#elle kennedy the risk

[instalovediaries]

Hannah Wells & Garrett Graham

The Deal by Elle Kennedy

[mzradyer]

allie-cat x playboy

allie hayes and dean di laurentis from the score (off-campus #3) by elle kennedy

for @malloryinsecret

[conejin]

"It happened. Deal with it."

[maneeyansf]

After reading the Risk and the Dare, I would LOVE a romance book about Coach Jensen and his new girlfriend.

I already know E. Kennedy had thoughts about them (for those who remember this part of the Legacy)

[little-miss-romance]

I’m officially his groupie. But that’s okay. Because he’s my groupie. We root for each other.

[thatpunkmaximoff]

[Book Two of Four]

Story: 5 out of 5 Smut: 2.5 out 5

So, I was nervous I wasn’t going to like this book because of Brenna’s personality, but damn if I didn’t end up loving this book!

The risk of dating the enemy really paid off for her, haha.

As usual, you have the fun banter and equally fun interactions between these college students, but I was surprised most with Brenna’s interaction with her dad. That conversation between them towards the end had me in tears. Oh my god.

This book starts off going up and up and up, and then that downfall at the end keeps you in a chokehold to see how it will play out. Definitely worth the read.

* Dear lord. The tension between these two is amazing 🥵

* Dude, McCarthy is head over heels in love with Brenna and all she wants is a casual hook-up. How is he gonna handle it when his captain ends up dicking her down?

* So that was her hook-up with Mike!? A sloppy makeout session and a handjob she didn’t even finish because she fell asleep 😂

* Ew. That internship interview was tanked the moment that sexist asshole opened his mouth. Poor Brenna.

* Tansy is the worse cousin ever. I’d have ditched her too.

* His hand was RIGHT THERE! And they let their phones distract them? I’m so disappointed lol.

* Lol she told that sleazebag interviewer that Jake was her boyfriend 🤦🏻‍♀️ And now he wants one real date for every fake date he has to go on. Yes!

* Goddamn. As if her junkie ex asking for cash wasn’t frustrating enough, her basement apartment flooded. Girl can’t catch a break.

* That was a dinner from hell. I would have made Jake grovel. Fuck that.

* Awww. She had fun on their date 🥹 but that phone call ruined the mood. It was totally her junkie ex, wasn’t it?

* I like that Jake’s best friend is looking out for him, but I feel like she’s jealous. Like she expects them to get together after graduation and him suddenly liking a girl enough to date is throwing her off.

* Oh fuck. Hockey Net is gonna air the Briar/Harvard game? Why do I get the sick feeling Mulder is gonna be on it and out Jake and Brenna’s “relationship”.. 😬

* Oh no… the enemy coach caught them 😅 Fucckkkk.

* Goddamn. They had to go rescue her junkie ex and he had the audacity to ask for fifty bucks..!? What a moron.

* Oh fuck. That fight on the ice was brutal. And totally not the characters I expected it from.

* The fucking Harvard coach outed them?!

* I fucking hate Brenna’s dad right now. Fuck this guy.

* And now I fucking hate Hazel, the best friend, for getting in Jake’s head. wtf, dude!

* Goddamn. And now I’m crying 😭

* I swear to god, Hazel better give Jake that bracelet. I’m gonna be pissed if she hides it from him.

* Wowwwww. She didn’t give him the bracelet. What a bitch.

* Now she did. Still a bitch love because she was in love with her best friend. Thankfully Jake doesn’t return her feelings.

* Awww. They’re together. And I’m glad she got that last minute jab at Harvard’s coach. Dick deserved it.

