Review: The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was really cute, and anyone who is married will know that some of the situations in this book are very realistic. This follows Thea and Gavin a married couple going through some very real marriage trouble. Gavin is a pro baseball player, and Thea is a former artist who gave up her art to become a wife and mom shortly after she and Gavin met. Thea has had enough of Gavin never being around, being preoccupied with his career, and just not paying attention in general to what she wants. Coming from a divorced home herself, Thea has a hard time trusting and believing in love, so when Gavin walks out after a fight she takes that to mean divorce is their only next step. Gavin wants to work things out, and is determined to fix things. His friends from his baseball team introduce him to "the club" where many other pro athletes and professional men have found the answer to their marriage woes by reading romance novels. Gavin doesn't buy into the idea of fixing his marriage by reading a regency bodice ripper, but his best friend convinces him to give it a chance.

While parts of this were kind of silly, I did find so much of this a parallel to real life. Like the part where he couldn't find the towels when they were exactly where she said they were, that happens every day in my house. My son says I have a super power for finding things, I say boys can't find things that are right in front of them. I don't often read romances where the couple is already married and working out their marriage, typically they are getting together from the start or its a second chance romance after being apart for a long time. This was a nice change of pace. As for character development, it takes most of the book for the characters to really get to the root of their problems and really deal with them. When they finally internalize their own issues they are finally able to deal with each other and give their marriage a chance. I would have liked to see that happen a little earlier in the book as the ending felt a bit rushed to me.

Overall I really enjoyed this and I'm looking forward to the next one. I really enjoyed the guys in the club as they brought a lot of laughs to the book. It was also a nice surprise that parts of the romance Gavin was reading were included in the book, and that the guys in the club discussed it just like you would at a real book club.

I was provided an ARC of this book via Edelweiss+ in exchange for an honest review, however I listened to the final release version of the audiobook. Both of the narrators were excellent and I highly recommend the audiobook version.

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