2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge: A book about a book club

The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


MLB player Gavin Scott is having marriage issues. After a fight with his wife Thea, he moved out of the house he shared with her and their young twin daughters. Now Thea wants a divorce. But Gavin wants to fight for their marriage.

Fellow teammates hold an intervention with him and tell him that the way to learn how women think and what they want in a relationship is to read what they read... romance novels. At first Gavin doesn't believe them, but in a Hail Mary attempt, he grudgingly starts to read "Courting the Countess" and starts to realize what needs to happen.

Using the novel as a guide he fights for his family, forcing both him and Thea and even Thea's sister to face hard truths that they have not wanted to face and maybe... he can overcome his own insecurities and win back the woman he loves.

****

I was pleasantly surprised that I liked this book. I am not much of a contemporary romance, but this was a novel approach as it uses the romance genre I do like - Regency. It also is mostly told from Gavin's point of view - which is not usually the case with the romances I read. It also had the right combination of series, silly and smutty. All the characters felt real and not caricatures of an idea.

I liked this book enough that I would recommend it and will probably look to read the sequel.



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