Taboo lite? Diet taboo?

⭐️ Rating: 3/5

🌶️ Spice: 2/5

🏒 Forbidden Love

🏒 Insta Love

🏒 (soon to be) Step Siblings

🏒 Opposites Attract

🏒 Hockey Romance

I love a Tessa Bailey book. They are the first I recommend for someone wanting to get into the romance genre. They’ve got that romcom approach. The hero is always swoony, even if they don’t mean to be, and there’s always that magnetic connection between the couple. And maybe that’s just it, this is a good intro to the taboo genre. This could very much be a me thing. Maybe I’ve read too many taboo romance books, but this one didn’t quite hit how I wanted it to. I loved the first two books in this series. By the time we got to the end of book 2, I was practically BEGGING for Dream Girl. There was just so much that didn’t feel like it needed to be so hard.

We’ve got our hockey hero with a chip on his shoulder and our upper crust harpist who has no idea how money actually works. When they meet, it's immediate magic. The chemistry is chemistry-ing. But moments later they find out their parents are getting married. Insert the literal record scratch here. It was like putting a bucking of water on a house fire. It did very little to quelch their desire. This makes it interesting for a couple who shouldn’t be together but find themselves drawn together like magnets. 

While you don’t need to read the first two books in the Big Shots series to enjoy Dream Girl, I recommend it. Book one - golf bad boy. Yes you read that right. Book two - hockey single dad x nanny.