A fun romance read that had a few hiccups for me. This book has a lot of great elements - sports romance, enemies to lovers, also a bit of grumpy x sunshine and loads of tension. But the execution fell a bit flat for me in terms of building three-dimensional characters and adding depth to the relationship between the two main characters. The sex scene was also..ehem a bit awkward. Granted, I read a lot of indie MM romance so I might be biased but it just felt very much like the author wanted to write gay smut but..also felt uncomfortable doing it which definitely translated in the writing.
Overall though, this had some great moments and will appeal to lovers of this series!

A fun romance read! Had some slow points but ultimately picked up and was a pretty enjoyable read. Sports gays seriously are the best out there.

To say I've been bidding my time for this particular Bergman Brother to get his story is a bit of an understatement.
What I curiously did not do during that period was, surprisingly, wonder who would share the spotlight with Oliver. But I think that is a testament of my utter faith in Chloe Liese.

In March 2020 I requested an ARC for a book called "Only When It's Us" by an author I had never heard of before, and then proceeded to read it in one sitting the day before what turned out to be my first Pandemic Birthday. The week my, very long awaited, graduation from Law School was canceled. The week before the world changed. Willa and Ryder brought me laughs, tears, and so much humanity in what would turn out to be the scariest and most uncertain time in my (then) 27 years. And then they brought me here.

Over two years later and I have had the pleasure of reading ARCs for all of the Bergmans, always finding kinship and warmth in Liese's books and her charcters.

Oliver and Gavin were no different. It's the stories that I see myself in the most that I have the hardest time taking about, so I'll say that this was poetic. and intense. and I want to know who gave Chloe Liese the goddamn right 🥺🤏🏻

I absolutely adored this book! It's the 5th in the Bergman series and I think it's my fav along with Only When It's Us. Oliver has had my attention from the beginning of the series and I'm so glad he's got his own HEA. I loved the characters in this one especially Gavins poker playing OAPs. Chloe does a brilliant job at adding characters with disability/illness representation. This was a great addition to the series and I'm excited for the next one which I hope will be Viggo. If you haven't read the series I highly recommend that you so and start at the beginning. All books are stand alones but are best read in order imo.

t’s no secret how much I adore the Bergman Brothers series by Chloe Liese. It’s one of very few current series that I’m actively caught up with. Chloe’s writing and characters just speak to me. Her kindness with them, the inclusivity, the real life moments…it all just comes together. Oliver and Gavin were quite simply, perfection. Everything I was hoping for and more. The banter…THE BANTER. Gah!! There are a lot of tropes packed into this book and I loved every minute. If you loved Ted Lasso and want a book where pro soccer teammates hook up and one is the grumpy, growly one who dresses in monochrome black and is facing retirement and the other is a younger, talented, literal ray of sunshine…grab this book immediately.

Here’s what you can expect:
-cis gay man + cis bisexual man, both white
-enemies to lovers AND Grumpy/Sunshine
-disability rep (anxiety disorder & chronic pain)
-only one bed
-age gap
-BIG Ted Lasso vibes/sports romance
-forced proximity in all the ways
-delicious slow burn
-“let’s just get it out of our systems”
-knowing their coffee order as foreplay
-nursing an injury, wanting to bone & making it work (which Chloe does exceptionally well)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Heat level: 🔥🔥🔥
Swoon factor: 💖💖💖💖💖

*Thank you to Netgalley and the author for the #gifted e-arc!

CW: childhood trauma/baggage, on page explicit sex, on page alcohol consumption, on page panic attacks, on page sports injury, queerphobic slur (not named, but challenged)

Thank you, NetGalley and the author for the chance to read this book!

Rating: 5 stars

Wow, I absolutely loved this book! I adore Chloe Liese so when I saw this one on NG I instantly hit request. I started it late at night, intending to read a chapter or two, but this story grabbed me and didn't let go until the end. Oliver and Gavin had perfect chemistry, the enemies to lovers tension was so good and all the tropes! The tropes here were my catnip. Grumpy vs sunshine, only one bed, big softy and so many more!

All I can say is I'm so excited for the next book!

Chloe Liese does it again with this fifth book from the Bergman Brother series. Everything for You gave me all the feels between Oliver and Gavin! I never want these books to end. I listened to the audiobook in one day, and the narration gave these characters the voices they deserve. I highly recommend reading the other books in this series to appreciate all the characters from this Bergman family.

