I love the marriage of convenience trope. It’s the fake dating trope but on steroids. I mean, who doesn’t love a “my wife” moment??? Anyways, I don’t have a lot to say about this book. I only wished it was a full on novel and not a novella. There was potential here, and not only because of the plot (since the plot is almost redundant at this point), but because with Britta and Sumner’s characters and their relationship and chemistry. I wished we were shown those moments, especially when they were doing their “assignments” of getting to know each other for the immigration office for Sumner’s green card. Like that would’ve given us so much lovely scenes. I enjoyed reading it nonetheless, that’s why I wished this was a novel and not a novella.

Thank you NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review

Same Time Next Year is my favorite Tessa Bailey book to date! There is so much to love about this short fake marriage, friends to lovers romance. Did I mention that it is a hockey romance? For all romance lovers and Tessa Bailey fans you must pick up this book!

Both Sumner and Britta are such lovable characters, that you just want to root for the entire time. Sumner is a big burly love muffin that has some A+ dirty talk! Tessa Bailey completely blew me away with this one, because she fit so much plot, pining, sexy and emotional depth into such a short novel.

The only reasons that you wouldn't want to read this is if you don't like sports romance or spice. I honestly think that anyone that likes the genre or enjoys great writing will enjoy this though. I do not have a single negative thing to say about this book.

This is a read in one sitting type of book. It is so captivating, fun and just amazing writing and plot building! I am always on the lookout for the newest Tessa Bailey book, but this blew me away even more than her others and that is truly saying something! I can't wait to see what else she does with this series!

A really cute and fun story in addition to STEAMY! These hockey stories get me every time. Many thanks to the publisher and netgalley for this copy for read and review

I normally like Tessa Bailey, but this wasn’t great. I don’t think holiday romance novellas are for me because they’re usually so rushed and mostly corny. I couldn’t completely hate a book that had the line, “She shakes like a washing machine on the spin cycle.” Like??? I’m so glad that got past the editor for my personal enjoyment.

Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey is an Amazon Originals novella and the story of Britta and Sumner.
 
Britta is a bartender with the goal of becoming an owner and Sumner is a hockey player on the verge of entering the professional league. However, he is Canadian, and his visa is about to expire and therefore he is looking for ways to extend his stay.
 
A green card marriage-of-convenience might be the perfect thing that also benefits both. For me their marriage of convenience comes out of thin air, and I would have liked to see them interact more beforehand. I couldn’t even see any sparks between them while they were ten steps ahead. In addition, the book jumps a bit from month to month and therefore everything happened too fast.
 
Overall, this is a short and sweet book and if you’re looking for a palette cleanser story, definitely check out this one. 3 stars.
 
(ARC kindly provided in exchange for a review.)

I don’t know how Tessa Bailey does it, but it’s another winning story. This novella delivers all the angst, spice and characters, sometimes when you read a novella you are left wanting, needing more from the characters or more from the story. I felt none of that with this - it gave me all I needed. It was perfect.

4.5 stars

Cute. Cinnamon roll hero. Classically Tessa Bailey. Perfect combination for a great short romance.

britta swore of relationships after her father chose his other family over her, derailing the life as she knew it. years later, she’s reconciled with her half brother who plays hockey for her local team and she bar tends at a local popular spot for the team. on New Year’s Eve, her brother drops the truth Bob that sumner’s got to figure out a plan to stay in the country as his work visa is up and asks britta to marry him. britta always thought sumner was a good guy and doesnt want to agree to this but after being offered fifty grand she can’t exactly say no. she agrees with the understanding that they’ll never actually be together, and summer reluctantly agrees.

for such a short book, it packs a lot of detail and plot. i really loved the characters, especially sumner and how much he cares about britta. the spicy was on point (as always with Tessa’s books). highly recommend this one.

