Can a review just say “read this, it is phenomenal”? Because it’s incredibly hard to put into words how much I loved this book! Only Becka Mack can have me laughing out loud AND sobbing within the same chapter. Jaxon, Lennon and Mittens exceeded expectations!

Jaxon, an adorable King underneath that arrogant and blasé exterior. My heart truly hurt for him and what he had endured in his life. His feelings of self-doubt honestly just made me want to reach through the pages and give him a big hug. Lennon was everything he needed to see that he was worth sticking around for. He loved so quietly but so fiercely.
Lennon, an absolute QUEEN. I loved her SO much. She was sassy and sarcastic, knew what she wanted and deserved but also struggling in some aspects of her life. Jaxon treated her like the absolute queen she is, his acts of service were perfect room. I absolutely loved how both Jaxon and Lennon were struggling to find their place but ultimately found it with each other. The way the Coochie Gang and Britney’s Bitches cemented their place in their family was beautiful. In the words of Cara, “it’s everyone or nothing.” No one writes found family like Becka. The amount of highlights I have is absolutely criminal and there is so much more to say about this incredible story.

Special mention MUST go to the thoughtful and cute as shit things Jaxon does for Lennon. And of course Mittens. And the Coochie Gang. And Britney’s Bitches. And Ireland’s birthday party. And Jaxon singing karaoke. And learning TikTok dances for Carter.

I loved this story so much, and I cannot wait for everyone to fall in love with Jaxon and Lennon like I did!

“I’m looking at her… I’m looking at her like she’s the sunset, and I’m seeing it in colour for the very first time”

Jaxon Riley.. I have been waiting for your story and the emotional impact it had on me and wsso unexpected but so perfect!
I know underneath his tough exterior there would be reason for his ways, and those reasons had me in tears, this beautiful insecure man 🫶

“Fuck I’ve been so afraid. To let go, to let someone in, give them that kind of power over me. The kind of power where you walk knowingly to the edge of the cliff, stare down at all the possibilities waiting below you take a deep breath, let go & fall. But I don’t want to fall alone. I want her to fall with me”

Lennon is one of my favourite FMcs in the Becka Mack universe, the love for astrology, photography & herself was so refreshing and really cool.. honestly, she’s a whole vibe. Her patience, and self confidence was inspiring, I think she’ll leave a permanent mark on my own character.

“Kissing Lennon is like that first duo of coffee on a cold winter morning. She’s everything warm and rich, this cozy feeling that sinks into your bones, settles all your racing thoughts”

Following the Vancouver team throughout their journey has been incredible, I love when books continue to follow the main cheaters from previous stories and you really get to dive so deep into their world. Becka once again, has proved she is an incredible writer who can write pain so beautifully, I think I have cried in all 4 books now!?

I cannot wait for the next book, I just know that the storyline will have me in shambles once again - but Becka knows how to do it right, you don’t expect these hockey romances to have so much depth but I’m so glad they do 💗💗

“Thank you for falling with me. I don’t think I could’ve survived falling alone”

Thank you Becka and Simon & Schuster for this arc!!

Well I definitely need to go to therapy after this❤️‍🩹 This book is so painfully beautiful, raw, emotional, heart touching, & soul crushing yet absolutely hilarious. Becka somehow took my thoughts, feelings & anxieties & put them on paper, & the result absolutely annihilated me💔 I sobbed, laughed, & experienced a rollercoaster of emotions whilst reading this book, & that, coupled with the fact that it heavily resonated w/ me, made it my fave read of the year💜

Lennon is a total badass who knows how to dish it back! Her humbling Jaxon had me chuckling, & her patience with, & gentleness towards him had my heart bursting🥹 Watching her grow & find a place amongst this beautifully chaotic family was so heartwarming❤️‍🩹

Jaxon Riley… I don’t think I’ve EVER resonated this deeply with an mmc before. His internal dialogue hurt because it was relatable, so I sobbed relentlessly. He’s Carter 2.0 but less ostentatious so he immediately became my fave🫣he lowkey gives Schmidt from new girl vibes lol. He’s weird but also hot & endearing, chaotic, caring, selfless, empathic, loves quietly yet fiercely but doesn’t believe he could ever be loved the same way, is obsessed with his cat, flirty, cheeky, an f-boy, charming, emotional, wholesome & delusional (my type🤭🫦). I love him more than words can describe❤️‍🩹

The immediate fireworks between Jaxon & Lennon, their banter, chemistry, back & forth, & tension had me kicking my feet & feeling so giddy. Their gentle/quiet yet deep love, & their understanding of, and patience towards one another was so special. They were the missing piece in each others lives & their love felt like a warm hug🫂 I LOVED this book.

