It took me a little while to get into this book but once I did I literally couldn’t put it down. I love Ella and Hudson together. I do feel like I would have liked to known more about their backstories and also life after the epilogue too. But I loved their relationship and honestly the side characters were amazing too! I wish I could keep on reading their story!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the digital ARC!

This was a pretty fun, easy read and a great palette cleanser between more dense books!

Ella is on a study abroad year to Whitland University in Nashville, with her normal university being in Oxford. She's on the cheer team in her home university, and she'll be joining the prestigious Whistland cheer team whilst abroad to experience American cheerleading in all its glory. Her aim? Daytona and hopefully winning with her temporary adopted team.

She ends up in a situationship with Whitland's star quarterback player, Hudson Fox. You might expect Hudson to be the usual braggadocious American football player that we usually read about - the college ones, in particular, have a huge ego. But Hudson is very much NOT that. He has a cat (which makes him amazing anyway), and he's very loyal to his friends and kind to others. He also has plenty of baggage that he's still working through, and football isn't the only thing he cares about.

Ella and Hudson keep coming together, despite their attempts not to, and their lives begin to intertwine more in things outside the bedroom.

I found both Ella and Hudson to be realistically written early 20s characters - they've got hints of childishness still, but they've also got their eye on the future. They're also very aware of money and social standings, with both of them having to work hard to achieve what they have. I love Hudson's cat, Sourdough, and his friends were equally great. None of them were toxic - Levi was lovely, and I'd interested to read a story focusing on him as well.

Ella's friends weren't really as visible - Gabi popped up occasionally, and Luke and Ash played prominent roles but I still knew more about Levi than I did them. Not that I minded!

Overall, a great book with plenty of romance and some spice to top it all off!