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breedawnwriter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I really loved the character development and the internal conflict, and now I may be contemplating if sports romance is my new favorite romance trope🤌
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Sexual content and Alcohol
Minor: Blood, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail
Some kissing (and some of it is passionate), but nothing more. The romance is closed-door, so there’s no on-page sex scenes.annahamburger's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Alcohol
Moderate: Mental illness, Sexism, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
libriinks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
abbypeekreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Car accident and Injury/Injury detail
doodeedoda's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Car accident
frantically's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Bree and Nathan are so perfect together and I loved how they cared about eachother esp with Nathan's mental health issues (so good, we need more men suffering in romance).
Adams is so good at writing closed-door romances, in comparison to other books it really doesn't feel like you miss much. The Big Emotions we often get in smut scenes are just put somewhere else here and I loved those scenes just as much!
Disclaimer about why I gave 4 stars: there is some girl-on-girl hate (which almost comes with the territory with the boy-girl-besties thing) and Bree is a bit pick-me at times. But it's not as bad as other books I've read, just a teeny bit annoying.
Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Car accident and Injury/Injury detail
annasbooks00's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Car accident, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Toxic relationship and Injury/Injury detail
theespressoedition's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
abbyluvsfrogs444's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
So yeah, I will not be reading this again. Everything was so dramatic and overdone.
Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
savvyrosereads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Bree and Nathan have been best friends since high school, but never attempted to be anything more. Now, Nathan is an NFL star and Bree owns a dance studio, and they seem destined to be only friends forever. But when a drunken Bree declares her feelings to a TMZ reporter and they’re thrust into a fake dating arrangement, everything between them may just be about to change.
I ADORED THIS BOOK. I tend to really enjoy sports romances, but friends-to-lovers can be hit or miss for me, and thankfully this one was a gigantic hit. Nathan and Bree were absolutely perfect together, and the story was cute, sweet, and funny the entire way through. It also made perfect sense to me why neither of them made a move earlier in their friendship, and the development of their relationship felt natural and fairly relatable (maybe having a TMZ reporter film you in a bathroom is less relatable, but who’s to say?!)
It’s pretty rare that I fall for the cinnamon roll hero, but I was messaging all my friends at twenty pages into this book telling them how much I love Nathan Donelson and my feelings only got stronger as the book went on. He’s absolute perfection, and landed himself a spot VERY close to the top of my list of perfect book boyfriends.
I could go on, but really you should just read The Cheat Sheet yourself. If you want an absolutely adorable rom-com that is closed door but with LOTS of chemistry, this is the book for you!
Recommended to anyone, but especially if you like: sports romance; friends-to-lovers; cinnamon roll heroes
CW: Panic attacks/mental health; mentions of car accident/injury (off-page)
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Car accident and Injury/Injury detail