off his back, he asks Ollie to be his fake girlfriend because it’s a win win for both of them. He gets to avoid his ex, she gets to look good in front of her rival and her ex.

You can see where this story is going! We love a good fake dating trope! 👏 Ollie was a very lovable character! Smart, driven, blunt and funny. Silas obviously had some trust issues to work through, but Ollie was just the girl to help him pick up his broken pieces. Their banter, tension and pining for each other was ✨immaculate✨ (at first)

I’m so dang frustrated with how this book turned out yall!!!! This miscommunication trope was the bane of my freakin existence (and not in the good way like with Anthony and Kate)

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Ollie wrote an article on Silas’s hockey team that got edited *without her consent* to add private details about his personal life, i.e. him being cheated on. Instead of giving the girl he claimed to be so in love with a chance to even explain, he tells her to get out of his life and that she was dead to him. DEAD. TO. HIM.

When Ollie found out the article was edited, she confronted her boss. She lost her job, got kicked out of her major and lost credit for her internship, meaning she couldn’t graduate, and lost her housing *all while also losing the man she loved.* Talk about being down freaking bad dude.

Silas had absolutely zero faith in her, even knowing the kind of woman she was. He finally finds out the truth and decides he’s going to get her back. In the span of less than 10 pages, he goes and wins Ollie back and woopty woo it’s a HEA. Like come ON!! This woman lost EVERYTHING because of this man, and that’s all just forgiven and swept under the rug in so few pages??? That’s such lazy writing to me. He should’ve had to grovel HARD. Not just say oopsie baby sorry about that. UGH.

So disappointing and made me hate this one lol

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I wanted to read this book because I enjoyed Meghan Quinn’s Cane brothers’ series and was wanting to read more of her work. I love hockey romances and I enjoyed the first book in the series, but the second and third book is just so frustrating and annoying and pissed me off. It was so damn long with little plot.

This book has two points of view. The first is Ollie Owens and she is overworked and under-paid and now it’s getting worst, whilst she was trying to enjoy her night out with her best mate, she runs into her nemesis, and she is sleeping with her ex-boyfriend. Now, Ollie is in a state of sheer panic and reaches for the closest guy at the bar and kissed him, and to her delight he was easily the most attractive man she has ever met. The only problem is when she tried to walk away and carry on with her night, he stops her and says three life-changing words . . . “You owe me.” What did this handsome stranger want? A fake relationship to help keep his ex-girlfriend away from him. What she didn’t know is that the person she kissed was professional hockey player Silas Taters. The second point of view is Silas Taters. He is heartbroken, after his childhood sweetheart has been cheating on him for months. He is quiet and he doesn’t trust anyone anymore or let anyone in. This all changed once Ollie entered his life, they have an arrangement that works for both. The college girl keeps his cheating ex who is now working for the team which he plays on. He helps her with her journalling internship. They become fast friend. It wasn’t until Silas started staying the night at Ollie’s dorm that the rules of the arrangement become complicated. Now feelings are involved and even thought they kissed at the right time, Ollie is worried he’s just waiting for the clock to run out.

Again, as with the first book, I loved the bromance between the boys, and I would die for any of them. I love how they all call out each other’s bullshit and make sure they are responsible for the shit they do especially when they aren’t communicating correctly. I love how the boys came together to help Silas to trust again, and that Ollie was the girl for him. I love Ollie’s best friend and how he got more into hockey that Ollie did. That was about it. I liked the lads.

I hate the cheating trope, there is just no need for it. Both main characters were a bit wishy-washy at time, which made me want to smack them both. For someone who is supposed to be the “young one” Ollie was very old for her age and Silas was a child. I hated the miscommunication, and the third-act conflict wasn’t needed at all. For the whole book being about trust and patience, no one had trust and patience. This book should have been smaller than the first book and I would have preferred that compared to whatever the hell this one. I thought it was weird that Silas wanted to spend so much time in the dorms and the classes instead of trying to get Ollie to hang out with him in his domain.

The boys saved this book, and I would like to hope that Halsey’s book is so much better otherwise I'm about to jump off a cliff. Also, Ollie is my male dog's name, and it was just bizarre reading a main character with the same name as my dog.

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lauraelovesbooks's review

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A sweet, fun romance! This was my first Meghan Quinn book and I had a really good time reading it. Even though it is the third book in a series, I didn’t feel lost or confused.

Silas and Ollie were so sweet together and I loved their relationship. I also really loved Silas’ interactions with his teammates (although for a hockey romance, this was fairly light on the actual hockey)

The Spice was also really well done but I could have done with a little less. It got repetitive and if I hadn’t been listening to the audiobook, I definitely would have started skimming. I will say though their chemistry was great

All and all I really enjoyed this book and plan to read more from this series

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kmayn227's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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kell_yeah_reads's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

per my spreadsheet:

boy. this one made me cry.

spice 🌶 - a 4 🌶 spicy (romance.io scale)
length - just right
reading speed - read in 1 days
did it make me cry? - yes

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kb33's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

A bit of an age gap - mfc is 21 and mmc is 31, and that's talked about early in the book. While age gap isn't my favorite trope, I kinda like how it was handled. The mfc is mature and confident, and makes emotionally mature decisions most of the time, and doesn't need to lean on the mmc for anything.

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