This is my new favorite from Sarah Adams! I love friends to lovers romances and Bree and Nathan's was so sweet. This was such a good book and I definitely recommend it!

*Chandler’s voice*
COULD I BE ANYMORE IN LOVE WITH THIS BOOK?
(The Friends references have me like 😍)

Sarah Adams has a way with words, and this sports romance story of Nathan and Bree has captured my heart.🦞🦞 It’s pure, raw, honest, beautiful, cute, sweet, sexual, and clean, all wrapped up into one big present! This slow burn, best friends to lovers, fake dating trope had me on my toes and rooting for the both of them throughout the entire story! …and just like Adams other books, I highly recommend you pick this one up!

Nathan, a (sexy) professional football player 🏈 and Bree, a ballet 🩰 dancer/teacher have been good friends since they met in high school. They lost touch for a few years but eventually reconnected as adults and have been best friends for 6 years again now.

One drunken night when Bree has had too much to drink, she accidentally expresses her feelings (on camera for the world to see!) for Nathan - and this opens up the question of ‘What if?’….

All I have to say is I am pumped for this author’s next book! I just cannot seem to get enough of her stories!

Trigger Warning: Anxiety, panic attacks

Sarah Adams is one of my all-time favorites and she scored a game-winning touchdown with The Cheat Sheet! It will for sure be one of my favorites of the year!

Prepare to have your heart explode! This friends-to-lovers story is adorable, laugh-out-loud funny, and full of so many sweet and tender moments that my heart exploded. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

I just loved Bree and Nathan. Their friendship is so sweet and as the reader you can just see the love they have for each other. I wanted to shout, “JUST TELL EACH OTHER HOW YOU FEEL ALREADY” but where is the fun in that? Their story is a very slow burn, but Sarah Adams gives us just enough to keep us happy and thoroughly invested as the story progresses!

The dual perspectives works so perfectly, but Nathan stole the show for me. I loved hearing his thoughts and feelings and he was just so swoony! He is now among one of my top book boyfriends. Nathan does deal with anxiety and panic attacks in the story and I related even more to him as he learns more about himself and his limits. If you are questioning my love, just know I had to buy a Los Angeles Sharks sweatshirt to display my love for Nathan with pride! I have no shame!

Seriously if you have not read a book by Sarah Adams yet, you need to remedy that immediately! If you love cozy and sweet closed door contemporary romances with a little bit of sizzle and that will leave a smile on your face, you have to read The Cheat Sheet!

Thank you so much to Sarah Adams and Netgalley for the gifted copy! All opinions are my own.

If you’re into a rom-com in a book or a fun friends-to-lovers read, this one is for YOU!⁣⁣
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I feel like I’ve been a fan of Sarah Adams for forever, but in reality, it’s been just over a year! (Quickest longest year ever, am I right?!)⁣⁣
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The Cheat Sheet definitely gives you all the steam, but it leaves that door shut! Not bolted. But shut. ⁣⁣
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The last part was my fave, but I can’t tell you why without spoiling it. 😜 I love Sarah’s sense of humor and all of her pop culture references. The lead male character being a quarterback was a fun addition as well! He felt a little more Brady than Ben or Aaron, but that’s okay. The Match remains on top for me, but I always enjoy a new book from Sarah Adams! Definitely check her out! (Not her, but her books. Obvs)

3.5 stars.

A book that feels like your wrapped in a big, warm, cozy blanket 💗 The Cheat Sheet by @authorsarahadams is exactly that and more.

This is my first book by Sarah and it won’t be my last.

👩‍❤️‍👨 Friends to lovers trope
❤️ the best cheesy nicknames < Bree Cheese > 🧀
👨‍⚕️ Mental Health awareness
🔥 Sarah is able to create so much closed door steam, you don’t need to read it to know that it’s there
🏈 Nathan is a sexy quarterback
🍯 This book is just so dang sweet
👯‍♀️ Bree and her sister had me laughing out loud and I loved there relationship
👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 The supporting characters in this book are so much fun!

Heartwarming and swoon worthy, definitely make this your next read.

Thank you @authorsarahadams and @netgalley for my copy. If you are wanting to support an Indie author then Sarah is the perfect choice!

