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The Score by Elle Kennedy
3.0

Fairly standard New Adult romance featuring a bad-boy player who falls hard for his friend after they have a drunk "one night stand" that turns into a fling that turns into love.

The story opens with a bang, as Allie, hiding from the long-term boyfriend she recently dumped, barges in and and busts up hockey player Dean's three-way and then ends up sleeping with him the same night after a bottle of tequila.

I loved seeing Dean beg Allie. I loved that Allie owns her sexuality and but also fears her dependence on having a boyfriend. I didn't enjoy that the characters' first time together was told in bits and pieces as a booze-fueled flashback that Allie only slowly begins to remember after waking up naked with Dean.

The story felt a bit bloated at times and the romance arc wasn't the most thrilling for me personally, but it was overall a fun audio book. The male narrator was pleasant, including his female voices, and I liked the female narrator as well. I would listen to the previous three books in the series.

Content warnings for alcohol, drugs, secondary character death, and depression.