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3.5⭐
Genre ~ MM sports romance
Series ~ Prince Pact #1
Setting ~ Ohio
Publication date ~ March 25, 2025
Publisher ~ Boldwood Books
Est Page Count ~ 282 (p+ 30 chapters +e)
Audio length ~ 8 hours 4 minutes
Narrators ~ Charlie Klæboe Svensson, Barclay Craig
POV ~ dual 1st
Featuring ~ double bi~awakening, lots of soccer, grumpy/sunshine, opposites attract, enemies to lovers, some steamage
Tore & Farron
Tore has left Norway to go to university in the states. He wants to stay incognito and doesn’t tell anyone that he’s a Prince and 4th in line to the throne. He’s really excited to play soccer and learn about a different culture than he’s used to. He wasn’t expecting to get the evil eye from a certain teammate over and over again for no reason.
Farron is the captain of the soccer team and isn’t too thrilled to have a new foreign rich boy on his team. It’s a classic case of a poor boy judging a book by its fancy cover without seeing what’s inside first. Assume could be his middle name. This made it take quite a while for me to warm up to him. However, I did love how committed he was to his family. I loved the Thanksgiving chapter and how Tore was welcomed with open arms and truly seemed like he enjoyed spending time with them.
Overall, I definitely had to picture these two as adults and not college age, but I felt their awakening was realistic. The epilogue was a nice look into what’s happening in 3 years.
Cover gripe ~ Farron is on the left and Tore is on the right. Tore is blonde and Farror is dark haired.
Narration notes:
I did not listen to this one, but am just giving the above info for reference. I am happy to see there are 2 narrators being both characters are male.
Book blurb:
I’m determined to win over the one guy who hates me…but I never expected to fall for him
Being a prince may seem like a fairytale, but to me, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. That’s why I’m excited when I get permission from my uncle—the king of Norway—to go undercover as a student at an American college for a year. And I’m even more ecstatic to be selected for their football team. Soccer, I mean. The only problem? Farron, the team captain, dislikes me on sight. Determined to win him over, I start a charm offensive, but nothing works. He only hates me more.
Until the animosity comes to an explosive release…and we end up kissing each other. How did that happen when neither of us has ever been attracted to a guy before? Farron wants to let it run its course and get it out of our system, but I doubt that’ll work. I’m falling for him hard, but he has no idea who I really am. I fear that if he finds out, he’ll never speak to me again…
The Prince and the Player is the first book in the Prince Pact series and features an undercover, sunshiney prince and a grumpy, handsome soccer captain, two guys who mistake hate for attraction, a double bi-awakening, and two opposites who attract each other like magnets.
The royally romantic, enemies-to-lovers college romance for fans of Casey McQuiston, Alexis Hall and Jax Calder.
Purchase Link – https://mybook.to/theprinceandtheplayer
Author Bio –
Nora Phoenix is a USA Today Bestselling author of over 60MM/gay romances. As a child, she fell in love with reading, and she’s still an incurable book addict. She started writing as a teenager, and though it took her a while to fulfill her dream of becoming a romance author, she never stopped. She writes in various subgenres of gay romance and is known for writing engrossing stories that offer an escape from reality with unique characters, plenty of heat, a captivating story, and all the feels. Flawed, strong men who are just a tad damaged are her catnip, and she wants to give them all their happily ever after. When she’s not writing or reading, she’s spending time with her son, traveling, or gardening. Originally from The Netherlands, she currently resides in upstate New York.
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