[lucienarcheron]

October Reads 📚

*The Risk (Briar U #2) by Elle Kennedy - 4/5

*The Play (Briar U #3) by Elle Kennedy - 4/5

*The Dare (Briar U #4) by Elle Kennedy - 3.5/5

*The Legacy (Off-Campus #5) by Elle Kennedy - 4.5/5

Emily Wilde's Encylopedia of Fearies by Heather Fawcett - 3/5

*marked for rereads

I dived back into elle kennedy's college hockey world and damn did I miss these dumbasses haha. I'm not always a second-generation fan but I'm cautiously optimistic going into The Graham Effect especially when the main character has my name HAHA. Emily Wilde's was an interesting book but I found it a little too slow for me. I'm excited to read The Graham Effect next but I'm currently diving into King of Greed!

[killianglyndon]

order my crescent city series copy today, even tho i haven’t finished acotar series lmao but i’m sure that i’ll want to read crescent city after i finish.

unfortunately it’s that the bookstore here only can order book 1 in paperback and book 2 in hardcover 🫠🫠 but the hardcover is actually a lot cheaper, it’s only a few dollars more than paperback (which they don’t have idk why) i was going to see if i can get new cover editions but i think that’s uk only thing? idk

[cuttergauthier]

I am not one that will actually read an actual book, but i bought the Chase 2 weeks ago i finished that series in no time and I bought The Deal by Elle Kennedy Yesterday and I only have 6 Chapter left to read... I can’t stop, her books are amazing!

[rainbinni]

Published books recommendations 📚

Here are some of the best books I’ve read so far. I have a lot more to read so I’ll probably made other posts. Let me know your favorite books so I can read it ;)

!! All of those books content strong and mature language !!

Off campus serie - Elle Kennedy [5 books] (Young adult)

The deal (Garett & Hannah) [400 pages] The mistake (Logan & Grace) [336 pages] The score (Dean & Ally) [384 pages] The goal (Tuck & Sabrina) [384 pages] The legacy (everyone) [337 pages]

Follow the stories of four hockey players roommates and their sex/love life. Each books are about one of the roommates except the last who reunited everyone.

Briar university series - Elle Kennedy [4 books] (young adults)

The chase (Fitz & Summer) [368 pages] The risk (Brenna & Jake) [408 pages] The play (Hunter & Demi) [400 pages] The dare (Conor & Taylor) [336 pages]

This four books are the following stories of the off campus series. It’s about four roommates (2 girls 2 boys) who moved in the house of the off campus roommates (who leaved after graduation)

Twisted serie - Ana Huang [4 books] (young adults)

Twisted love (Ava & Alex) [343 pages] Twisted game (Bridget & Rhys) [438 pages] Twisted hate (Jules & Josh) [504 pages] Twisted lies (Stella & Christian) [558 pages]

Those books follow the stories of four best friend and their love life. You can find tropes like e2l, s2l, best friend brother/ brother best friend, bodyguard…

Devil’s night serie - Penelope Douglas [6 books] (Dark romance)

Corrupt (Micheal & Rika) [499 pages] Hideaway (Kai & Banks) [522 pages] Kill switch (Damon & Winter) [638 pages] Conclave [100 pages] Nightfall (Will & Emory) [727 pages] Fire night [95 pages]

30th October. Devil’s night. Their night. Every year the four horsemen put their masks on and pull the best prank on the city without fearing any consequences. Having rich family make them untouchable. Or at least that’s what they thought…

A million kisses in your life time - Monica Murphy [554 pages] (young adults)

At Lancaster Prep, the girls love her. They all want to be her friend. Only Crew see Wren for who she really is. A repressed little virgin who keeps her feelings locked up so tight she’s probably close to bursting. She thinks she’s above us all. Even him. She’s not his type. Until they’re forced to work together in class and realize they might have more things in common than they originally thought. Soon enough he find himself completely obsessed. He will do anything for this girl to make her fall in love with him.