I requested this without realising it’s part of a series of (so far) only m/f couples! I immediately listened to the first audio…that I ended up hating.
Determined to not listen to another dozen books I just went straight into this one.
In my opinion it works just fine on its own without having to know about all the other siblings. If you want to read the other books though, it might get a little spoilery if you don’t read them in the right order. I think it’s nice to get a couple of cameos and meet characters again that you loved in previous book though.

This one started out amazing!
They hated each other, there was bickering, there was tension! Lots of tension!
It’s a sports romance and by now I might say I’m an expert in this field.
It’s also a grumpy x sunshine romance and I am very soft for that.
There was only one bed!!! I repeat: LOTS of tension!
I flew through this and I just wanted them to finally kiss in hateful passion.

Until then it completely worked for me and I loved it.
But until the end of this book there wasn’t a single meaningful conversation between these two.
It’s like they just decided to love each other from one moment to the other and that was it.
Gavin didn’t even know how many siblings Olli got!
Until the end Gavins only character trait was him being grumpy and in pain from his injuries. I couldn’t tell you more about him if I wanted to. Only in the last chapter we get the slightest glimpse of his background story.

The to and fro between these two was completely random, I still don’t get why they couldn’t just be together sooner, after Gavins most serious injury. I finished the book and I still don’t get it.
Maybe they should have talked? Who knows.

The sex scenes. They were kinda cringey. If you write gay sex scenes you can use the word hole. It’s not “there”, and also not “the tight place”. It’s his butthole, just say it. It’s just another normal part of the body.
I also don’t think gay adult men say “you want me to touch you THERE?!” like it’s a surprise or like it’s a special hidden place only members of the secret club know about.

The ending got very, very, very corny. It was totally over the top for me, but if you’re into that this might be a winner for you.

All in all this started out so good and then went completely downhill for me.
I think this series just might not be for me.

The grumpy sunshine romance that we have all been waiting for!! This was an absolute dream of a book and I could not put it down I love these siblings so much it truly feels like coming home picking these books but. But I must say Oliver and Gavin have my heart and this is my favourite.

This gave me Ted Lasso vibes in the best way. I had requested this on netgalley without knowing it was part of a series so now I have to go read the rest of these! I love a good grumpy/sunshine dynamic and Oliver and Gavin were perfect together. This book also had a great discussion about being ready to be in a relationship and giving people grace and accepting their flaws. Overall a fast and fun read.

I always get excited when I see Chloe Liese has a new book out. I was so excited for the fifth book in the Bergman Brothers series. These can all be read as stand-alone, but would be better enjoyed as part of the series. This wasn’t my favorite in the series, but I did enjoy it!

This book was a m/m sports romance. This book is a little slow, but I did love the characters in this book. It was a nice change to read a m/m romance book! If you’re a fan of enemies to lovers, sports romance, and slow burn, you will love this book. This romance has a little bit of it all. If you haven’t checked out the rest of the series yet, I highly recommend it!

Thank you Netgalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this book! This is for fans of Ted Lasso, and who would love to see Ted and Roy get together! The grumpy and sunshine trope is a favorite of mine so I can't recommend this book enough. This has Chloe's amazing banter, great plot and warm family moments entwined throughout.

Love Chloe Liese and will read/buy anything she writes! Every character and story is so unique but relatable, and always great steamy romance!

Grumpy and sunshine, enemies to lovers, only one bed, it's all my favourite tropes but it just didn't work for this book. Also a 4 year time skip, where we don't see how Gavin and Oliver met, which NO. Where is the progression, it felt like insta love to me lol

I have never read the previous books in the series and while I don't think it's necessary to read those, they do make a lot of appearances in this book. Yes, the siblings are close but did we really need all those moments of vow renewal, beach wedding, another baby, another wedding etc?

Also I was excited that this was a sports romance, especially soccer is sort of rare in books I've read but unfortunately it's not very prominent.

Lactose intolerance. Oliver had already taken a lactase enzyme pill and he ate only cheese, a whole lot of it but it's not like gallons of milk. It was basically just a plot device for the other MC take care of his niece.

The sex scene. You can still do a fade to black even if it's not YA or just don't write anal, as not everyone does it. Instead of "He touched me there". Please
But it also had a cock ring lmao

I also cannot understand how when Oliver has anxiety and panic attacks, he gets better when someone holds his hand or crowds him on the field. Personally I hate crowds, I hate people in my personal space let alone touching me, so I think it would be worse for someone who has anxiety but maybe I'm wrong.

Overall cannot reccomend it but I still finished the book, so yay!

