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The friend zone is not the end zone for Bree Camden, who is helplessly in love with her longtime best friend and extremely hot NFL legend, Nathan Donelson. The only problem is that she can’t admit her true feelings, because he clearly sees her as a best friend with no romantic potential, and the last thing Bree wants is to ruin their relationship. But those abs . . .

Nope! Nothing but good old-fashioned, no-touching-the-sexiest-man-alive, platonic friendship for Bree. In any case, she has other things to worry about. After a car accident ended her chance at becoming a professional ballerina, Bree changed paths and now owns her own dance studio, with big dreams to expand it. But one more rent increase could mean the end of the studio entirely.

Then, as usual, Nathan comes to the rescue and buys the entire building. A stubborn Bree is not happy about it and decides to rebel with a couple—okay, maybe more than a couple—of tequila shots. Then her plan backfires as she spills her deepest, darkest secret to a TMZ reporter. One viral video later, the world thinks Nathan and Bree are the perfect couple. Before they can really talk about her confession, Nathan’s publicist proposes a big opportunity that could mean financial security for Bree. The catch? They have to pretend to be in love. For three whole weeks.

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Sarah Adams was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She loves her family, warm days, and making people smile. Sarah has dreamed of being a writer since she was a girl, but finally wrote her first novel when her daughters were napping and she no longer had any excuses to put it off. Sarah is a coffee addict, a British history nerd, a mom of two daughters, married to her best friend, and an indecisive introvert. Her hope is to write stories that make readers laugh, maybe even cry—but always leave them happier than when they started reading.

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1  Bree


Balancing two cups of burning hot coffee and a box of donuts while trying to unlock a front door is not easy. But because I’m the best friend a person could ever ask for—which I will remind Nathan of as soon as I make it inside his apartment—I manage it.

I hiss when I turn the lock and a splash of coffee darts out onto my wrist through the little hole in the lid. I have fair skin, so there’s a one million percent chance it’s going to leave an angry red mark.

The moment I step inside Nathan’s apartment (which really should not be called an apartment because it’s the size of five large apartments smooshed together), the familiar clean and crisp scent of him knocks into me like a bus. I know this smell so well I think I could follow it like a bloodhound if he ever goes missing.

Using the heel of my tennis shoe, I slam the front door shut with enough gusto to warn Nathan that I’m on the premises. ATTENTION ALL SEXY QUARTERBACKS! COVER YOUR GOODS! A GREEDYEYED WOMAN IS IN THE HOUSE!

A high-pitched yelp sounds from the kitchen, and I immediately frown. Peeking around the corner, I find a woman wearing a light pink shorts-and-camisole sleep set pressed into the far corner of the wraparound white marble kitchen counter. She’s clutching a butcher knife to her chest. We’re separated by a massive island, but from the way her eyes are bugging out, you’d think I was holding matching cutlery against the jugular vein in her neck.

“DON’T COME ANY CLOSER!” she screeches, and I immediately roll my eyes, because why does she have to be so screechy? She sounds like a clothespin is pinching the bridge of her nose and she has recently inhaled a whole balloon full of helium.

I would raise my hands in the air so I don’t get knifed to death, but I’m sort of loaded down with breakfast goods—goods for me and Nathan, not Miss Screechy. This isn’t my first rodeo with one of Nathan’s girlfriends, though, so I do what I always do and smile at Kelsey. And yeah, I know her name, because even though she pretends not to remember me every time we meet, she’s been dating Nathan for a few months now and we have met several times. I have no idea how he spends time with this woman. She seems so opposite of the type of person I would pick for him—they all do.

“Kelsey! It’s me, Bree. Remember?” Nathan’s best friend since high school. The woman who was here before you and will be here well after you. REMEMBER ME?!

She releases a big puff of air and lets her shoulders sag in relief. “Oh my gosh, Bree! You scared me to death. I thought you were some stalker girl who broke in somehow.” She sets the knife down, raises one of her perfectly manicured eyebrows, and mumbles not so quietly, “But then again . . . you sort of are.”