Are we even surprised that Sarah Adams has written YET ANOTHER 5 star read? She has so much talent for developing super intense chemistry even though her romances are closed door.

Bree is such a selfless and caring character that I really enjoyed. You can see her passion for serving others through her line of work, and in her personality in general. She's also absolutely HILARIOUS and had me laughing throughout the whole book! For my thoughts on Nathan... hmm. Let's just say he has been added to my never ending list of book boyfriends. He's so sweet, protective, and just a genuinely good man. I loved seeing how passionately he felt about Bree.

There was a scene towards the end (that I will not spoil) but I just have to say, it definitely made me teary. The raw emotions and feelings that Sarah Adams were able to portray were just amazing. I really loved her incorporation of mental health in this book as well.

Overall, this was an extremely well written friends to lovers book and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys romance!

Dear Mrs. Adams,
Do you know what is fun? Reading a well-written book. Do you know what is more fun? Reading a book that is not only well-written but one that also makes the characters jump off the page and come alive, that makes you laugh out loud multiple times, and that makes you alternately tear up and grin like a fool because you’re so invested in what’s happening. That is what this book is. There was so much grinning like a fool. So much! And laughing right out loud. Let me tell ya, I am not easily a “laugh out loud” person. I’m more typically a “give a sardonic side grin because I find the line marginally funny but then I’m moving on” kind of person. But I was busting a gut several times. SEVERAL! In fact, your book kept me company in the middle of the night while I was up nursing my newborn baby and it was difficult to rein in the laughter enough that I wouldn’t wake my sleeping husband! So you are very good at delivering the funny lines. The whole time I was reading I kept thinking about how good you are at writing these RomComs!
Nathan and Bree are adorable. Absolutely, wonderfully, positively adorable. I’m a huge fan of the friends-to-lovers trope so this just made me so happy. I admit I nearly eye rolled a bit at Bree thinking Nathan didn’t like her because come on. The guy was adorably—and obviously—head over heels in love. But I guess I’ll cut her some slack because he did send mixed signals, too.
I loved how much Nathan’s friends were involved in getting Nathan and Bree together. They were hilarious. I love how much they loved Bree. It was fun thinking of these giant men being wrapped around this petite girl’s finger and her not even realizing it. The cheat sheet might have been my favorite thing. Adorable. Absolutely adorable! (Is it possible to say that word too many times?)
As I am coming to expect from you, the mental health pieces in your story were spot on and timely and so well done. None of it felt contrived or preachy (as if you were trying to force the consideration of mental health down my throat), but it flowed smoothly as a natural part of each character. Warning: I’m about to get loud. Plug your ears. I LOVED THAT YOU WROTE A HERO WHO WAS STRONG BUT ALSO CLEARLY NEEDED HELP!! He wasn’t entirely macho man. I mean, he was a little, but he also trusted Bree with his vulnerabilities. Just uuhhhhh. So much love for that. SO MUCH! (Oops, sorry I didn’t warn you this time.) I also loved Bree’s recognition of how important it is to have a passion in a healthy manner and that it is easy to go overboard and start striving for perfection. I looooooved the scenes with her students in her ballet studio and how much she wanted to develop a connection with those girls and give them a safe place. We need Brees in this world.
Now, let’s talk about the ending. Oh my gosh, the ending!! Insert all the heart eyes here. I don’t think I stopped smiling for the entire final few chapters. How could I? It was so perfect. It was cute, yes, but there was also depth of human character there that gave an air of importance. So much growth for the people I had come to love in those few chapters. You really knocked it out of the park with that ending! It’s perfection.
Jamal, Derek, Lawrence, and Price were hilarious and I love each of them. Please tell me you have plans to give them each a little story of their own? Pretty please? Wouldn’t that be a fun series? Lovers of the NFL? That’s a terrible title series; you could do better than that. But the idea is a good one! I think you should do it!
Thanks again for a clean, sweet romance that is still filled with heart, deep humanness, and amazing romance. I always look forward to what you give us and you manage to deliver every time. You’re good. Very good. Thanks, Sarah!
Your devoted reader,
Jessica

Note: this is a closed-door romance; no on-page sex but you know what happened; steamy kissing, mentions tongue, mentions nudity; 4-5 swear words, as well as word b**bs; social drinking; manipulative and demanding parents; anxiety and panic attack; depression mentioned; job loss


Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Thanks to the author and NetGalley for my advanced copy. All thoughts are from my own self.