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞: room(h)ates to lovers, forced proximity, hockey player x team photographer, found family, ONS

Thank you to Simon & Schuster Australia for this arc💜

WOW! I’m speechless. This book was PERFECTION! Fall With Me is a beautifully written story about self-worth, courage, love and vulnerability. This book is spicy but also has an engaging plot with emotional depth and hilarious humour. Becca’s writing strikes this balance so well!
 
Jaxon and Lennon’s story was so heartwarming. It was also so much fun with all their witty and flirty banter! This book made me feel so many emotions. It had me laughing one minute and crying the next! The emotions in this book were so raw and real making it incredibly relatable! Fall With Me is the fourth book in Becca Mack’s Playing for Keeps series and is an absolute MUST READ!  
 
What to expect:
✨ hockey romance
✨ one-night stand
✨ frenemies to lovers
✨ room(h)ates with benefits
✨ runaway bride
✨ broody NHL defenseman
✨ team photographer
✨ reformed playboy
✨ cat daddy
✨ found family

This is delightful. Jaxon is a complete man toddler, he’s a hockey playing himbo - immature, needy, shallow as a puddle and a total golden retriever. I’m so impressed with the way that author Becka managed to make him relatable and sympathetic. Lennon is more appealing from the start, she’s smart and sassy, reeling from a pretty dramatic relationship breakdown. These two have a torrid weekend (on Lennon’s would-be honeymoon!) and then find themselves working and rooming together.

Jaxon's had the itinerant life of a professional hockey player. He’s loved around, been traded too often, fought too much and failed to settle in anywhere. Lennon is coming off that messy breakup and has moved to be the photographer for the Vancouver Vipers. There’s kindness between them and Jaxon especially pays attention. He's observant and once he’s in, he’s delicious with Lennon. There’s some familiar tropes, with workplace romance, forced proximity and banter for days. I’m not sure what they have in common other than physical compatibility - and there’s so much of that 🌶️🌶️. He’s a talker and a doer and they are both young, energetic and adventurous. The friendship group is lovely and all the cameos from the other players and partners in this series are so fun. Shoutout to Mittens - best fiction cat ever 🐱

It’s funny and tender and a light steamy read, and also really silly, but in a good way. There's momentum as they navigate work demands, health, their insecurities and backgrounds, etc etc. After reading a lot of angsty romances, this shaggy piece of fluff is a tonic!

Thank you NetGalley, Becka Mack and Simon & Schuster Australia for the ARC. Opinions are my own.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 stars
🌶️🌶️🌶️ spice

New favourite micro tropes: Cat dads & revenge sex (and I’m not even a cat person)

What to Expect:
Hockey romance
Reformed playboy
One night stand to friends to lovers
Forced proximity
Found family
Cinnamon roll MMC
Cat parents....no really

Fav Quotes:
"Listen, if Mitts is gonna be Mr.Worldwide, we’ll have to make sure the fame doesn’t go to his head. You know what can happen to a cat with unsupervised access to fame. I won’t let him be a statistic."

"I hate you, but I love your cock. Thanks for letting me ride it. Bye, Jason."

"Your mom told me to tell you she can’t make it to your place for breakfast tomorrow morning. She’s busy, and also, she’s my breakfast."

Another excellent installment in this series - words cannot express how good the banter is in these books. I can't get enough of how Becka Mack writes dialogue and the group chats. I just about pass away every time they come up, like let me go get my popcorn, ok?! Her humour is just my kind of silly.

Jaxon and Lennon's chemistry was just *chef's kiss*, sexual tension off the charts and every goddamn time he called her "honey" my legs just gave out from under me. Absolute melt.
I loved that he was a sort of secret cinnamon roll boi..pretending like he wasn't completely obsessed with her form the start, but doing all these tiny acts of service that showed how he really felt. eeeek (this is me smiling like a crazy person and swooning over him doing her hair).

