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Review: Faking Seasons Bright (The Ottawa Otters #3) by K.M. Gillis


Faking Seasons Bright (The Ottawa Otters #3) by K.M. Gillis is NOW LIVE!

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FW8434VC

🩵Tropes:

💚 Both athletes
💚 PWHL Goalie + NHL Player
💚 Fake Dating
💚 He falls first and harder
💚 Only one bed
💚 He wears her jersey
💚 He faces off against her ex
💚 PINING!!!
💚 Flirty Texting


Blurb
Oh what fun...

Bailey Gates is one of the PWHL's top goalies. As a member of sports' most admired family, she's used to performing under pressure. Being the maid of honour in her brother's Christmas Eve wedding should be festive family fun…except her cheating ex-boyfriend is the best man, and her overbearing mother is determined to reunite them. For the first time in her life, Bailey is the one who needs saving.

Austin Crawford is one of the NHL's most talked-about players. He's as likely to make the highlight reels as the gossip pages. A chance encounter last Christmas made him realize he wants more than hookups and headlines. So when the goalie he's had a crush on for the last year offers him a way to clean up his image, he agrees before she can change her mind.

A fake relationship will improve his brand and get her family off her back. It's only until New Year's. Only for the cameras. Only pretend. But as the holiday wedding draws closer, so do they. And when Austin shoots his shot Bailey discovers she can guard her net but not her heart.

MY REVIEW

Bailey is immune to playboy hockey players. It's why she isn't responding to Austin's obvious attempts to win her over. But their relationship is evolving from nothing to long, witty and snarky texting to now, when she asks him to be her fake date to her brother's wedding so she can save face in front of her cheating ex. Her immunity to Austin's charm is about to be severely tested this holiday season.


Austin is down so bad the second he lays eyes on Bailey, and I was so here for it. I absolutely adored him with all his pining, his sweet, swoony charm, and how he stood up for her in every way. And Bailey - this girl is equally amazing. So strong, and funny as she did her best to resist Austin, but inevitably fell for him anyway. Women's sports have come so far since I was a little girl, and Bailey as a kickass goalie is the perfect role model and example of the elevation women's sports have been on the past few years. I want to read a lot more about them, The Otters, and hockey - women's and men's.

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