This cute romcom was a nice friends turned lover romance. Although I did find it a little long to get there I did enjoy the relationship between the main characters.

This was so stinking cute! So if you know my reading taste as of lately, i’m a huge fan of romance and usually in it for the smut but this book has ZERO smut or anything spicy and here i am giggling, smiling, and laughing OUT LOUD while listening to this book because it’s seriously that cute! This was a cozy feel good read and i flew through it!

It’s a friends to lovers, yes the one where they’ve been pining over each other for YEARS and coincidentally are both single at the same time and oooh FAKE DATING too! I’m not a big friends to lovers fan but this one was so so good! Like how can they not know they’ve been IN LOVE for 6 years?? This is also perfect for those fans of romance who don’t like the smut or sexual descriptions but is full of fluff!

The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams🎧⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A classic friends to lovers trope plus fake dating. Silly characters with a silly plot. Completely light hearted, fluff read or listen. It was fun to listen to while getting chores done around the house. I also appreciated that it was pretty clean. Not a ton of bad language, and the romance scenes were PG.

Bree and Nathan have been best friends since high school. They have also loved each other since high school, but fear that telling the other person of their love will ruin the friendship if the feelings are mutual. So for 6 years they dance around their emotions until they are forced to fake date.

What really held me back from loving this book (especially after reading Seven Days in June) were the characters! Bree is this bubble of sunshine, perfectly perfect, it was kind of annoying sometimes. Nathan, this tough pro quarter back, who is absolutely smitten, saying everything she does is "adorable" and "cute". Also, I think the ending was a little too long. I wish it ended 3 chapters sooner and just gave us a 3-4 page epilogue a few years later.

Thanks to @netgalley and Sarah Adams for this free audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

I received an audio ARC from NetGalley and Dreamscape Media in exchange for an honest review. Bree Camdon and Nathan Donelson have been best friends for years. Neither of them want to lose what they have, but they both want more. Nathan is the quarterback for an NFL team and a man who never has a shortage of women wanting to date him. Bree runs her own dance studio for low income dancers to give them opportunities they may not otherwise have. Bree knows the kiss of death for any of Nathan's relationships is to make him choose between his girlfriend and his friendship, he will always choose Bree. Now, they are both single. One night out with his teammates, and Bree is drunkenly spilling her secrets to a reporter in the bathroom. The cat is out of the bag, or is it? Nathan and his teammates come up with a list of steps to take to give Bree the opportunity to fall in love, a cheat sheet. If they don't work, he's ready to box his feelings up and be her best friend for life. A PR stunt to capitalize on the attention leads to more time together in a more romantic way. Will they cross the divide from friendship to more?

This book sucked me in. I loved both of the characters, and especially loved Nathan's friends and their antics to help him out. The Cheat Sheet is light hearted and fun to read. A great friends to lovers story with loads of pining on both sides. I got the audio arc. It is dual narrators (yay!) and I loved the female narrator, but unfortunately the male narrator is one I haven't been a fan of at any point. He's just not my cup of tea. But the majority of the book is from Bree's perspective, which helped. I would recommend this closed door romance to fans of friends to lovers, sports romance, limited conflict. It was a happy read that I really enjoyed!

This was definitely cute.

I am new to this author and wasn't aware this was super closed door romance, but I still enjoyed it.

Literally zero boring parts in this. It flowed well and I was invested the entire time. I liked her writing and the way she made the friends to lovers (one of my least favorite tropes) was somewhat believable.

The ending was a bit abrupt but it was still super cute and I will be looking into this author's other books. I recommend to any readers that love romance without any smut.

Some of my favorite movies are romantic comedies like Pretty Woman and
The Wedding Singer. I enjoy them because I can laugh and also have those heartfelt romantic moments that just make me sigh and give me hope for true romance.

Listening to the audiobook for The Cheat Sheet by romantic comedy author Sarah Adams brought me back to that feel good feeling of those favorite movies. I laughed out loud from Bree's self depreciating rants (I have felt the same at times) and needed to fan myself after some of Nathan's honest revelations about his feelings for Bree.

Bree and Nathan are best friends since high school. Neither has been single at the same time...til now. Of course neither wants to admit their romantic feelings in fear they will lose their very much co dependent friendship. Then Bree drunkenly (and hilariously) reveals to a reporter her love for star quarterback Nathan. She swears it was just the booze talking but fans want them together since Nathan has an unearned playboy reputation.

