The Proposal Play
Love and Hockey, Book 3
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The Proposal Play
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Narrated by:
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Vanessa Edwin
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Robert Hatchet
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By:
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Lauren Blakely
About this listen
Performed with duet narration by Vanessa Edwin and Robert Hatchet!
My plan when I win a date in Vegas with my brother’s hockey star best friend? Poker and go to sleep early. Instead, I wake up with a ring on my finger and the sexy athlete naked in my bed.
But Asher’s my best friend too so we’ll get this annulled and laugh about this secret for years to come.
Trouble is our wedding pics went viral overnight.
Now everyone thinks we’re a real couple. We race back home, where I’ve just landed the big art commission of my dreams and he’s launching a sports charity so we need to look like we meant to tie the knot.
Easy enough. We’ll claim we’ve been secretly in love, while staying in separate rooms for the rest of the hockey season.
The last thing either one of us wants is to ruin a decade-long friendship by falling into bed again.
But I experience a new side of my husband at home. He cooks for me, encourages me…and buys me so many toys.
And, it’s more fun to share your toys with a friend.
We’re just enjoying temporary marital benefits.
Except, the more times he calls me his wife, the more I start to wonder if Asher was ever pretending?
And if my heart is ready to take the biggest risk of all.
Tropes: brother’s best friend, friends to lovers, marriage of convenience, marriage pact, he’s been secretly in love with her for years, forced proximity, my wife, pro hockey
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Lauren Blakely really delivered with this one!! From the best friends dynamic to the comfort and support, to the amazing mental health rep (which I appreciated so much), and of course… HOCKEY!! 🏒Maeve and Asher completely stole my heart. Their connection felt so real and relatable especially with Asher being a bit of a worrier and Maeve having that sweet clingy side🥹 I honestly saw myself in both of them, which made their journey even more special. The way they worked through everything together was just so freaking cute!! The audiobook was also top tier—narrated in duet style by Vanessa Edwin and Robert Hatchet (and ummm… Robert’s voice? INSANELY 🥵), it brought the story to life in the best way. If you’re a fan of hockey romance, marriage of convenience, and best friends to lovers, The Proposal Play absolutely needs to be on your TBR. I adored every second of it and hope you do too!! 💙
friends to lovers so so sweet
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Terrible - so not worth the credit
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People often complain that friends-to-lovers is boring and this is a perfect example of why. It’s a trope I often defend, but I couldn’t this time. Asher and Maeve have been best friends for a decade, they have fun together, spend lots of time together, they care about each other, are clearly hot for each other, KNOW they are hot for each other, but they can’t be together because of… I dunno… reasons? 🤷♀️
And the marriage of convenience premise was particularly flimsy. It didn’t really make sense to me how it happened in the first place when Asher is meant to be so focused on control, researching everything, and protecting his image. I’m all for suspending disbelief in my romances, but this one really threw me.
This is the third book in the series (kind of fourth if you count Holidate), and I feel like all the great work done for Asher and Maeve in the previous books are completely thrown out the window. Maeve had been this carefree, liberated bad ass, but now all of a sudden she’s like “I’m such a hot mess, I’m too much, no wonder men don’t like me” - huh? And Asher was meant to be the charming, funny pretty boy, but is suddenly kind of a dork in this (plus his very forced character trait which is his ‘trauma’ in here for plot reasons I guess).
Super disappointing because I had high hopes for these characters having really liked them in the previous books, but spent most of this book being like “when will this end?!” And to that point, why was it so long? There definitely wasn’t enough material to sustain the 14+ hour run time. Honestly, I feel like the editors really dropped the ball on this one.
And the dialogue! Even the brilliance of Vanessa Edwin and Robert Hachett couldn’t save its awkwardness. I’m pretty sure “my wife” and “my husband” were used more often than the characters actual names.
I will say the narrators did a great job based on what they were working with.
Spice level: 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ (but the dialogue in these scenes really gave me the ick)
Narration style: duet for FMC & MMC, duel for all other characters
Tropes: friends-to-lovers, marriage of convenience, found family
This is why people don’t like the friends-to-lovers trope
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