A fun romcom by an amazing author! I loved these new characters and the way the author handled the trope. If you like humor and swoony, well-written scenes, then The Cheat Sheet is perfect for you.

I absolutely loved this book. It did drive me a little nuts with how long it took things to take off but overall it had a happy ending so I’m happy. I loved their devotion to each other. I love a good friends to lovers and I feel like sarah nailed this one!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔥🔥 (closed door)

Y’all! Every time I think “Sarah’s not gonna be able to top this book!” She goes and does it again! The Cheat Sheet has ALL the swoon, all the banter, and gives me all the smiles! Seriously, your face will hurt from smiling so much. I read this RomCom in one sitting - laughed out loud (multiple times), cried, and absolutely cherished every. single. second. of this read.

I LOVED Bree and Nathan so freaking much. Their friendship was so sweet and playful, and I love loved the dual POV so we can see inside both of their heads and how they’re feeling about one another. Nathan is the book boyfriend to beat all book boyfriends, and Bree has so much heart and is such a carefree spirit.

I think Sarah did such an amazing job balancing everything in this book. Between the side stories nothing dragged or felt like it was being overly done or shadowed the love story. There are scenes with anxiety and anxiety attacks, and they were written so, so well. My heart ached reading them!

But overall this book is just the most fun, swoony, flirty, slaps you in the face with happiness RomCom and you need it!

The Cheat Sheet comes out NEXT WEEK!! You can pre-order it RIGHT NOW on @amazon - I just ordered mine! 🙌🏼

(Thank you @netgalley for the gifted copy in exchange for an honest review)

Sarah writes very cute, fluffy books. I do find that the characters are similar in all her stories and are lacking unique qualities to make them stand out. I also struggled with this friends to lovers trope and the age of the characters; I struggled not being frustrated that two grown adults could not have an open and honest conversation about their feelings. I know a lot of people really enjoyed this one - Sarah has a unique writing style that you really love or don't.

If you're looking for a book that will make you laugh and swoon, then you need to pick up THE CHEAT SHEET (or any of Sarah Adams books, honestly).

Bree and Nathan are best friends who are secretly (or not so secretly if you ask their friends!) pining for one another. It's a slow-burn, closed door romance, but as usual, Sarah brings the chemistry between these two!

Nathan is a total sweetheart, Bree is funny and quirky and they are both super wholesome. At times, Bree came off as a little immature and I wanted something more from both of them: some angst or grumpiness or alpha male vibes from Nathan maybe. However, if you love wholesome characters and a cinnamon roll hero, then these two are IT.

I also liked Nathan's football buddies and got Bromance Book Club vibes as they try to help Nathan take his relationship with Bree from friends to something more.

Read this if you like:
- friends to lovers
- fake dating
- slow burn
- dual POV
- sweet, wholesome characters
- great side characters
- mental health rep

I've read every book Sarah Adams has ever written and really enjoyed them all, but The Cheat Sheet is far and beyond my favorite. I was fortunate enough to receive an ARC from NetGalley, which means I've also been fortunate enough to re-read this book three times already, and I am sure there will be many more re-reads in the future. Yes, this book is THAT good.

I love a good friends to lovers story, but I am always disappointed in stories where the characters are "friends," but one of them (usually the guy) treats the other as a disposable friend or has little regard for the friendship or only shows up as a friend when it's convenient. We are then supposed to be impressed that this crappy "friend" finally sees the light and treats the other person (usually a doormat female character) with love and respect. And I am sorry, but that never feels very great or magical to me. Cue The Cheat Sheet, in which Nathan and Bree have ALWAYS (with the exception of one difficult period where external circumstances got in the way) been legitimately good friends to one another. Each person shows up for other, each person celebrates the other person's triumphs, each person offers empathy when the other is facing a challenge. This makes it SO MUCH MORE MAGICAL when they go from best friends to lovers. (For another example of this phenomenon, compare Book Mal to TV Mal. I would die for TV Mal, but I want to kick Book Mal in the teeth.) It's all about the quality of the friendship when it comes to friends to lovers, and Sarah Adams nails it here.