We now go from the best friend love trope to my favorite, the fake dating trope. Nathan's agents want them "dating" until the super bowl because they are getting a lot of money to do a commercial together.

Nathan has just a couple a week's to get Bree to admit her feelings and with the help of his teammates they devise a cheat sheet (like they use for plays during games) of romantic gestures to win over Bree.

As Bree, narrator Renee Dorian has impeccable comedic timing that had me laughing with tears in my eyes and Teddy Hamilton as Nathan was, well, just dreamy. He was flirty, tender and I felt his swoon worthy charm through the phone.

I loved listening to this rom com and if you still believe romance can be fun and sexy it is a MUST read/listen for you too.

I received a free copy of this audiobook from the publishers via #netgalley for a fair and honest review. All opinions are my own.

A sweet romance! I really enjoyed listening to this audio book!

I did feel like it was a little childish at times but still a sweet romance.

Thank you Sarah Adams, Dreamscape Media and NetGalley for the advanced listener’s copy of this audiobook in exchange for my honest opinion.

It’s no secret I love friends-to-lovers. But I’m also weak for a hero who’s crazy in love with the heroine—so much, so she’s the focal point of his life. That’s totally Nathan, the hero in Cheat Sheet, written by Sarah Adams and wonderfully narrated by Renee Dorian and Teddy Hamilton. Adams’ cast of entertaining, complex, and memorable characters help each other to grow for the better. I couldn’t help but empathize with them and root for their HEA. Her descriptions are vivid, and combined with her characters, drew me in right away. My favorite things about the novel—besides Nathan, of course—are Nathan’s teammates, their interactions with each other, their relationships with Nathan and Bree, and how they plan and help Nathan figure out how to get Bree to see him as more than a friend and fall for him. It’s so awesome! Nathan’s teammates are something else. Hamilton’s and Renee’s narration for these scenes is hilarious and priceless.

Bree Camden is hopelessly in love with her best friend Nathan Donelson, a star NFL quarterback. She’s committed to keeping her feelings secret to keep the status quo because she believes he’s not interested in her as anything more than a friend. Unfortunately, while out with Nathan and his teammates one night, she drunkenly reveals her feelings for him to a tabloid reporter, and the video goes viral. Bree and Nathan agree to publicly fake a romantic relationship until after the Super Bowl to preserve Nathan’s image. Nathan’s generous, supportive, caring, genuine, and All about Bree. Unfortunately, Bree couldn’t be any more clueless, oblivious, and immature about the possibility Nathan has feelings for her. Nonetheless, Nathan’s committed to keeping Bree in his life forever, even if it’s only as just his best friend.

These two are so ridiculously silly—really, it’s mostly just Bree—but believable as best friends from high school. While there’s so much the two of them haven’t shared/discussed but need to, the connection between them was immediate, profound, and continues to grow stronger. Similarly, there’s also a strong physical attraction both ignore and repress. I love their relationship because of how Nathan and Bree became friends, the connection/bond they share, how close they are, and how strong their friendship is despite all they’ve experienced. Their interactions with each other show the depth of their bond, their care, respect, and love.

For the most part, the novel is hilarious and cute. But Bree is so incredibly exasperating with her relentless stubbornness, obliviousness, and doomsaying because she goes so far sometimes that she doesn’t think about how she might be hurting Nathan’s feelings and her own cause. Bree, I think, is just too all up in her head. Eventually, Adams reveals a legitimate reason for Bree’s immature and stunted behavior. Cheat Sheet is not all silliness, LOLs, pining, and repressed desires and dreams though, Nathan and Bree also tackle depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and stress.

Dorian and Hamilton are perfect narrators for this novel and Bree and Nathan. Hamilton and Dorian bring each of the novel’s different characters to life using pitch, dialect, emphasis, personality quirks, giving them distinctive voices. Hamilton’s narration for Nathan is easy-going, low-key, indulgent, confident, and sexy, while Dorian’s narration for Bree is goofy, bubbly, insecure, and hesitant. Best of all, they each excellently narrate both hero’s/heroine’s viewpoints. Dorian and Hamilton transition from humor to drama without losing a beat, effortlessly and seamlessly. Hamilton and Dorian delightfully capture the hilarious and outrageous shenanigans of Nathan and Bree struggling to keep their romantic feelings under wraps and Nathan’s teammates helping Nathan to seduce Bree into seeing him as a valid romantic option. In particular, the narration of Bree’s and Nathan’s intense emotional scenes is poignant, powerful, and beautiful.