This was a fun short spicy read. I found the Audiobook on Amazon Prime and really enjoyed the narrators.
Sumner is a hockey player in Connecticut. He's about to be sent back to Canada. Just when he's gaining traction and recognization on his bid to the NHL. Britta's half brother Bryce tries to convince Britta to do a green card marriage with Sumner. They seem to be smitten with each other. Britta is a commitment phobe and Sumner is a good guy, a relationship guy. We follow their year together and it gets really spicy. 😉😳🥵🔥
I definitely wasn't expecting that. This is my first book by the author and I'm intrigued to read more.

I love a cute and sappy Tessa Bailey book, and thought this novella would fit the bill. I am a sucker for a Green Card marriage of convenience. This book needed the luxury of a few more thousand words so that the characters could be more fully fleshed out. It's saccharine sweet and more than a little cringey with over the top characters and an under-developed plot. Still love me some Tessa Bailey, but not sure this one was "it".

3.5 stars to be exact.

If you overlook the fact that the two main points of the book - green card and hockey - are potrayed inaccurately, this is a quite enjoyable read.

I feel like Tessa Bailey half-asses her books. Which is a shame since she's not a terrible writer. If only she would put more time and effort into research and focused on developing a cohesive story rather than putting new ones out in a rapid pace, her books would have been really great.

Sumner had potential to be a great MMC. We need more guys who's dream is to find their person and get married. Suprisingly, he is down bad for someone who's not a marriage material at all. He got so infatuated with Britta just because she's hot. And jerked off to her for over 2 years. He decided she's his dream girl without having any good conversation with her. It's a bit weird.

Sumner is so giant he's giving Ali Hazelwood a run for her money.

This book reminded me a lot of My Killer Vacation, with just roles reversed. Both had crazy physical attraction and stupid reasoning not to act on it.

Thankfully it's a short read and doesn't beat the dead horse. It's alright for a quick read if you just want to turn your brain off and read borderline porn.

I just reviewed Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey. #SameTimeNextYear #NetGalley
I have heard a lot about the author and everybody seems to love her books.Since I am not a romance reader, I never reached for her.
When got the chance to read this on netgalley ,why not ?
I am amazingly surprised at how much I liked it .Cute little sports lovestory with some very steamy scenes.
This book has convinced me to pick more from her.

Thank you so much to Tessa Bailey and Amazon Original Stories for this eARC in exchange for my honest review💓
2.5⭐️ rounded up

Same Time Next Year is a quick, cute, steamy novella following Sumner, who I immediately fell in love with, and Britta, a feisty bartender/owner. Sumner has been in love with Britta since the moment he laid eyes on her, and there has been no other girl for him except her. He is gentle, kind, respectful, and most importantly, a giant of a man. I would say that the main reason that I enjoyed this novella was because of Sumner. The spice was okay, but I did not feel too connected to the story without the male main character. The pacing was a little off for me, and while Sumner remained somewhat the same character throughout the story, Britta was flirtatious and feisty at the beginning of the book, but became a somewhat shy girl who stuttered a lot as the relationship progressed. I do not understand why her personality changed, regardless of the way her feelings grew for Sumner. I also wish that we saw more of the relationship and how her feelings grew, rather than all of the spice we were provided with. The book gives us little snippets of their relationship every 3 months, so I would have liked to have more emotion as the year passed by in the book rather than seeing what was on the surface. However, I realize that it was a pretty short book and not the same length as a full length novel.

