Campus Heartthrob by Jennifer Sucevic

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

He Can Have Any Girl. Except the One He Wants.
Brayden Kendricks might be God’s gift to the female species at Western University, but I want nothing to do with the dark-haired football player. The guy is an attention seeking you-know-what who soaks up fan adoration like it’s his due in life for being hot and talented.
Damn. Did I just say that?
All right, fine…I’ll grudgingly admit that Brayden is decent looking. I suppose if you’re into guys who resemble Greek gods with abs of steel and chiseled pecs, then sure, one could consider him attractive.
Am I guilty of having a tiny, practically non-existent crush on him freshman year?
I’d prefer not to answer that question.
Thankfully, I quickly came to my senses and have made a concerted effort to steer clear of Brayden ever since. It hasn’t been easy, considering that my bestie is now dating his roommate and we’ve been thrown together for an accounting project. You’d think after years of baring my teeth at him like a rabid dog, the guy would have gotten the memo that I’m not interested.
Apparently not, since he’s spreading word around campus that we’re going out.
I mean, can you even imagine?
Me?
Dating Brayden Kendricks?
I have four words for him…
No.
Way.
In.
Hell.

Campus Heartthrob

Fake relationship, New Adult, Sports Romance.

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚❤️💜💖
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: ☺️🙃😳🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The Hero: Brayden – he is a senior and a football player at Western University, with goals of making it big in the NFL draft in the spring. He has been named Campus Heartthrob for three years running, and last year he wasn’t even nominated, but still won. He had a big loss in his family before his freshman year and didn’t quite know how to handle it, so he used partying and women to fill the void in his life, but that has gotten old, and he now focuses on the game and his grades.

The heroine: Sydney – she is a senior and a soccer player at Western University. She is an accounting major, though she doesn’t know if that is really what she wants to do with her life. She likes her Art courses and currently needs to find a male body modal for one of her projects. She lost her brother four years ago and still misses him every day.

The Story: Brayden has been attracted to Sydney for years, but she is the one girl on campus who wants nothing to do with him. He doesn’t know why, but he would like to get to know her better, though he definitely doesn’t want a relationship. The two of them are doing a project together for one of their classes and they see each other now and then since their besties are dating each other.

Brayden has a stalker, a girl named Kira who will not leave him alone. She corners him at every party, shows up at his home, hanging with his roommates and the other cleat chasers, and most recently he found her naked in his bed despite repeatedly telling her he didn’t want her. Brayden ends up telling Kira that he is dating Sydney one night when Kira is especially pushy. So, Brayden talks Sydney into being his pretend girlfriend in exchange for him modeling for her project when nobody else has been willing.

I like the fake boyfriend trope as well as the new adult sports romance, and this one is par for the course for both of these tropes. Both of the main characters have losses in their pasts, so they find common ground quickly enough. I liked both characters, especially the fact that Sydney was also a division one athlete. Many times, in these tropes, it is the nerdy girl who gets the athlete, so I loved the fact that Sydney is also into sports. Their relationship grows slowly but there are plenty of steamy scenes all throughout.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Michael Gallagher and Jennifer Blom. Jennifer Blom has a nice voice, it is soft and feminine, and sounds age appropriate, though something bothered me. I think she somehow sounded depressed. She wasn’t monotone, but still something about her voice just made me think of someone who is tired or depressed. Michael Gallagher has a nice gravelly voice which also sounded age appropriate for a new adult novel.

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