Carter is still the MVP of this series and I will accept no arguments about it. Especially karaoke Carter...oh, and daddy t-shirt Carter. Just all of him. Gimme (*grabby hands*). Jaxon gave him and Garrett a run for their money, that's for sure..well played Miss Mack.

You'll grow to love absolutely every character in these books, I'm hoping we get a 2nd gen spin off for Connor, Lily & Ireland (pretty, pretty please!)

Fall With Me is book four in Becka Mack's Playing for Keeps series. Lennon Hayes was looking forward to her wedding until the bridegroom was caught sleeping with one of the wedding party members during the wedding rehearsal. After cancelling the wedding, Lennon decided still to go on her honeymoon and spend the time deciding what to do with her life. During her stay at the resort, she had a one-night stand with ice hockey player Jaxon Riley and did not expect to see him again. However, what happened when she moved to Canada and became Vancouver Vipers' new photographer, which was Jaxon Riley's team. The readers of Fall With Me will continue to follow Jaxon and Lennon to discover what happens.

Fall With Me is the first book I have read by Becka Mack, and I enjoyed it. I engaged with the book from the first page, which continued until the end. I love Becka Mack's portrayal of her characters and their interactions throughout this book. Fall With Me is well-written and researched. I like Becka Mack's description of the settings of Fall With Me, which allowed me to imagine being part of the book's plot. The readers of Fall With Me will learn about the role of a sports team photographer and being an ice hockey player. I recommend this book

I fall more in love with the Playing for Keeps series, Becka Mack’s writing and her beautiful characters, who feel so real to me now that it’s heartbreaking to finish each book. Fall with Me was everything I had wanted for Jaxon and everything that I didn’t even know I needed it to be. I was swooning, giggling, crying and cheering with each moment between Jaxon and Lennon and lapping up all of the amazing banter and group texts between their found family group. I loved everything about Fall with Me and it even managed to bump the beautiful Unravel Me from my favourite book spot of the series. The cover is just gorgeous and I cannot wait to have it proudly displayed on my bookshelf to appreciate every day. Thank you Becka for pouring so much love, humour, compassion, spice, friendship and humanity into the pages you touch; our lives through your books are all the richer for it.

I’m ashamed to admit this is my first Becka Mack book. Ashamed because this book was so awesome and I’m wondering how and why I haven’t discovered this author sooner. Like where have I been? I also don’t usually start a book midway through a series because I’ve been disappointed in the past just jumping into a whole universe without all the background, but the cover and blurb of Fall With Me (Playing For Keeps #4) drew me in. I’m a big, big fan of hockey romances, I’m thinking Sarina Bowen, Helena Hunting, Elle Kennedy, Sawyer Bennet… Big fan might be a slight under exaggeration, it’s more like obsessed, and this book is up there alongside my favourite hockey authors!

This book was fun, fun, fun. I absolutely loved Jaxon & Lennon’s story. I love a grumpy hottie, a bad boy who reforms himself when he meets the “one”, especially when he’s the absolute last person to realise she’s the “one” for him. I love that both of them weren’t looking for a relationship, but they end up falling for each other. I love that the book was about starting over, about having a found family. I loved the level of spice the book had and the fact their chemistry was smoking hot. The humour was perfect, and I loved how they ended up with a HEA that they didn’t see coming. My favourite part though was Jaxon’s role as cat daddy to Mittens! This cat was unique and the absolute best (like every single cat anyone has ever had)!

So, in summary first time reader now devoted Becka Mack fan!

I devoured this in 24 hours. It is certainly my favourite in this whole series.

Jaxon Riley, I love you. I’d so be a cat mommy for that man.

My heart hurt for him 🥺 All those insecurities and self doubt hidden under that playboy persona we saw throughout the other books. But his sweet ‘honey’ Lennon was exactly what he needed, so patient and loving on him 💛 Plus we love a queen who knows her worth.

This book had me laughing with snippets of the gang throughout, such a good ‘found family’ dynamic. I also love how unhinged Carter is.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC!

You simply cannot go wrong with a Becka Mack book. The spice, the banter, the humour- I was squealing and kicking my feet while reading.

Also, how stunning is that cover. A cosy read that makes you feel safe and I fell in love with every single character. The writing was just superb.