I narrow my eyes at her with a tight smile. “Nathan up yet?”

It’s 6:30 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, so I know for a fact he’s already awake. Any girlfriend of Nathan’s knows if she wants to see him at all that day, she has to wake up just as early as he does. Which is why Satin-PJ-Kelsey is standing in the kitchen looking pissed off. No one appreciates the morning quite like Nathan. Well, except for me—I love it too. But we’re sort of weirdos.

She turns her head slowly to me, hate burning in her delicate baby blues. “Yes. He’s in the shower.”

Before our run?

Kelsey looks at me like it grieves her deeply to have to expound. “I accidentally bumped into him when I came into the kitchen a few minutes ago. He had his protein shake in his hand and . . .” She makes an annoyed gesture, letting it finish the story for her: I dumped Nathan’s shake down the front of him. I think it’s killing her to admit she did something human, so I take pity on her and turn away to set the donut box down on the ridiculously large center island.

Nathan’s kitchen is fantastic. It’s designed in monochromatic tones of cream, black, and brass, and an expansive window wall overlooks the ocean. It’s my favorite place in the world to cook, and exactly the opposite of my dumpy little garbage bin five blocks down the road. But that dumpy little garbage bin is affordable and close to my ballet studio, so all in all, I can’t complain.

“I’m sure it wasn’t a big deal. Nathan never gets upset about things like that,” I say to Kelsey, waving my white flag one last time.

She takes out her samurai sword and slices it to shreds. “I already know that.”

Alrighty then.

I take my first sip of coffee and let it warm me under Kelsey’s frigid stare. Nothing to do but wait for Nathan to surface so we can get going with our Tuesday tradition. It dates all the way back to our junior year of high school. I was a sort of self-designated loner in those days, not because I didn’t love people or socializing, but because I lived and breathed ballet. My mom used to encourage me to skip dance occasionally to go to a party and be with my friends. “These days of getting to just be a kid and have fun won’t last forever. Ballet isn’t everything. It’s important to build a life outside of it too,” she said to me on more than one occasion. And of course, like most dutiful teenagers . . . I didn’t listen.

Between dancing and my after-school job working in a restaurant, I didn’t really have friends. But then he happened. I wanted to increase my endurance, so I started running at our school’s track before school, and the only day I could make this happen schedule-wise was on Tuesdays. I showed up one morning and was shocked to see another student already running. Not just any student, but the captain of the football team. Mr. Hottie McHotterson. (Nathan didn’t have an awkward phase. He looked like a twenty-five-year-old at sixteen. So unfair.)

Jocks were supposed to be rude. Chauvinistic. Full of themselves. Not Nathan. He saw me in my scuffed-up sneakers, curly hair piled on my head in the grossest bun anyone has ever seen, and he stopped running. He came over and introduced himself with his huge trademark smile and asked if I wanted to run with him. We talked the entire time, instant best friends with so much in common, despite our different upbringings.

Yeah, you guessed it—he comes from a wealthy family. His dad is the CEO of a tech company and has never shown much interest in Nathan unless he’s showing him off on the golf course in front of his work friends, and his mom pretty much just hung around and badgered him to make it to the top and bring her into the limelight with him. They always had money, but what they didn’t have until Nathan made it big was social standing. In case you can’t tell, I’m not a huge fan of his parents.

So anyway, thus began our Tuesday tradition. And the exact moment I fell for Nathan? I can pinpoint it down to the second.

We were on our final lap of that very first run together when his hand caught mine. He tugged me to a stop then bent down in front of me and tied my shoe. He could have just told me it was untied, but no—Nathan’s not like that. It doesn’t matter who you are or how famous he is; if your shoe is untied, he’s going to tie it for you. I’ve never met anyone else like that. I was so gone for him from day one.

