So This Is War by Meghan Quinn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Did I think I was going to fall for my coach’s daughter?
So This Is War
The answer would be no.
I’m still unclear on how I got into this predicament in the first place. A year ago, I was a man with one thought on his mind, the redhead I met at a hotel bar. Twelve months later, I found her.
Unfortunately for me, she not only happens to be my very off-limits coach’s daughter, but also . . . my new assistant and roommate.
I don’t even need an assistant, but Coach Wood doesn’t take no for an answer. Add in him writing up tasks for his daughter, Wylie, to complete for me? Well, it’s his own form of sweet torture. We are talking tasks that I would never ask her to do.
Tasks that make her despise me.
Hate me.
That make her utter four words that cause a shiver to crawl up my spine . . . Posey, this is war.
The one where she doesn’t know that you know that she knows.
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🙂🥰☺️😎
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration – ✨Full Cast✨
The heroine: Wylie Wood – she has some extreme daddy issues, because she grew up with a single father who was in love with the sport of hockey. The sport took him away from her for half her life. Now that she is a twenty-one-year-old woman in grad school for business, she is still a bit scared of her dad, and he is still trying to run her life. He wants her to work in the office of the Vancouver Agitators, the team he coaches for, in Business Sales when she graduates, though she is more interested in pursuing graphic arts.
The Hero: Levi Posey – he is a star defenseman for the Vancouver Agitators pro hockey team. He is notorious for getting involved in the love lives of his best friends and teammates. He sees himself as a matchmaker, and thinks he gives the best advice to his friends, though all his friends know that his advice isn’t always politically correct, is somewhat juvenile and not well thought out.
The Story: Posey first meets Wylie in a bar on the night before a game when he was looking to hook up. They flirted for hours, she was planning to go back to his room for the night without telling him her name or her association to his team. Until she sees her dad and runs out on him. A year later, Wylie is back, and she finally tells her dad she isn’t finishing her degree and is going to be a graphic artist. Her dad tells her that since he paid for five years of college that she is throwing away, she owes him one semester of working as a personal assistant for the Agitators while still pursuing graphic arts and she will have to be financially independent from him. He assigns her to be PA for Levi Posey.
Posey gets stuck when Wylie’s father, forces him to take her on as his Assistant. He tells Posey to keep her busy with meaningless tasks and make her life a living hell so that she sees the benefit of going back to finish her business degree. Posey can’t handle being in close quarters with Wylie and doesn’t want to call in the Frozen Fellas, his group of friends on the team for help because he thinks they are idiots when it comes to women. So, instead he calls on their wives and girlfriends for help.
I absolutely loved the last book where Halsey was getting all kinds of romantic help from the Frozen Fellas. They were absolutely hilarious. I thought this book would be even better, and it was funny at times, but I have to say the Queens were not quite as funny as the Frozen Fellas. The Fellas did get a bit more play at the end, but I wanted them throughout the book like the last one.
I am usually not at all fond of the coach’s daughter trope. I tend to think that authors should try to be more original. Though I do know it is a popular one in the sports romance genre. I did love this one though, mostly because I loved Wylie. She was a strong character with a sunny personality, who was willing to stand up for herself.
“The girl of my absolute dreams, the one that’s been persistent in my mind for a year. The girl who could do no wrong. SHE LIKES BOLOGNA!”
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Emma Wilder, Teddy Hamilton, J.F. Harding, Jason Clarke, Connor Crais, Stella Hunter, Kelsey Navarro-Foster, Erin Mallon, Vanessa Edwin. I don’t have to say much about this. What more could you want but full cast duet narration with some of the best narrators in romance audiobooks? Just that it was awesome!
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