Yes!!!! Cat daddy!!
I loved this and will be purchasing the paper back. The cover is absolutely gorgeous
-forced proximity
- one night stand
- roommates with benefits!!!

I ate this up!

This book was everything! Becka Mack quickly became an instant read the minute I read book one in this series. The same spice and banter continued in fall with me, and it had me smiling, giggling, and falling further in love with every single character! Absolutely one of the best books I have read in 2024!

I knew I would love this read, Becka Mack writes some of my favourite romance books and each character and book makes you truly feel at HOME is the only way to describe it, the found family within these books is truly beautiful and heartwarming.

Jaxon is definitely now one of my new book boyfriends and a favourite MMC of mine 😍

If you haven’t read a Becka Mack book yet, run and add them to your TBR

I absolutely have adored the playing for keeps series so far so i was so excited to read the final instalment in this series. I have been so incredibly excited for Jason’s book and IT DELIVERED!! it was sooo good. This series and especially this book have such a huge found family trope which is one of my ALL TIME FAVOURITE tropes ever. The friend group is just everything to me i was smiling and giggling the whole book. I loved how much Lennon came out of her shell and how she found her own family with Jaxon and the rest of the friend group. I would 100% recommend this series if you love a good hockey romance series with an INCREDIBLE found family aspect. Thank you so much for the arc of this book!

All I needed to know about this book to read it was there was a bisexual and a cat. And I am NOT disappointed. BRB while I be a full time cat mom running my cats Insta because of this book.

So much banter in this book between all the characters, this book had me laughing and crying at different points.

With a point of views from Jaxon and Lennon, I am treated to an enemy- to-lover romance. I am not aware that this is part of a series and I still thoroughly enjoyed the story. If you are too, then be assured that Lennon and Jaxon's story is still easy to follow.

The title is quite apt, and you need to read the book to understand the beauty of the cover. Lennon is easy to love, while Jaxon is like a prickly cat who craves some connection yet wants to remain cool and aloof despite wanting closeness. Their dynamic draws you in as they work out the kinks...

and I totally... totally love the chapter titles.

Thank-you so much for the advanced copy of this book.
Playing for keeps is my all time favourite series ever. These books started my obsession for hockey romances.
I couldn’t wait to read Jaxon’s story, and when I got approved to read this arc I screamed !!
I LOVED THIS BOOK !! It was amazing.
It had me laughing and crying.
This series gives me a feeling of friendship, when reading these books it feels like I’m apart of the friendship group, like while you’re watching friends and you feel like you know them on a personal level. It makes you feel happy and warm inside.
I loved how Jaxon went from being grumpy to being a complete softy and becoming a part of the group, he found his chosen family.
I loved seeing Lennon come out of her shell and start living her life, she found love and happiness in Jaxon and the rest of the group.
I am constantly recommending this series to everyone I know. More people need to read these books, they’re just so amazing.
There’s not enough starts to rate this book and series. I can’t wait for everyone else to read this book.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5 stars ♾️

Oh my God! What an abolsolute roller-coaster of emotions did I endure while reading this masterpiece!

Both Lennon and Jaxon are lost souls that have no interest in relationships. They both land themselves in the middle of the greatest book friendship group / family to ever exist, who help them learn its ok to love yourselves and others.

The group of characters Becka has created are top tier amazing to read about.

This story really stands out for me as one I'll remember because it didn't follow the standard "flow" a lot of romance books take. I really felt like I got to watch (read) and experience a far more detailed and elaborate evolution of both characters, Lennon and Jackson, through their own self worth, their friendships and the relationship they build with each other.

There were so many laugh out loud moments and tears all mixed in. Absolute stunner of a read!

"For those who think they're better off alone, that they're not worthy of the love they crave, because they've dealt with the pain of people leaving".

The Playing for Keeps series has got to be my absolute favourite, because Becka Mack writes the best love stories and friendship groups! This has got to be my favourite of the series. The dynamic between Jax and Lenny is top notch, and the fact that they already hooked up on her honeymoon night (don't worry, it's not a spoiler!). I laughed, had a few tears and wished I had a few toys like Lenny!

Not only is this a story of roommates turned lovers, this story brings so much more depth with Jax's character and self-worth development and a friendship group we all want to be part of!