So glad Eriksson got a book! He's been a favorite for a while now and I was hoping he'd get a book! It's always great to be in this universe and fun to spend time with the WAGS.

I really enjoyed this. I thought the characters were well developed. I love the Fetch business concept and how it leads to them meeting. I’m not a big hockey fan, but I loved that Hailey was.

I hope there’s more to come in this series!

Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy writing together is magic! Stay is the second book of the WAG’s series. I loved the first one and this one is just as good. I absolutely adored Hailey and Matt. Can’t get enough of these hockey romances!

Thank you NetGalley and Bloom Books for the arc of this book.

Stay by Elle Kennedy & Sarina Bowen is such a lovely romcom. I love sports romance and these authors made the characters so much fun and likeable. I love that the WAGS are not catty but supportive. It was interesting to read the dynamics of the two different divorces but I like how everyone found healing in the end. Such a sweet read. Thank you, Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Bloom Books for giving me the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I've always enjoyed Elle Kennedy and Sarina Bowen's hockey romances (The Deal and Rookie Move are escape reads for me), so I was excited to have the opportunity to read this one! It was a great escape read, moved at a good pace and I appreciated the characters dealing with real issues. Recommend if you love their other books!

4.25⭐️ Two Words: Matthew Eriksson

But on a serious note, this was such a refreshing read! I have been a big fan of Elle Kennedy for a long time and this was my second book by Sarina Bowen. The writing style between the two of them is seamless and the character development in this book is so well done!

Matt and Hailey are both divorcees who are navigating this new ‘single’ world with quite a lot of baggage. But they balance each other out and are perfect for each other.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of a hockey romance. While there is another book prior to this (Good Boy), I don’t think you need to read it to enjoy this one.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bloom Books for the opportunity to read this eARC for an honest review. Opinions expressed in this review are solely my own.

Ps. I hope to have a friend like Katie Hewitt one day!

Usually when you read stories about WAGs (Wives and Girlfriends) the women characters are catty stereotypical. Not with Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy. This is a story about a golden retriever man who is a great dad, and a smart, savvy business woman who is supported by the women in his teammates lives. I love everything Sarina Bowen writes, and highly recommend.

📖 Book Review 📖 Elle Kennedy and Sarina Bowen write an absolutely beautiful, heartfelt, unputdownable novel. Like most Canadiens, Hailey breathes hockey and in her post-divorce quiet life might have a little crush on star player Matt Eriksson. It’s always fun to daydream and of course she hopes that the client she texts for her virtual assistant business turns out to be him. When she offers to bend the rules just a bit to walk this faceless client’s dog and receives amazing hockey tickets, that pipe dream comes closer to being an actual reality…Stay is just about the coziest read that I have picked up in awhile and I absolutely adored every minute of chemistry shared between Hailey and Matt. The wild card in this book was definitely the WAGs; their sisterhood bond was wonderful!

I would highly recommend Stay by Bowen and Kennedy to adult romance readers. It is book two in the WAGs series but you do not have to have read book one Good Boy to understand and enjoy this book. Fans of Good Boy will not be disappointed as there are guest appearances by Jess, Blake, Wesmie, and even mother Riley in Stay. Stay is my favorite book in this WAGs series and reminds me of Bowen’s Brooklyn Bruisers series which I also loved. Hailey and Matt’s story is so cute; I didn’t want to put the book down. It was well written with great pacing. I hope there are more books in the WAGs series or other collaborations by Bowen and Kennedy. Their writing styles worked so well together.

The story of Matt and Hailey had me laughing throughout. Their journey was fun but showed their insecurities too. This is the 2nd in a series. I'm hoping there'll be another one in this series. Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy. #Stay #NetGalley

Hailey owns and operates a virtual assistant business in Toronto named Fetch and she may be crushing on a client. She figured out that her anonymous client is none other than Matt Eriksson, a professional hockey player, and Hailey, who is the biggest fan around. The two begin to flirt a bit online and this turns into a little more than a virtual relationship, even though they’re both divorced and unsure how to move forward.

I liked this book and I’m still stoked this series has so many future books possible with more teammates. Before, we saw professional hockey player Blake find love but now we’ve moved on to his friend Matt, and there are so many more to choose from. I like that they deal with the very real aftermath of divorce and navigating not only those feelings but the familial dynamics that it leaves behind. These two write funny banter and I think this book flowed better than the first of the WAGS series. This book is a quick read with lots of hockey-related content; I still think Elle Kennedy writes the best hockey romances around.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC.

Stay was fine for me. It didn’t knock my socks off, but it’s a pretty solid hockey romance. The nicknames for one another were a little cheesy for me. In the previous book, the nicknames worked because that was part of the love interest’s personality, but in Stay they just felt forced. The MC and the love interest were more “serious” characters, so the nicknames didn’t feel genuine coming from them.

There was also a bit at the very end where the MC is described as wearing a pantsuit, then in the next paragraph, she’s wearing a tight skirt.

The relationship between the MC and the love interest didn’t develop organically for me and the timeline felt off in some way. I can’t pinpoint it, but something just wasn’t working for me with these two things.

Overall, this is a straightforward hockey romance. I give it a 3/5. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review Stay. All thoughts and opinions are my own.