The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
Published November 5, 2019
The first rule of book club: You don’t talk about book club.
Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott’s marriage is in major league trouble. He’s recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it’s the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he’s let his pride and fear get the better of him.
Welcome to the Bromance Book Club.
Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville’s top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency titled Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it’ll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his wife.
I had such high hopes coming into this book, it didn’t sound like any other romance I’d ever read before, so I was really excited to read this. I was hoping that it would be well written, have good pacing, and just keep me hooked. And to be quite honest, it 1,000% delivered.
I was really excited to start reading a book about a married couple. I don’t think there’s enough romance or at least romance that intrigues me enough to pick up that starts with married couples. I’m married with a kid so I feel like I really connected with this book. Especially with some of the struggles that Gavin and Thea went through. I also absolutely adored the way that Gavin’s teammates and other friends showed up for him especially since he seemed like the wallflower or quiet one of the group, being that myself, I know I don’t open up to many people so it’s hard for friends to notice when something is wrong or how to help in a difficult situation.
Bringing in the book club as a “manual” to help Gavin win back Thea I thought was SUCH a brilliant idea. And I loved the little excerpts of “Courting the Countess” I thought it was a really good way to set up new stages of the book. And I was always looking forward to seeing how Gavin took the book in terms of bringing it to life and how it translated to working back towards a solid relationship with Thea.
I feel like being connected to this book in terms of being a married woman and having the fear of hitting a real hard spot at some point in our relationship (mind you, my husband and I have been married happily for 3 almost 4 wonderful years) just made me connect so hard with what was going on. And made me want to read more and more just to make sure Gavin and Thea ended up working out. I was truly rooting for them.
In the end The Bromance Book Club was pretty addicting, had some really sweet moments, and things that were so real that I feel like I ended up appreciating it more than I would other romances. It was a pretty quick read for me due to just being sucked in. But I have to say, this was probably a top 10 for 2020.
5/5 Stars
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