*ARC provided by the publisher via netgalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review

3.5 rounded up to 4 for GR and NetGalley

Usually grumpy-sunshine is one of my favorite tropes! But for some reason I just didn't love Gavin in this one. I ADORED the Bergman family scenes and I hope we get a book #6!! There is a scene with Gavin and a one of Oliver's nieces that is ADORABLE! But otherwise ... I don't know about Gavin. :(

The writing is still absolutely lovely - I'm a big fan of Chloe Liese's writing style!
I loved how she brought in the rest of the Bergman clan and we get to see how their lives are doing!!
I would recommend this one if you're already a fan of the Bergmans, or if you're looking for a m2m romance (CL knows how to write spicy romance!), but otherwise it gets a "meh" and a pass from me.

Chloe Liese never disappoints. Her Bergman Brothers series is brilliant - filled with emotion, romance and laughter - and book #5 is no exception.
This is Oliver Bergman's story. If you're offended by gay relationships, this book is not for you. but I absolutely loved it. It's a classic enemies to friends to lovers story and also represents chronic pain and anxiety disorder. I can't wait for the next novel in the Bergman saga.
Thank you to Net Galley and Chloe Liese for providing me with this ARC for my honest review.

4.5 stars!!

everything for you is a ted lasso inspired romance, which is one of my all-time favorite shows, so i was really excited that such an auto-buy author was giving us her own version of roy kent. while this isn't my favorite of the bergman books (nothing will ever dethrone ren/frankie unless my manifesting works and ziggy's book is f/f) i think that chloe liese just has such a way with her characters working through their emotions that every book from her feels like a treat because of it.

Everything for You was a sweet and quick sports romance read that delivered on the wonderful queer rep, disability rep (one of the MCs deals with severe chronic pain) and neurodivergent rep (the other MC has an anxiety order and panic attacks). I absolutely loved how the story progressed and how Gavin and Oliver slowly started admitting feelings for each other (it only took them about, oh, two years), going from reluctant co-captains to confidants, lovers, and, in the end, romantic partners.
This was my first Chloe Liese book but I am excited to read more now, especially if the others deliver on such wonderful queer rep as well! I also appreciated how the book dealt with Gavin’s impending end of career – you could basically taste the fear and reluctance in his PoV chapters, and I appreciated the shift in mentality that occurred by the end of the book, noting how ending one chapter doesn’t mean the rest of the book will be dull, but how it just signals the start of another chapter, possibly even brighter and more beautiful than the last one.
If you are looking for a sweet – and steamy – MLM sports romance with an age gap (done tastefully and without imbalances of power), this book is JUST for you!

A beautiful, heartwarming novel that I’ve come to expect from Chloe Liese! Recommended for people that enjoy contemporary romance, sports romance, LGBT representation, and Ted Lasso!

Thank you to @chloe_liese and @netgalley for this ARC that I read late, but loved al the same, because it did several things all at once. One, in a series about many siblings in a big family, one is queer! Two, more Bergman sibs stories! Three, more carefully done depictions of anxiety disorders and chronic pain! And four, a lovely what if for me — Roy Kent and Ted Lasso, if he was in Jamie Tartt’s body, as a couple? Didn’t know I’d want that but I did! I’m not super into mm romance bc I like my books to feature ladies, but this was quite fun and lovely.

With that said, yes, Gavin Hayes is a queer older soccer player at the end of his career with a battered and beaten and broken body. He’s got an English accent and swears too much, he’s a secret softie, and he’s determined to be enemies with Oliver Bergman, our bisexual youngest Bergman brother. Where Gavin is emotionally stunted and a bit of a curmudgeon who’s dead set on being rude instead of kind in the face of feelings (Helloooo Mr Darcy?), Ollie is a bright color wearing people pleasing tornado with an anxiety-panic disorder in the beginning of his professional soccer career. Kind, emotionally mature, wiser than his years, and an eternal optimist — totally an opposites attract situation. And soccer!

There’s a time jump that ties up some other Bergman business loose ends that truly made me so happy (please remember that Willa and Ryder OWN MY SOUL, Rooney has my guts, and Aiden is my cosmic twin, so you can guess what loose ends might have been tied up 😍😍!)

I can’t lie, the sex was 🔥, good and dirty, intimate and deep. If that’s the selling point for you, go get it. If it’s ⚽️, go get it. If it’s Bergmans, go get it!

As usual, when I was feeling a little bit sore and bruised and lost in real life, there was a new Bergman sibs book for me to read and feel good about books again. Thanks @chloe_liese — you’re so clutch like that for me.