The Cheat Sheet is a hilarious, sweet, silly, and thoroughly entertaining friends-to-lovers, fake-dating rom-com about friendship, first love, self-esteem, refusing to give up on your dreams, and learning to hope again and take risks. I recommend the audiobook for fans of fake dating and friends-to-lovers tropes and are in the mood for a fun, silly, wacky rom-com listen but don’t mind over the top ridiculousness and fade to black love scenes.

I had the pleasure of listening to the audible version of this book. Narrated by Renee Dorian and Teddy Hamilton.
This is a sweet, clean romance. Friends who both have feelings for each other but never want to admit it so it doesn't ruin their friendship. Circumstances make it that these two need to pretend to date and we always know how that ends, right?
Definitely, a slow burn, misunderstandings kind of book but I love that!
I enjoyed this sweet, well narrated, often laugh-out-loud, dual POV audible.

I finished this in one day, it was so good! It’s so cute and I loved almost everything about it. Expect for the miscommunication, it was kinda frustrating but otherwise it was a really cute romance and I really liked it.

There was a lot I wanted to like in this book but there were so many cringe moments that I found myself wanting to stop listening to the audiobook. However, I finished the book and found it to be ok. My biggest problem was the repetitive "we are just friends." This was said so much that I couldn't believe that I was reading about adults, they acted more like teens.

Loved The Cheat Sheet !

The audiobook was amazing especially the voice actors. They totally brought the characters to life. The story was so cute and made me laugh out loud a couple of times. Highly recommend.

The Cheat Sheet follows best friends since high school Bree and Nathan who are hopelessly in love with each other. The only problem? Neither of them will admit to it. Scrappy ballet teacher Bree is constantly saying that Nathan is just like a brother to her, and dating him would practically be incest, but she doesn’t actually believe that. All she wants to do is maintain her relationship with her best friend. Dating could jeopardize their perfect BFFness. All that star NFL player Nathan thinks about is being more than Bree’s friend.

When a drunken confession that Bree is in love with Nathan is published by TMZ, Nathan’s publicist suggests they fake date. This is great for publicity, and Bree could make some serious money from a brand deal.

Will they admit their feelings are for real? Would a real relationship jeopardize their friendship?

This audiobook was fun. I pretty much knew where the story was going at all times, but I still enjoyed the ride. I was so swept up in what would happen with their fake relationship and if and how they would end up having their happily ever after. I did find that the book was entirely too long. It definitely could have not had the last 30 or so minutes and would’ve been better imo. I also hated how whiney Nathan was about being rich and how stupid Bree was about not letting Nathan ever pay for anything for her when she’s broke and he’s literally a millionaire. Couldn’t be me.

The narrators, while probably accurate to what the characters would sound like in real life, had such annoying voices. Whenever I would put this book on it would take me a moment to adjust to how annoying I found their voices to be. (If you are the voice actors I am so sorry. I am sure you are great people and you voiced these characters perfectly. I am just a dick.)

Thank you so much to Dreamscape Media, Sarah Adams, and Netgalley for the advanced listener’s copy of this audiobook in exchange for an unbiased review.

This was such a cute read! I really enjoyed the style of writing. The friends to lovers journey. The both of us secretly love each other but don’t believe the other could ever so they don’t talk about it tale. The banter and dialogue were spot on. It kept me interested and listening closely. Also I should mention it was a closed door romance but it worked really well. There most definitely was cheese too but it seemed appropriate.

This was my first Sarah Adams book that I’ve finally read and I am so happy I did. I have a few of hers in my tbr pile and I am so excited to read them! Sometimes after reading heavier books I need a light read and I know I can easily find that from this author.

This book was super cute - and sweet. It has a LOT of seriously LOL funny moments. Nathan is a star NFL quarterback. He works HARD and failure isn't a word in his vocabulary. He's also been in love with his best friend Bree since they were teenagers. He and Bree have never, in all that time, however, been more than friends. Neither has been willing to take a chance on losing their friendship to take a chance on more. When circumstances line up that cause Bree and Nathan to fake a dating relationship - all bets are off.

Bree is definitely an America's Sweetheart kind of girl. Kind, loving, generous - she's a seriously lovely person. She cares for the people she loves with her whole heart. I loved everything about her - except for her self-delusional internal commentary about her relationship with Nathan. It got to a point where both she and Nathan just made me want to SCREAM. And when Nathan and Bree finally to get together towards the end it was with a great FINALLY sigh from me. This is definitely a book where I really wanted the characters to quit acting cute and really talk to each other. But the scene where they do finally talk to each other - is so emotional and well written that I did forgive Sarah Adams for everything she put us through up to that point.