We were both so determined to achieve success, despite how young we were. He always knew he’d end up in the NFL, and I knew I was headed to Juilliard and then to dance in a company after. One of those dreams became a reality, and one did not. Unfortunately, we lost touch during college (fine, I made us lose touch), but I serendipitously moved to LA after graduating when a friend told me about another friend who was looking to hire an assistant instructor at her dance studio just as Nathan signed with the LA Sharks and moved to town as well.

We bumped into each other at a coffee shop, he asked if I wanted to go for a jog on Tuesday for old time’s sake, and the rest was history. Our friendship picked right back up as if no time had passed at all, and unfortunately, my heart still pined for him the same as it had back then too.

The funny thing is, Nathan was never projected to reach the heights in his career that he has. Nope, Nathan Donelson was drafted in the seventh round, and he effectively warmed the bench as a backup quarterback for two whole years. He never got discouraged, though. He worked harder, trained harder, and made sure he was ready if his time came to take the field, because that’s how Nathan approaches everything in life: with nothing but 100 percent effort.

And then one day, it all paid off for him.

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Born and raised in Nashville TN, Sarah Adams loves her family, warm days, and making people smile. Sarah has dreamed of being a writer since she was a girl, but finally wrote her first novel when her daughters were napping and she no longer had any excuses to put it off.

Sarah is a coffee addict, a British history nerd, a mom of two daughters, married to her best friend, and an indecisive introvert. Her hope is to always write stories that make you laugh, maybe even cry; but always leave you happier than when you started reading.

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Book Review: “The Cheat Sheet” by Sarah Adams, Tropes: Football Romance, Friends to Lovers, Fake Dating, Slow Burn, Rating: 4⭐️ & 0-1🌶️.•This book has been sitting on my bookshelves for months now and I picked it on a whim and I am so happy I did. It reminded me a lot of “The Seven Year Slip”, not plot wise, but because I was not expecting how much I enjoyed it. This was also my first football romance and first ballerina/dance-related romance books and I loved both themes. Does anyone know any other sports romance books with either football or dance as major themes? I’d love to get my feet wet and explore more!•Below are some of my favorite quotes:-“We want to know how you can be best friends with that god among men and not hit it. Ew, don’t say hit it. My business with my friend is my own, not yours. But you love him, right?”-“Every inch of me tingles with awareness, and I mentally begin mapping out every way she fits perfectly in my arms”.-“We need to kiss, on the red carpet. I can’t kiss you out there! OMG, our first kiss can’t be in front of paparazzi! Do you want me to kiss you now? No absolutely not! Well, maybe, actually yes”.-“Not my man yet. Bree, he’s been your man for years”.
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Jessica Anne Fordham
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing romcom!
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2023
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This is my first book by Sarah Adams and I’m telling you right now that I need to read everything she has ever written as soon as possible. This book had all the good things I love in a romance! Friends to lovers, fake dating, mutual pining, slow burn… it is sweet and adorable. The way they each love each other and think of the other person first, even in their friendship is so beautiful. Nathan and Bree are relationship goals!

I love the way the story portrays the whole football team as a bunch of goofballs and softies, I am going to let myself live in the fantasy that that is how real NFL players are! The way they help Nathan is so fun and all the banter with them and how accept Bree is 🥰

This book is funny, sweet, emotional, deep… basically all the things! I am obsessed and could legitimately reread it over and over again. New comfort read for me for sure when I need a little love and joy and sweetness!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Super cute read
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Short, fun, and entertaining read. Enjoyed the storyline, both main characters, and wonderful supporting characters!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, fun clean read!!!
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"I'm a woman with very opinionated ovaries, and let me tell you, they're real hussies."

Please please please read this! It's rom-com perfection!! I laughed, I cried, I wanted to hang out with the characters IRL!!! Bree and Nathan are both realistic and relatable and lovable! I want to hang out with Nathan's buddies!! The white board scene had me rolling I was laughing so hard!! IYKYK!

"I think he missed his calling as Hitch, because he's exactly right."

