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Review: Flow (The New Bradfords #3) by Tia Louise


Are they in love? Let me tell you... It’s so much more!!!
Want to learn all about them?

FLOW by Tia Louise is available now in ebook, Kindle Unlimited, paperback, and audio coming May 4! Maverick Murphy > all other BBFs!!!

Read it here: https://mybook.to/FlowAmz

Tropes inside:

🏒Hockey romance
🏒Golden retriever Hero
🏒STEM FMC (saving the trees!)
🏒Childhood friends to lovers
🏒He falls first (and HARD)
🏒Fake dating!
🏒Roommates to lovers
🏒So much FUN BANTER!


Blurb
He’s loved her since childhood; one fake date might finally make it real.

I was 15 years old when I stood on a hill in a peach orchard with the girl of my dreams, contemplating marriage.
Now I’m a hockey star, The Maverick Murphy.
I have flow on the ice and on my head, but I still have trouble forming sentences when she’s around.
And she’s all around—living in my house, sharing my space, so close, I can smell her perfume on my clothes.
I’m all grown up, and I’d still do anything for her.

I was 15 when I stood on a hill in my family’s peach orchard with the cutest boy I knew and said I’d marry him on the spot.
Now that boy is a grown man, a hockey star with muscles and dimples and smoldering hazel eyes.
He’s also my new roommate, but I’m not here to fall in love.
Our beloved peach trees are dying, and I’m here to find a cure.

When the town’s rich bully threatens to own our land and me along with it, I kind of snap. I kind of say Maverick’s mine for real.
It’s a lie. We’re only faking, but with every kiss, every touch, every stolen moment, reality starts to blur.
Still, as much as we want to pretend, he’s LA’s hockey champion, and when the semester ends, I’ll have to leave.
That’s reality.

(Flow is a hockey romance with a golden retriever hero, a STEM FMC, childhood friends to lovers, he falls first [and so hard], fake dating, close proximity, roommates to lovers, it’s always been you, hilariously meddling family, and loads of spicy fun. No cheating, no cliffhanger, and no third-act breakup.)

MY REVIEW


First as children, then as teens, Maverick was utterly fascinated by Dove and her family's peach orchards. She was always the one, in that innocent way. Then they went on to live separate lives, where they didn't really have contact with each other. He went onto hockey fame, and she stayed home. But now she's got to go to LA for a chance to work with an expert professor to find a way to save her beloved peach orchards from the plant disease spreading its way from tree to tree. Cue Maverick and his house. Being roommates with her childhood friend is bringing up all sorts of things that aren't exactly childlike.


Maverick is the same guy around Dove that he always was. He loses his words around her, gets lost in his feelings for, feelings he's never articulated to her. But now she's his roommate and he has the chance show her how he's always felt about her. He'll have to be content with a short term thing, though, because she's only in LA for a short time, and he's here for as long as he's on the LA Champions. They can't see a way to make a relationship work long term, but Maverick's not planning on letting her go.


Sweet golden retriever down bad for the only girl he's ever loved, who's a smart af STEM woman - how could I not love Maverick and Dove?! Maverick isn't that alpha hole who's hard for everyone but his love. No, he's sweet, soft and has pined for Dove since he was 15! He was so freaking in love with her and never once wavered in that. And Dove? Wow. I do so love a smart, strong FMC, and she is so definitely that. I love the og Bradfords, but I think this next gen is even better. Dove and Maverick are so adorable in the delicious slow burn way. Knox is up next, and oooh am I looking forward to his story!

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