Icebreaker - Hanna Grace [414 pages] (young adults)

Anastasia Allen is a competitive figure skater since she was five years old, a full college scholarship thanks to her place on the Maple Hills skating team, and a schedule that would make even the most driven person weep, Stassie comes to win. No exceptions. Nathan Hawkins has never had a problem he couldn’t solve. As captain of the Maple Hills Titans, he knows the responsibility of keeping the hockey team on the ice rests on his shoulders. When a misunderstanding results in the two teams sharing a rink, and Anastasia’s partner gets hurt in the aftermath, Nate finds himself swapping his stick for tights, and one scary coach for an even scarier one. The pair find themselves stuck together in more ways than one, but it’s fine, because Anastasia doesn’t even like hockey players…right?

[hannasbookshelf]

𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬

The Enemy Trap - Maren Moore (same world as The Newspaper Nanny but standalone)

The Newspaper Nanny - Maren Moore (same world as The Enemy Trap but standalone)

Totally Pucked - Maren Moore :

Change on the Fly

Sincerely, The Puckbunny

The Scorecard (duet with The Final Score)

The Final Score (duet with The Scorecard)

The Penalty Shot

Playboy Playmaker

D.C. Eagles Hockey - Leah Brunner :

Passion or Penalty (Novella)

Desire or Defense

Flirtation or Faceoff

The Vancouver Agitators - Meghan Quinn :

Kiss and Don't Tell

Those Three Little Words

Right Man, Right Time

Playing for Keeps - Becka Mack :

Consider Me

Play With Me

Unravel Me

Maple Hills - Hannah Grace :

Icebreaker

Wildfire

Mendell Hawks - Deanna Grey :

Sunny Disposition

Team Players

Off-Campus - Elle Kennedy (problematic author) :

The Deal

The Mistake

The Score

The Goal

The Legacy

Briar U - Elle Kennedy (problematic author) :

The Chase

The Risk

The Play

The Dare

Pucking Wrong - C.R.Jane :

The Pucking Wrong Number

The Pucking Wrong Guy

Pucked - Helena Hunting :

Pucked

Pucked Up

Pucked Over

Forever Pucked

Pucked Off

Pucked Love

All In - Helena Hunting :

A Lie for a Lie

A Favor for a Favor

A Secret for a Secret

A Kiss for a Kiss

Rules of the Game - Avery Keelan

Offside

Shutout

Jacksonville Rays - Emily Rath :

That One Night (prequel-Novella to Pucking Around)

Pucking Around

Pucking Wild

Pucking Sweet

Time to Shine - Rachel Reid

Game Changers - Rachel Reid :

Game Changer

Heated Rivalry

Tough Guy

Common Goal

Role Model

The Long Game

Gravity - Tal Bauer

Vancouver Wolves Hockey - Odette Stone :

Puck Me Secretly

Home Game

The Penalty Box

High Risk Rookie

Vancouver Storm - Stephanie Archer :

Behind the Net

Ice Knights - Avery Flynn :

Parental Guidance

Awk-Weird

Loud Mouth

𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔:

Isn't It Bromantic - Lyssa Kay Adams (book 4 in the Bromance Book Club Series)

Powerless- Elsie Silver (book 3 in the Chestnut Springs Series)

Final Offer - Lauren Asher (book 3 in the Dreamland Billionaires Series, male main character used to be a hockey player)

Mile High - Liz Tomforde (book 1 in the Windy City Series)

Breakaway - Grace Reilly (book 2 in the Beyond the Play Series)

[world-of-wales]

Okay I’m obsessed with the enemies to lovers and marriage of convenience/arranged marriage/ fake dating trope

Recommendations please 🙏

Here you go anon, sorry it took me some time to answer this. I had to open my laptop to get my book lists. A lot of the books have overlapping tropes. If you want any other recs just send me a msg ♡

And most of these are okay and Clean books but a lot of them come with heavy stuff so please check your triggers before you dive into them.

