Book: These Wicked Games by Sophie Quinn
Reviewed by Maggie Hayes
Rating: 4/5
📚✨ ARC REVIEW ✨📚
These Wicked Games by Sophie Quinn
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5 stars)
Thank you to the author for providing a free ARC!
Oli and Andre were best friends until a perceived betrayal tore them apart. Now, eight years later, Oli has spent nearly a decade hating Andre and clawing his way back to the top of the hockey world. When Andre is traded to Oli’s team, they’re forced to confront their past… and the growing sexual tension that’s impossible to ignore.
Will Oli let his anger keep him from his missing puzzle piece? Or will he uncover the truth and open his heart to love?
I love a good friends-to-enemies-to-lovers story, and Oli and Andre delivered. Their connection was immediate and powerful, even with their friendship ending in the first chapter—a testament to Sophie Quinn’s writing that I cared so much, so quickly.
Both characters carry deep emotional wounds, making their falling out even more heartbreaking. Once they were reunited, I was on edge, waiting for them to open up and find comfort in each other again. Watching them slowly rebuild trust and fall in love was incredibly satisfying. I totally melted when they finally found their way back to each other.
The worst part of the book, hands down, was Andre’s father, Tripp (and that’s completely intentional). He’s the definition of despicable—masquerading as a hockey hero while being anything but. Every scene he was in made my skin crawl.
If you’re in the mood for an angst-filled, emotional hate-to-love romance with depth, tension, and seriously top-tier spice (the hate s3x is real 🔥), add These Wicked Games to your TBR.
For fans of: 🌈 MM romance | 💔 Friends ➡️ Enemies ➡️ Lovers | 😤 Possessive hero | 🛡️ Touch him and die | 😭 Angst | 🏠 Forced proximity | 🏒 Hockey romance
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