An Beautiful Good Lady/Dangerous Boy Gradual Burn, Sports activities Romance
If Solely You
The Bergman Brothers
Up to date Romance, Sports activities Romance, Romantic Comedy
Berkley
February 20, 2024
book, paperback, audiobook
384
A longtime good lady and unapologetic unhealthy boy rating the love of their life after they least count on to on this swoony, slow-burn sports activities romance.
Ziggy Bergman is bored with being underestimated. Positive, she’s the youngest participant on the Nationwide Soccer staff and the child of the household, however that doesn’t imply she nonetheless deserves to be handled like a child. It’s time for her angelic picture to get a makeover. What higher method to try this than hanging out with hassle incarnate and her brother’s greatest buddy, Sebastian Gauthier?
Sebastian has hit all-time low. His hockey profession and sponsorships are in jeopardy of ending if one thing doesn’t give. Seb’s not keen to truly change his harmful methods, however he’s comfortable to faux he’s a reformed reprobate by faking a friendship for publicity with candy, shy Ziggy Bergman.
When faking begins to really feel actual, Ziggy and Seb uncover an surprising friendship they’re comfortable to carry on to. At the least, till their once-fake friendship turns into probably the most loving, empowering relationship they’ve ever recognized, and the top objective—for each of them—modifications.
I do know I’ve outgrown the labels I used to put on, however I can’t for the lifetime of me work out what I need to placed on now, what is going to really feel proper.
I completely adore authors like Chloe Liese who can create characters, storylines, and collection that change into acquainted, secure areas for readers. If Solely You is the sixth guide within the Bergman Brothers collection however is the second of two tales centered round a Bergman sister and the unhealthy boy brother’s greatest buddy that may’t appear to maintain out of the gossip pages for all of the flawed causes.
Sigrid, affectionately often called Ziggy, is our foremost character, and is able to escape of the field through which her household as safely ensconced her since she was nonetheless in grade college. She’s the youngest participant on the Girls’s Nationwide Soccer Group, and but she nonetheless sits together with her niece on the household dinner desk. Decided to make her teammates, her household, and most of the people take her extra critically, Ziggy decides the one one that can assist her is the one who wants a little bit rebranding himself: Sebastian 
Gauthier.
“Everybody deserves to have somebody of their nook who believes the perfect in them even after they’re at their worst.”
Sebastian’s issues will not be all centered round Ziggy Bergman, however her quiet willpower actually challenges him in all the suitable methods. Not solely is she the little sister of teammate and greatest buddy, Ren Bergman, she’s been the figment of all his wildest goals. Rehabbing his picture is vital to holding his job, however spending time with Ziggy turns into a lesson in self-reflection that he wasn’t prepared for till she misplaced her underwear at a marriage reception.
If Solely You is the slowburn romance that doesn’t precisely learn like one. There’s a lot romance that unfurls with every interplay between Seb and Ziggy. The kindness and earnestness of each characters in regard to the opposite made me swoon. Did I notice {that a} unhealthy boy hockey participant reciting Shakespeare can be a activate? No, I didn’t, however I’m right here for it! These characters are neurodiverse, they wrestle with psychological well being, with continual sickness, with vanity, with belief in relationships, and with the burden of rising up with childhood trauma after which studying to simply accept love with out circumstances. All of those causes are why Chloe Liese writes such phenomenal tales. Anybody can discover themselves in one in all her characters, after which see the commonality between us all. A real present in romance right this moment.
I’ve by no means been this near one thing this unspeakably good. I’ve by no means wished extra to be worthy of it.
Ziggy and Seb stole my coronary heart, and I assure that when you give If Solely You an opportunity, they are going to steal yours as properly.
Jes is a self-proclaimed bookworm, who not too long ago moved from the PNW again to the Midwest. When her nostril isn’t in a guide, she’s spending time together with her husband, two children, and her three fur infants, or exploring the globe. She additionally firmly believes that you need to begin the day with espresso, and finish the day in mattress with guide.