ENEMIES TO LOVERS -

RWRB (Coz that started the whole boom Conversation) - Casey McQuiston

Serpent & Dove - Shelby Mahurim

Dance of Thieves - Mary E Pearson

Spanish Love Deception - Elena Armas

5 Rounds - Nikki Castle

Brutal Prince - Sophie Lark

To Hate Adam Connor - Ella Maise

Taste - Melanie Harlow

Eleanor & Grey (not exactly enemies to lovers but he's very grumpy and closed off) - Brittany C Cherry

From Lukov with Love - Mariana Zapaata

By a Thread - Lucy Score

Twisted Hate - Anna Huang

Until I get you - Claire Conttreras

Weak Side - SJ Sylvis

Grumpy Romance - Nia Arthurs

Rogue - Greer Rivers

The Summer We Fell - Elizabeth O Rourke

Beauty and the Baller - Isla Madden Mills

Things We never got over - Lucy Score

Mafia Royals (A LOT OF THEM) - Rachel Van Dyken

Heart Song Duet - Jennifer Hartmann

Crow - A Zaverelli

ARRANGED MARRAIGE / MARRAIGE OF CONVENIENCE -

Marraige for one - Ellas Maise

The Windsor Series (ongoing, 3 books out) - Catharina Maura

Terms and Conditions - Lauren Asher

The Penalty Box - Odette Stone

The Buff - Devney Perry

To Love Jason Thorn - Ella Maise

The Wall of Winnipeg - Mariana Zapaata

King of Wrath - Anna Huang

Forever after all - Catharina Maura

Twisted - Emily McIntyre

Fake Empire - CW Farnsworth (or Swansworth)

Sinners Anonymous - Somme Sketcher

First 3 books of Filthy Rich Americans Series - Nikki Sloane

Dark Succession - Katee Robert

Marraige Effect - Karla Sorenson

Beautifully Broken Redemption - Catherien Cowles

Duchess Deal - Tessa Dare

FAKE DATING -

The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood

The Cheat Sheet - Sarah Adams

Fix Her Up - Tessa Bailey

Addicted to You - Krista & Becca Richie

Hani and Ishu's guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jagirdar

Redeemed - Lauren Asher

The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang

Overruled - Emma Chase

Play Fake - Maggie Rawdon

That Kind of Guy - Stephanie Archer

The Bodyguard - Katherine Center

The Boyfriend Candidate - Ashley Winstead

First Down - Grace Reilly

The Real Deal - Lauren Blakeley

Happy Place - Emily Henry

Foxe and the Hound - RS Grey

My Life in Shambles - Karina Halle

Twisted Lies - Ana Huang

Blind Side - Kandi Stiener

The Deal + The Risk - Elle Kennedy

Boyfriend Material - Alexis Mall

Faking with Benefits - Lily Gold

The Upside of Falling - Alex Light

Unfortunately Yours - Tessa Bailey

[libertyreads]

August 2024 TBR--

The month of August has some HIGH expectations with three of my most anticipated new releases making their way into my home during the month. I'm also keeping my streak of at least one hockey romance read per month. I'm excited to do a couple of rereads as well. Let's get to the books.

The Luminaries by Susan Dennard (reread)-- This is going to be my third read of this novel and it's all in preparation for the final book which comes out later this month. Hemlock Falls has a forest that fills with monsters every night when the sun sets and the mists rise. Which is why the town is full of hunters. But Winnie and her family are outsiders due to her father being outed as a witch and a traitor ten years ago. Until she creates a plan to be welcomed back with open arms.

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (reread)-- This is my other reread for the month. I'm planning on reading all of the books in the series this year. We follow Katniss and Peeta as they complete the district tour following their win of the games. But then they're forced to go back into the arena when the Quarter Quell is announced.

The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren-- Starving artist Anna and Stanford professor Liam pair up so Liam can complete a clause in his grandfather's will and finally get his share of the inheritance. Liam worries that Anna won't survive his cut throat toxic family in this world of wealth.

