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dermkat 's review for:
The Girlfriend Zone
by Lauren Blakely
I really enjoyed this one!! I've liked the entire series and many more by Lauren Blakely, and I always expect her books to be a fun, numerous, spicy, easy read with some real life rep thrown in time to time. This one was the same but there's something about it I really liked. Leighton is the daughter of the hockey team's head coach, but Miles doesn't know that when they meet and then shortly after have a day together that feels like the start of something amazing for both of them. Then they discover that he plays for her dad and try for over a year to stay away from each other, but ultimately can't. The tension was great, the mutual pining and attraction, too. She has moderate hearing loss and uses hearing aids, and I didn't realize until the author note at the back that the author has similar hearing loss. She used her own experiences and interviews from others (and sensitivity readers) to inform the character. I absolutely love that and think she should have put the note at the start so readers know going in that she took the representation seriously and it's an own voices story. Leighton's deafness is an important part of her story, including the way Miles and other people interact with her because of it. He's wonderful in general, and they make a good team as they take care of his mom's four Chihuahuas, and you can really see that they're friends as well as lovers. Overall, I really liked their story and also that it set up the next two books coming this year (one in this series and one as a holiday standalone with a character from here).