Review: Homecoming King - Book #1 Three Kings Series - Penny Reid - December 2021
What do you do when you get
stuck in a reading rut? I tried two books this morning and nothing clicked for
me, they were just blah. So I continued to scroll through my Libby App and came
across Penny Reid's Homecoming King. One that had been on my list for a while
and also a book that I knew I would enjoy as this author has never failed me.
If you want quirky characters, a little awkward, and lots of laughs, then Penny
Reid is the author for you. Homecoming King is Book #1 in her Three Kings
series and we first meet our female character Abby, she is tending a bar when a
huge bulky man comes in just before closing. That man turns out to be Rex
McMurtry. He is now a pro footballer and famous, but for Abby - he is the guy
who she had a crush on right through school, the only one worthy of having his
name doodled in her notebook. The pair went from kindergarten to high school
together in the small town of Alenbach and now he's back home and extremely
wasted. Abby feels sorry for him and ends up taking him home and caring for
him. The next day Rex has a proposition for Abby - he needs a fake wife and he
will pay her $1000 a date and a good prenup. This would help Abby pay off her
ex-husband's debts faster as she only has two years left, but Abby isn't one to
be brought. Of course, like any fake romance story, the romance starts not
quite real but somewhere along the book, the line gets blurred and both have
strong feelings. Can Rex prove to Abby who has been burned hard once before,
that he loves her and that this fake marriage was the only way he could get her
to date him in his mind? Will Rex and Abby realize that their too-good-to-be-true
love is real and that they both deserve happiness? Find out all this and more
in this fun quirky romantic comedy by Penny Reid "Homecoming King".
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