I also loved the way that Adams addressed anxiety in the book. She treated the subject with sensitivity and empathy, and that came through so clearly in the book. That laundry room scene, man. I bawled my head off. This book is happy and funny and joyful, but it has a weight to it that I feel like we haven't seen in Sarah's previous books and the story is all the more beautiful for that.

I also loved many of the secondary characters and really hope they get their own stories down the road!

A tale of two best friends who have so many romantic feelings and secrets they can no longer tell reality from ‘contract’.

Arc kindly provided by the publisher, via netgalley ..

SPOILERS BELOW


Sarah Adams does it again. She never fails to put a huge smile on my face, as I flip page by page!

This may be my favourite read yet by Sarah!

The story of Bree and Nathan is one that with light up my heart for a long time. You will fall in love with both characters from the first chapter.

Best friends in high school, it seems that Nathan will do anything for Bree, as she will for him. This very ‘innocent’ friendship is thrown into a ‘fake’ romance after Bree’s drunken conversation with a reporter, where she basically confesses her love for Nathan in a bathroom. Que the dramatic changes….

A very embarrassed Bree has no idea that despite the ‘fake relationship’ contract that is developed between her and Nathan (due to some major public attention after the bathroom drama), that her best friend, the football star she has secretly fantasized about since high school, feels the EXACT. SAME. WAY. and he takes this opportunity to work with the rest of the football team to come up with a plan to make it REAL.

Nathan and Bree both obviously have significant feelings for one another, more ROMANTIC feelings… In an old-fashioned, friends become lovers read, you will not be disappointed by the swoon worthy transformation of this relationship. Not even a tide-stick can erase the chemistry between these two...

Bree and Nathan have been secretly in love with each other since they first met in highschool. After a drunken night lands Bree in the spotlight admitting her feelings for Nathan, they are thrown into a fake relationship contract. Which Bree tries, maybe a little too hard, to constantly remind Nathan that it is just fake. But after a series of fun "plays" Nathan and his friends come up with to get him out of the friend zone, Bree finally starts to see that maybe their friendship isn't as platonic as she always thought.

Bree is quirky, awkward and unapologetically herself. She has the biggest heart and does everything she can to help everyone around her, no matter the sacrifices she has to make herself. & The way she helps comfort Nathan during his panic attack was everything🥺

Nathan is such a caring and vulnerable man, despite his upbringing. He has such a strong head on his shoulders and surrounds himself with such amazing friends. And the way he has secretly been helping Bree was swoony♥️

I LOVE a good friends-to-lovers romance. And this one quickly became my favorite read this year! You can feel how deeply they feel for each other. And the sacrifices they both made to hold on to their friendship. The slow burn steam was KILLER. I wanted to jump through my kindle and smosh their faces together.

All. Of. The. Stars.

Sarah Adams has done it again !! This is one of those books that I fell in love with from start to finish. I laughed, I cried, and I enjoyed this read so much. I read it in one sitting & it filled me with so much joy. Not only do I appreciate how this book make my day, I also appreciate the awareness brought to mental health issues. It had the right amount of banter, and romance.

Bree & Nathan have a platonic relationship. They have been best friends for years, but they secretly have feelings for one another.
Can they move past the friendzone with out hurting their relationship?

I loved the dual POV, & the friends to fake dating to lovers trope. It’s based in sunny Los Angeles, which to me makes the perfect read before summer ends ! I absolutely recommend it and rate it 5/5 stars !!

Happiest of release days to the latest masterpiece by Sarah Adams! If you have not picked up one of her books yet, what are you waiting for??? Doooo iiiitt. And you should start with The Cheat Sheet because it's my new favorite. Huge thanks to Sarah and Netgalley for my advance copy of The Cheat Sheet. I already bought a copy for my shelf as soon as they were available, purchased my own SHARKS sweatshirt, and have been wearing my favorite scrunchie daily again since I finished the book two weeks ago!

I have been following Sarah on Instagram for quite a while now, and I absolutely adore her. Honestly, I would love to be real life besties with her! I feel like her personality just shines through her books and the characters that she creates. She is a genuine gem! 