I couldn't put this one down and read it all in one sitting!!! I love Sarah's writing style - it's funny and heartwarming and entertaining!! I'll read anything she rights!! I can't wait to jump into The Rule Book although I really wish we'd gotten Jamal and Larence's stories!!!
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I wanted to like this story more than I did because its heart is in the right place, but ultimately, it didn't work for me, but it might for you. First, the positives, the characters, including Nathan's teammates, were charming and likable. Plus, there were many genuinely funny moments here. What didn't work for me was the story and pacing, which dragged on repeating the same point over and over--they can't admit they are in love with each other for fear of losing their friendship. This went on for 3/4 of the book. Also, this felt more like a YA book to me, not just because it was closed-door, but the characters felt very young in terms of the romance aspect of their lives. Because of this, I didn't buy into the ending. The plot just felt very contrived. Sadly, I just don't think this author's work is for me; but if you're looking for books full of comedy and squicky wholesomeness that is more fairy-tale than real-life than her books might be perfect for you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars SO AMAZING!
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I used to despise reading and hated just the thought of it really. But after I found out about this book I was very intrigued. From the first chapter I knew I was hooked! The humor and adorable love story of Bree and Nathan is so heartwarming! I couldn’t wait to turn the page and see what happened next. I’ve never been so invested in reading something in my entire life and I dreaded the moment when I would have to finish the book. I just wanted the sweet love story to go on forever. I also cannot tell you how many times I physically laughed out loud at this book! The love story was beautiful and the way their story was written was perfect! But I think my favorite part was the fact that I literally couldn’t stop smiling the whole time I read this book! It was so funny and quirky and fits my personality to a T! Overall the best book I’ve probably ever read and I would definitely recommend a 100% if you love cute, quirky, sweet, heartwarming, love stories!

And…….NO SMUT!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining but imperfect
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I was 20% of the way into the book & feeling disappointed. It was following the cookie cutter friends-to-lovers pattern. In fairness, though, I must admit that it's one of my least favorite tropes. One of the reasons it isn't a favorite is because the plot is so limited: lifelong friends who secretly love each other but don't want to say anything lest they ruin the friendship. There are so few variations available within that, so it's like reading the same story almost every time.

Happily, at 21% we meet Nathan's awesome teammates, & it's a new ballgame! So to speak. Nathan's teammates as his romance advisors were pretty hilarious. Bree's sister Lily is fun, too - and it really helps that she gets to say the things to Bree that the reader badly wants to.

Nathan knows Bree went thru some dark stuff, but he's not entirely sure what happened, & he doesn't want to shake up her world too much. And it's a smart approach because Bree is frustratingly fragile.

And that's the main problem with this otherwise fun book - Bree's issues are dragged out to the point that she looks like she shouldn't have stopped therapy. The constant fear & foot dragging are overdone. The actual forward development is regularly pushed into the background by her constant lusty obsession with his body competing with her nearly schizophrenic effort to keep him friendzoned long past the point where it's even remotely reasonable. It makes it difficult to believe how quickly she seems to move past those fears & into the strong confidence she displays once she fiiinally decides to chance it.

Thankfully, the storyline takes another turn as we discover that Nathan is struggling with some things, too. When the focus is on their love for each other, it's a really touching story.

Frankly, in the hands of a less competent author, this would've been a 3 or 3.5 star rating, & like others, I was disappointed that the tone of this book is a bit more lowbrow than her previous efforts, but Sarah Adams does write entertaining dialogue, so I'm giving it a 4.

*Romance level: passionate kisses, nothing graphic - though there are references to sex, impotence, celibacy, "dingaling", boobs, nude photos, a stereotypical gay hair dresser, + a wedding night scene with some undressing before things fade-to-black

*Language: about 3 dozen of the common swears
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Laura @ Beautiful Books
5.0 out of 5 stars Prepare to swoon
Reviewed in Mexico on August 26, 2021
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It is no secret that I love all things cute and also every single thing I've ever read by @authorsarahadams so it really should come as no surprise that I loved The Cheat Sheet and wish could get my hands on a Nathan ASAP!

