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By: Elle Kennedy
Narrated by: Ana Osorio, Teddy Hamilton
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A brand-new stand-alone novel in the New York Times best-selling Briar U series!

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.

©2019 Elle Kennedy (P)2019 Audible, Inc. Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Sports Hockey Heartfelt College Romance Feel-Good
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This installment of Briar U was just okay. I loved Hunter, and while Demi was cute, I felt I didn’t really connect with her. Her character development was very superficial. And don’t get me started with the narration - Ana Osorio needs work. I’m not sure if her over pronunciation of words was done purposely or for effect (as a Latina accent). Every word with two or more syllables was spoken phonetically and it was truly annoying.

Teddy was fabulous as usual, but...

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I loved that the female narrator actually sounded young enough to be a college student. I am so incredibly tired of listening to female narrators who sound like 40 year old bank executives reading the parts of 20 year old free-spirited young adults. This narrator did mispronounce some words (as mentioned in other reviews), but that was less of a problem for me since she actually sounded like she was the right age. I loved Teddy Hamilton and enjoy everything I’ve heard him do.
I enjoyed this entire series, and this book was no different. I enjoyed the interactions between Hunter and Demi, and the antics of the hockey team had me giggling out loud.

Enjoyed it

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I have exactly the same problem as the majority of other people in the reviews. The story is good, but the book is hard to listen to because Osorio does such a terrible job. She mispronounces dozens of words, and her performance is emotionally inconsistent and often falls flat.

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I really liked seeing Hunter more grown up than the other books and not such a d-bag. And Demi was the perfect combo of sweet/naive and still firey and a challenge for Hunter.
But this is the first Elle Kennedy book I've read that I really didn't like the female narrator. I think she speaks fluent Spanish (and maybe IS Spanish) but I swear it sounded like someone born and raised in West Virginia trying to pronounce Spanish words. Very strange. Plus, she mispronounced words incredibly frequently.
I loved the male narrator, but the female narrator gets maybe 3.5 stars from me - not bad enough to make the book unbearable by any means, but bad enough that I would get pulled out of the story multiple times in her chapters by her mispronunciation.

Loved Hunter + Demi's story

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The female actor has a youthful voice. That’s not a problem, but the narration in the serious and intimate scenes are too cheerful. I still enjoyed the story

Younger audience

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