Title: The Bromance Book Club (Bromance Book Club #1)

Author: Lyssa Kay Adams

Publisher: Berkley 2019

Genre: Romance

Pages: 352

Rating: 2/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Ebook

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.

That was disappointing. I was intrigued by the concept and wanted it to be a great romance with deep discussions and satisfying sex scenes. What I got was a reenforcement of heteronormative gender roles dressed up with some dirty sex scenes. With every chapter, I found myself more and more annoyed by the characters and their inability to talk to each other. Instead, we get the “obtuse man who struggles with any emotion” and the woman “hung up on her daddy issues.” I just didn’t want to read about those characters. And I definitely wasn’t going to root for them. In fact, even at the end of the novel, I wanted Gavin and Thea to break up (or at least go to couples therapy). I was not impressed at all.

Bromance Book Club:

• #1 The Bromance Book Club

• #2 Undercover Bromance

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