The Play by Elle Kennedy (Kindle)-- My hockey romance of the month. I've read quite a few Elle Kennedy hockey romance novels so when I was looking for one to read in the month of August, her name came to mind. This is book 3 in the Briar U series. In this one we follow Hunter who is the new team captain and who has a new rule for himself: school and hockey now, girls later. After a horrible season the previous year, he's determined to get the team back on track. But when Hunter's friend Demi's relationship ends and she's looking for a rebound just three months into the school year? Hunter's going to find it hard to resist her. I'm hoping for angst here because that's what I've discovered is my jam in romances.

The Grandest Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (New Release)-- This is a spin off series from the Inheritance Games so I'm excited to see where this goes. The Grandest Game is an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four Hawthorne brothers. It is designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune. This year there are seven golden tickets. Some players are in it for the money, some are in it for power, and every single one of them have secrets.

Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson (New Release)-- This is a new stand alone from one of my favorite authors. I've tried to avoid knowing too much about this one so I'll just include a small section from the GoodReads synopsis: "With her house-sitting career up in flames, it seems the universe owes Marlow a new summer job, and that's how she ends up at Morning House, a mansion built on an island in the 1920s and abandoned shortly thereafter. It's easy enough giving tours. Low risk of fire. High chance of getting bored talking about stained glass and nut cutlets and Prohibition. Oh, and the deaths. Did anyone mention the deaths?"

Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (New Release)-- I have such high hopes for this one following the ending of book one. (It gave me "Don't Blame Me" by Taylor Swift vibes.) In book one, we follow Evie Sage who is the assistant to The Villain in a campy Fantasy novel. The first book leaves it on such a huge cliffhanger and I just want to know what happens next. The synopsis on GoodReads doesn't help at all. The first book was so fun and I know book two will be as well.

August has got a lot to live up to with these new releases and the rereads. I'm so excited.

[dhaaruni]

My work chat is talking about hockey teams and I only realized they were talking about hockey because they brought up the Edmonton Oilers and Jake Connelly in Elle Kennedy's The Risk plays for that team 💀💀💀

[theemporium]

Can I ask what hockey books u read 👀👀 I've also read some pretty terrible ones myself and I'm losing hope 😭 sticking to hannah Grace for now cause I actually enjoyed icebreaker and wildfire 🤠

they are trashy but i do adore the elle kennedy books! i recommend the off campus series and the briar u series, but stay away from 'the legacy' and the new second generation series because they are quite shit and just ruin the world tbh😭my personal favourites were 'the deal', 'the score' and 'the risk'!!

as for books to avoid? a lot of people recommended avery keelan, becka mack and hannah cowan. maybe it's partially my fault for reading them all so close together but they were shit😭like the characters and plots and the whole vibe in general was off for all three of them. not personal fans of their works

i did read "behind the net" by stephanie archer and "rule number five" by j wilder and, i won't lie, i don't remember much from the reads but i remember liking them a little better. they didn't necessarily scratch the itch i wanted for a hockey romance but they were more tolerable than the previous three authors i mentioned

but i fucking ADORE the maple hill series and i cannot wait for henry's book!! although to be fair, they don't really focus on the hockey aspect as much as other books do which i honestly don't mind. they are still great books (wildfire is my fav) but i wouldn't go into them expecting a shit load of hockey!! even icebreaker was more ice skating based than hockey

[msmargaretmurry]

elle kennedy is my parasocial enemy, but “the risk” was a fun read for my commutes

I can’t remember if the hockey was objectionable though 😔

ohhhh anon please tell me more about the parasocial enemies part. i'm so nosy. i love a good grudge.

i don't know anything about elle kennedy except for how i hated HIM and her royal majesty lexi brown hated the het romance of EK's that she read (me 🤝 lexi 🥰) so i'm probably just going to pass on her stuff from now on. i looked up "the risk" and the premise sounds great, however, in addition to my more legitimate grievances with HIM, i just cannot do first person present tense romance novels. not a critique, just a personal preference! that's one of those things that a lot of romance readers seem to love and i'm just like, well, that is not for me 😂