What did I love about this book you ask? First, the P I N I N G, ooof the pining was so good friends and watching those idiots pine for each other made me wish I had a hot best friend of the male variety.

Second, the banter. We all know (or maybe you don't) that I'm a woman of banter and when relationships have the right amount of it I just get suckered in. And these two had banter to spare while at the same time balancing that with a deep knowledge of each other that was just *chef’s kiss*

Third, dimples. That is it, that is the tweet. Dimples. Love them.

Fourth, Nathan is too sexy for his own good and has a self-sacrificial heart of love that knows how to restrain itself for love and I dig that. I want that!

So, if you haven't grabbed a copy for yourself you should really get on that and then grab yourself every other book Sarah has put out because they're just that good.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent From Start to Finish
Reviewed in Canada on August 18, 2021
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This book was excellent. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that I loved everything about it. I especially appreciated the obvious affection and chemistry between Bree and Nathan, as well as the dynamics added by the supporting characters.

There were no explicit scenes in this book, but I don’t think it suffered in any way for this. The love and connection between Bree and Nathan was still palpable.

I’m glad that I had the day off because I really didn’t want to put this book down. It drew me in and did exactly what Sarah Adams claims to want from her writing: it left me feeling happier than I felt before I started reading it.

I hope this is the beginning of a series because I would love to see Nathan’s teammates get coupled off. They were so sweet and endearing.
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Wir haben die spritzige und absolut authentische Bree, welche ihren Traum Ballerina zu werden aufgeben musste und nun super glücklich damit ist Ballettlehrerin für finanziell schlechter gestellte Mädchen zu sein. Doch leider verdient man damit nicht die Welt und sie weigert sich konsequent Geld von ihrem besten Freund Nathan, einem American Football Profi in der NFL, anzunehmen.
Nathan wiederum kann sich nicht vorstellen ein Leben ohne Bree zu führen und würde jederzeit ihr den Vorzug vor allen anderen Frauen geben, die meistens sowieso nur hinter Ruhm und Fame her sind.
Durch den unglücklichen Umstand, dass Bree betrunken versehentlich Geheimnisse ausplaudert landen die Zwei in einer Fake-Dating-Situation.

Meinung:
Das Buch ist eine 6/5 Sternen. Da man als Leser durch die wechselnden POVs fast allwissend ist, ist diese Spannung und Anziehung die zwischen Bree und Nathan aufgebaut wird, einfach next level. Was Nathan für Bree macht und andersherum, diese tiefe Verbundenheit und das Wissen was sie über den jeweils anderen haben macht diese Story einfach so besonders.

Es ist eine Closed-Door-Story. Ich hatte jedoch NIE das Gefühl, dass etwas gefehlt hat. Im Gegenteil. Denn Bree und Nathan sind so tiefsinnige und besondere Charaktere, jede Bettszene hätte das Bild von ihnen geändert und ich denke nicht unbedingt zum Positiven.

Bree ist selbstlos und achtet sehr darauf, dass es ihren Mitmenschen gut geht und Nathan ist der Gegenpart, welcher dafür sorgt, dass Bree sich darüber hinaus nicht selber vergisst.
Man merkt wie sehr Nathan für American Football brennt und dass er ein ambitionierter Sportler ist und Bree ist sein Gegenpart, welcher ihn daran erinnert, dass das Leben auch mehr zu bieten hat.

Ohne großes Drama und mit einer humorvollen Leichtigkeit schafft es dieses Buch den Leser einzufangen und erst loszulassen, wenn es zu Ende ist.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best kind of quirky
Reviewed in Spain on June 5, 2023
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Spoiler: No third act break up—thankfully! Was the writing immaculate? No. Did it give all the feels? Hell yes and then some. This is everything I needed and will become a reread.
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