I flew through The Cheat Sheet and then I was so sad for it to be over! Friends to Lovers isn't my favorite trope, but Sarah did the damn thing with Nathan and Bree. From the first chapter to that AHHHMAZING HEA, I was constantly grinning like a fool. Here's a few of my favorite things about this one:

* Nathan and Bree's friendship was so sweet! The attraction and affection between the two of them just leapt off the page and I couldn't get enough. I am so glad that Sarah wrote this one in a Dual POV, seeing both the relationship from both sides took it to another level.
* That slooooow burn! And they had a great back story.* I appreciate the realness of the pressure and anxiety on a top performing professional athlete that was represented. Nathan was such a complex and strong character. I absolutely MELTED in that one scene, it was so powerful. IYKYK. I think the seriousness of all that was balanced perfectly with the fun and flirty side of the relationship between Bree and Nathan. 
* Oh, I also loved the friendship and support from Nathan's teammates! If you are also a fan of the Bromance Book Club series, you will be here for it too! My fingers are crossed that Sarah will write a book for Jamal next.

If you are in to light hearted romances that leaves you with all the happy feels, then you need to pick this one up soon!

“I’ve loved you since the day you tied my shoes on the track. You didn’t tell me it was untied, you just tied it.”

Everyone is in love with NFL star, Nathan Donelson. Especially Bree Camden, who happens to be best friends with Nathan. Not knowing that they are both in love with each other, their friendship is strictly platonic. Nathan wants so badly to be out of the friend-zone, but is afraid that she doesn’t feel the same way. However, when Bree goes viral for accidentally confessing her feelings towards Nathan to a journalist while being drunk, they have no choice but to fake date. This is the perfect opportunity for Nathan to show that they’re perfect for each other, so with the help of us teammates they create a “Romance Cheat Sheet”. What will happen when the faking becomes real?

@authorsarahadams did it again with an amazing book! So many moments where I find myself laughing, swooning over the characters and all of the cuteness! Easily a top favorite of mine 👏🏻 The Cheat Sheet will be available on August 17th!

🩰🏈READ IF YOU LIKE🏈🩰:
- friends to lover
- fake dating
- dual POV
- secret mutual pining
- ballerina + NFL player
- Tide-to-Go pens
- cinnamon roll MC
- cw: mentions of depression, anxiety & panic attacks, car accident

What I Loved?
🏈: This is a best friends to lovers, fake dating, sport romance!
🩰: The chemistry between Bree and Nathan was perfect. There is very little steam in this book but it doesn’t need it. The readers can still feel the chemistry between the two main characters jumping off the page.
🏈: Sarah’s books always make me laugh out loud and this one was no different.
🩰: Nathan’s love for Bree. Even though he knew she would hate it, I loved that he had been paying the rent on her studio.
🏈: The pieces about panic disorder- especially since it was Nathan, the hero football player, that was struggling. Just because they are a highly paid famous athlete doesn’t mean they don’t struggle.

Sarah Adams continues to exceed my expectations with each of her books! What's funny about The Cheat Sheet was how closely I followed her Instagram posts about the plot, the book cover, the release date for the ebook/paperback, and her enthusiasm when she found out the narrators for the audiobook AND YET, I WAS SO WRONG ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK! I was sold the moment I knew Sarah Adams had another book cooking and was willing to embrace a YA novel about friendship to love in high school. So when I started reading about Nathan, the handsome pro-athlete and Bree the cute, bubbly, nap-loving dance instructor, I quickly realized how risky it is to judge a book by its cover and fell more in love with this book and the surprises within its pages.

Bree Camden is truly head over heels in love with her bestie Nathan Donelson, but alas, she tries her best to maintain her role as his bestie. All is well, until Bree accidentally spills her guts to a reporter and the clip goes viral. Suddenly, Bree and Nathan are thrown into a fake-dating situation to boost both of their public reputations.

Guys, this book is CUUTTTEEEE! I love their flirty banter, their faux-pas, and mostly, I love their inner-monologues that sometimes accidentally spill out of their mouths. Truly the two of them are cute as pie. I think all of us want friends like Bree and Nathan. They are loyal almost to a fault and their fears of losing one another's friendship is often what's standing in between the slow-burn turning into a full fireworks show.

If you are a lover of Sarah Adams' novels, you NEED to add this one to your collection! If you haven't tried a book of hers yet, this is a great place to start! You won't regret it!