Rival Darling
She's got one rule: never date a jock. He'll do whatever it takes to break it. When seventeen-year-old Violet is left heartbroken by the captain of her school's ice hockey team, she vows to never date a jock again. But, in an attempt to prove she's moved on, she turns to the most unlikely...
- Pages
- 374
- First published
- March 23, 2024
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Ebook
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Reviews
Finished September 5, 2026
I was smiling the whole way through reading this, it is so damn cute! The writing style made it feel so addictive and the romance was perfect. I usually don’t enjoy fake dating and I rarely rate YA 5 stars, but this was 6 stars for the vibes alone, it just made me so happy whenever I picked it up. I read 80% of it today, which says it all since I’ve been in an awful slump since July. I absolutely loved Reed, he was the biggest softy and Violet is the luckiest FMC, the way he sacrificed everything for her and was so down bad from the beginning🥹 This is one of my first YA romance reads (I read a couple of those really sad ones like A Thousand Boy Kisses, but they didn’t feel at all similar), and I think I actually prefer the fact that the romance is so tame. It means we get much more character development and more of those swoon worthy moments, rather than them jumping into bed 50% into the book, and not getting back out of it until the epilogue. I really don’t understand all of the negative reviews that reference his figure skating, i think people forget that this is YA, it’s going to be a bit silly and unserious at times, but that just adds to the charm for me. Anyways, I thought it was adorable, but maybe I’m just a sucker for Reed Darling, he can do no wrong🤭