A short piece of heaven from Tessa Bailey! She writes in such an easy to read way and I wish I had more time with these characters.

Spicy hockey novella! I really loved Somner. His name is so different. I could have done without calling a vulva a *unt constantly tho lol its just so weird. I didn't love the start to their relationship it felt icky but it got way better!

Thank you netgalley for the earc in exchange for an honest review

Same Time Next Year🎆
By Tessa Bailey♾️

Review❤️

This was a sweet and spicy New Year's novella that you could read in a night. A marriage of convenience where they end up falling in love! The MMC was obsessed with calling the FMC his wife, and I was here for it. The FMC doesn’t trust anyone, and the MMC is ready to settle down. I absolutely love a possessive man, and this gave me exactly that. Extremely fast paced and a very easy read!

He falls first🥰
Marriage of convenience💍
Hockey romance🏒
Touch her and die😈
Golden retriever mmc🐕

4 stars
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This was a cute and quick, slightly spicy novella with a marriage of convenience trope. I enjoyed it and am excited to read more by Tessa Bailey. Thank you to NetGalley and Amazon Original Stories for providing me with an Advance Reader's Copy (ARC).

Read from December 1st, 2023. to December 2nd, 2023. Written on December 3rd, 2023.

~4.5~

Short review for a short book.

Loved the writing, very dainty and fun to read. Loved the fact that it was a dual-POV.

The characters were easy to like and relate to. Character evolutions were also simple yet well handled.

Spice level was...maybe a 3/5? It's explicit and there is dirty talk so, watch out for that if needed.

In an overall, the story was very easy to read, with a solid plot and a good amount of emotion into it. It's a great book to read in one sitting, for sure!

Signing off,
B.

(Free ARC from NetGalley and Amazon Original Stories that I chose to review after reading)

I LOVE LOVE LOVED this story. Sumner is just ugh perfect. It was such a quick read I didn’t wanna put it down! This is only the second hockey romance I’ve ever read and I definitely want to try more! Tessa made you feel for Britta and fall in love with Sumner.

My biggest disappointment with this book was that it wasn't longer! This story was so fun and sweet. I would absolutely read stories about the rest of the team or Sumner's sisters or even Britta and Sumner's story in a longer form. Tremendously enjoyable and my favorite Tessa Bailey read yet! Would love to see more novellas from her.

Thank you to NetGalley, Tessa Bailey and Amazon for allowing me to review this ARC!

Britta has commitment issues stemming from her father leaving when she was younger. Her half brother is a hockey player on the same team as a hunky guy named Sumner! He has fallen head over heels with her and has been that way since he first saw her. One night in order to prevent him from going home to Canada they marry to allow him to retain a green card and continue playing hockey in the states. While getting to know each other Britta starts to realize she has feelings for Sumner as well and her commitment phobia starts to go away. When he is called up for the pros she isn't sure whether to follow him or not, even though they both love each other.

This was a sweet and spicy quick, easy read! I couldn't put the book down and love a story where the male main character falls hopelessly in love with the female main character early on and we have to wait to see how he processes his feelings to her. This book was a slow burn but worth the wait! Definitely would recommend!

I enjoyed this. It's probably closer to 4.5 stars, but not sure I want to round up. I've read some other reviews and I'm confused as to what people expected. This is a sweet novella, not some serious, non-fiction epic. When you read stories like this, you need to take some of the details with a grain of salt since you're here for the story, not the logistics. Britta and Sumner are great together. He fell first and fast while maintaining a protective friendship with her. She's been hurt(probably needs some therapy, but who doesn't?) and is reluctant to get close to Sumner, despite this HUGE favor she's doing for him. It was sweet to see her brother help give her the extra nudge she needed to be strong and go after what she wants. As always, it's well written and honestly there were times where I wanted to cry for Sumner. And Britta. I recommend.

it was cute and short enough. i mean, nothing life changing. i probably wouldn’t read again, or think about it again. i must ask, what type of name is britta? like add one more t and that’s just brita filter.

anyway, thank you NetGalley and publishers for this arc.

A sweet and sexy romance that begins as a business arrangement but doesn't stay that way. Great characters and storyline.

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I started this Novella in the waiting area during the girls dance classes this morning and finished by dinner time. The male lead drew me right into this story and I love a dual POV in a romance. Also, the family drama was very cute.

My favorite quotes:
“With women, problems need to be solved with words. My father taught me that lesson early and reiterated it throughout my life.” -Sumner, Same Time Next Year, Tessa Bailey

“Can you please try to piece together what you’re feeling and communicate it to me?” -Sumner, Same Time Next Year, Tessa Bailey

Read this if you enjoy: fake relationship, marriage of conviction, or hockey romance, and need a quick pick me up read!

🌶️ oh yeah, and the spice level was JUST RIGHT for this story. 🙌

Happy Pub Week @tessabaileyisanauthor!