Side note - There is no on-page sex in this book - and about halfway through I realized that Nathan was kind of a Ken doll for me. Even in moments where he and Bree get very close physically - there is no physical evidence of Nathan's strong reaction mentioned. I guess I'm so conditioned to hear about erections in romance - that this stood out for me. Just a point of interest - not really a criticism...

Overall - this is super cute and the audiobook was great. It definitely had a Bromance Bookclub vibe to it - and not just because Teddy Hamilton was narrating it! Definitely recommend for a lighthearted read!

I received this as an ARC-Audiobook from NetGalley, but these opinions are all my own.

*gag* Too. Much. Sweet. Aghh it was sickening. Sorry folks but it's way too mushy for me. I did enjoy the narrators but I got very aggravated with the MCs pretty early on and then by the end they were nauseating and there was a lot of 🙄🙄 on my part. It was cringey. No smut/spice, just a lot of longing and pining and just wait till you see what I'm going to do to you...that we don't see. It's pretty PG-13. If you love Hallmark movies, you'll love this book. You'll eat this book up, you'll give it 5 stars. Go you! Not for me. I did enjoy the narrators!

Cute romcom! I listened to the ARC on audio courtesy of Net Galley. It was cheesy and cute- but that is the point of books like this one! A fun book to get lost in.

Bree has been in love with her best friend since high school. For self preservation, she avoids physical contact and constantly reminds him that he is like a brother to her. And then, they need to publicly (fake) date to promote a commercial they filmed. Some of her rules have to be broken. She may not survive.

Overall, a fluffy, quick, entertaining read. When I find a flaw in a book (or what I perceive as a flaw), I tend to get fixated on it. In this case, some things with their friendship just didn't make sense. They are best friends and have been since high school, yet there are a lot of things they don't know about each other.

I listened to the audio version and it was okay.... I found Bree to come off as very shrill. I don't believe that I've ever listened to a book narrated by Renee Dorian before, so I am not sure if that was a character trait for Bree or her normal narration. Teddy Hamilton did great, as always.

It was cute, but I'd probably recommend sticking to the print version.

I received and audio copy in exchange for an honest review.

Bree Camden might be in love with her best friend and star quarterback, Nathan Donelson. But even though Nathan has always put her before any of his actual girlfriends (much to their despise), Nathan and Bree have always been platonic. Sure, Nathan might be secretly taking care of Bree behind the scenes, but they're definitely nothing more than friends. Until Bree imbibes a little too much and tells a reporter how she really feels about Nathan. With this new knowledge, Nathan is ready to take his and Bree's friendship to the next level, but just like in football, Nathan is going to need a little help from his cheat sheet.

I thought The Cheat Sheet was a cute, closed door rom-com. I thought, based on the cover, that there would be more actual sports involved in the storyline, but it was surprisingly easy to understand any sports references Adams did use, and there was very little actual game time in the plot. Bree was a relatable main character - even though I have no background in dance - and I found her to be quite likeable. Even though I don't personally know any professional football players, Nathan seemed like a realistic star athlete; he was always looking out for his teammates, making sure they were getting in plenty of practice and rest. Classified as a closed door/clean romance, Bree and Nathan's relationship was cute more than spicy and I enjoyed listening to them take the steps from friends to more. I don't usually go for the tame rom-coms, but The Cheat Sheet was cute and I would definitely recommend this one for anyone looking for a friends-to-lovers romance that keeps in clean but still provides the laughs.

While I did listen to the audiobook of The Cheat Sheet, I can't help but wonder if I would have loved the story more had I read it instead of listened to it. I absolutely did not hate the narration, but I didn't love it, either. I didn't really find anything memorable about the audiobook narration. I probably would've been better off reading a physical copy of the book rather than listening to it. My personal tastes weren't immediately lulled by Dorian's cadence or tones, but I don't know if that is due to the narrator, this particular book, or a combination of the two.

Overall, I found the story to be cute but had no real feelings either way regarding the narration.

Thank you to Dreamscape Media for providing an ALC of The Cheat Sheet via Netgalley.

super cheesy. like, literal-block-of-cheese cheesy. fake dating, friends-to-lovers … great tropes too!

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