I received an free digital copy of this novella in exchange for an honest review. Thank you @netgalley & Amazon Original Stories ( @amazonpublishing )

He’s a hot, hockey hunk of a man. She’s sweet, strong and scared of losing the walls she’s built around her heart. Will a marriage of convenience grow into love?

I loved the story and Britta and Sumner. I could not put the book down. Literally consuming this story from Tessa Bailey in one day! At only 109 pages, I was worried that the character development of Britta and Sumner would be lacking or that there would be huge plot holes or gaps in the timeline, but there really wasn’t. The characters were both well developed and while there were some jumps forward in the timeline, they were well documented and didn’t feel as the reader that you were missing time in the plot. I really enjoyed, too, that each chapter changed perspective between Britta and Sumner and seamlessly picked up where the previous chapter left off. I really don’t have any negative comments except to say I’d love to read more of their story!

If you love a good story where he falls first and he falls hard, this one’s for you. Lots of good steamy bits in this as well, for all those of you who enjoy a spicy read! 😜🌶️🥵❤️

It's unbelievable how I loved the first Tessa Bailey book I've ever read, and from there on it just got worse.
I feel thrilled and excited every time she announces a new release, I add them right away to my tbr, and I even wait till I’m sure I really wanna read it… just to end up disappointed every single time. Trust me, I don't wanna complain either, but it's her third book this year alone and now I have to talk about it.

Is the book that bad? Is it her writing? Is it the underskin feeling that this story is addressed to a specific part of the BookTok, while others may just feel like her only concerns were the sex scenes - all from his pov, btw?
That's up to you to decide, what I can say is that it feels off for many reasons.

Besides one of the most unrealistic cliches made in Hollywood - this is not how green cards work at all, and you can't marry someone the day before your expatriation just for staying in that country -, the plot holes were so many in so few pages that I just wonder why don't turn this into a proper book.
Leading the readers during Britta and Sunmer’s romance would have made a big change in the way they acted around each other, and I'm not talking only about the two of them being ALWAYS horny, but also things like picking someone up and putting her in your lap because she’s telling you her sad life story when you don't know her enough to do that.

I’m brutal because I expect something way better from a big name such as hers, and the moment I start acting like an editor is when I drown the line of a book being decent - and it can only go one way from there.
And many of these “issues” were really just editor things that I thought they’d have fixed in the final version: him annoyingly repeating “wife” every two sentences, her just scratching the surface of what happened with her father, they being in their late 20s and her best friends since middle school both already having kids because the author couldn't come up with a better idea, and why - WHY - is this story beginning during a year we haven't even start when she could have set it from New Year’s Eve 2022 and ending it now?!

I wish I could tell you I'm just a hater, and trusting my word or not is up to you, but the reality is that I’m not.
I manifest a lot of unrealizable things every day, so I'm just adding to the list to find another good Tessa Bailey book. In the meantime, I'll have to metaphorically kiss a lot of frogs - aka, I'm gonna read any of her remaining books, so you'll hear from me again.

Thanks to Amazon Original Stories and NetGalley, who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest opinion.

Well this was certainly a novella written by Tessa Bailey. A quick and easy (and spicy!) sports romance with a marriage of convenience turning into the real thing. Where can I find a Sumner??

Really, really cute novella!

I can't wait for Tessa's new series! I love how patiently Sumner was with Britta and the "guys falls first" trope was *chef kiss*.

It was really enjoyable & fast passed. The spice was on point like always.

If you're looking for a quick read with a marriage of convenience and a brother's teammate trope, I would definitely recommend this one.

Same Time Next Year is based around a fake marriage between Sumner and Britta so Sumner has a chance to get called up to a NHL hockey team in the US.

This is a novella so it’s very short but even so Bailey is able to keep a good pace so we don’t get bored or feel it’s moving too fast. Don’t get me wrong, it is fast paced but we’re getting a year long story in under 150 pages so it has to move a little fast.

This wasn’t my favorite Tessa Bailey book but I still enjoyed it and worth reading if you want a nice quick read.

I was provided with a copy via NetGalley to read and review.

Thank you to NetGalley and Amazon Original Stories for the opportunity to read and review an advanced copy of this book.

Cute cover, really wanted to like this, definitely a miss. Would have DNF'd if it wasn't so short to begin with. Completely unrealistic, from the hockey parts to the green card parts to the business ownership parts. Yeah, I get that it's fiction, but I couldn't get past the ridiculous.

This was a very quick read and not my favorite of Tessa Bailey but not a terrible read for a novella if you're looking for short and spicy. The MMC's pining was a little over-the-top at times. The storyline was unrealistic but captivating enough to read this in one sitting.

A short steamy fake marriage novella. I liked the MMC, but felt he was a little too good to be true at some parts. Overall I enjoyed it and finished it in one sitting.