On New Year’s Eve, the team begs Britta to marry Sumner that very night in order for him to keep playing hockey with them. Sum is embarrassed yet hopeful—he’s desperately in love. But Britta balks at first. Until something about Sumner’s soulful brown eyes and ripped physique makes her reconsider…
This novella is about a green card marriage between 2 MCs that have a crush on each other, a hockey, brother's best friend, spicy and very sweet romance. I'm in love with Sumner. He was so swoony and pining, he made me blush. I was really feeling for him while he was navigating Britta's fears and insecurities, which were annoying to me, but Sum made up for it all, making me giddy.
I received an advance review copy of this book for free and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This was a fun fast read. True to Tessa Bailey fashion it is full of spice! I love reading men written by women. They are so caring and thoughtful and sensitive. If I hear of a man claiming that there isn’t an instruction manual for women I will tell them they need to read romance. I will direct them to Tessa Bailey first. Get the dirty talk down, talk about consent and protection, and learn how to go down!
I’m conflicted about the start of Sumner and Britta’s relationship as I think they could’ve hooked up with out having to pretend to get married but maybe that’s the only way Britt’s would’ve warmed to the idea.
If you like fake dating, sports romances, dirty talk, and open door spice give this book a read. It’s ridiculous in the best way. I can’t remember the last time a condom was referred to as a rubber. I was squealing!
I appreciated that this was a novella. Quick and fun.

Spicy scale:: 4/5 (for the description)

Thanks to Net Galley for this free copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book needed to be another 200 pages. It wasn’t a bad book but I needed more insight into who these characters were, more time with them. I also think more pages would have helped make the green card marriage part feel more believable.

Quick and easy read. A predictable plot, but Tessa Bailey was able to tell a good story. A little too much spice for my taste.

Sumner needs a visa, and fast. Britta doesn't *need* anything, but as long as there are no strings attached—and with a payout to sweeten the deal—she's willing to be Sumner's wife...on paper. For now.

I've only read one of Tessa Bailey's books, and I picked up this novella partly to refresh my memory and see if I should read more of her full-length works. And...well, I'm not saying never again, but this isn't really my cup of tea. 2.5 stars. Let's talk about book length, let's talk about sex, and let's talk about getting an American visa.

Book length: Again, this is a novella. That's great in some respects: it's a quick story, readable in one or two sittings, with a focus on the two characters. But...in other respects this feels like Bailey took an idea for a novel and just left out the side plots and characters to focus on the main characters (and the main characters in bed), and that's not generally the strategy I'd suggest for a novella. Makes me wonder whether a full-length version of this wasn't going where the author had hoped...or whether this is meant as a teaser of sorts for longer books set in the same world.

Sex: When I read "It Happened One Summer", I found that the sex was a bit too oh-baby-oh-baby-do-me-harder-oh-baby for my personal reading preferences, and here it's kind of...that on speed. If you like your romance-novel sex explicit, dirty, and full of screaming that should (but inexplicably doesn't) wake the neighbors, this might be one for you. It's still not so much my thing, but I wouldn't be altogether surprised if at some point (in the future or in the past; I haven't gone through her backlist) Bailey opted to eschew the whole 'plot' part of things and write erotica.

Getting an American visa: Don't take your green card advice—or time line—from this book. It is at best *wildly* optimistic and at worst involved not even so much as a basic Google search of research. This is another place where I might have preferred this to be a full-length novel, as in a longer work it could have made a ton of sense as an extended conflict: naïve hero and heroine thinking they can be married, green-carded, and divorced with nary a whiff of suspicion in a year...only to find out that the process will take much longer than that, and either they'll have to stay married for (potentially) years or Sumner will have to give up his green card dreams. But in the shorter version it just...takes quite a lot of willful ignorance of reality and bypassing of hard questions.

Thanks to the author and publisher for providing a review copy through NetGalley.

Oh how I wish this were a full scale novel. Novellas always feel like first drafts to me. It’s too quick to feel the tension and get fully invested in the characters. But such a cute and sweet story regardless.

This is full of the steamy talk we love Tessa Bailey for, but in a mini version. Could be read in a few hours to catch up to year end reading goals.

Oh my God. Tessa Bailey can do no wrong.
Britta and Sumner?? I LOVE them so much. I love how sweet and caring he was, and how he only had eyes for her. Not only this, but he was so patient with Britt's fear of commitment and her past.
And not to mention - he plays hockey. And that just tops it all off.
This was such a quick, fun, spicy, and sweet read! I need more Britta and Sumner.
"...But along the way, Britta, the dream started to include you..."
"...While I replay every moment I've spent with Sumner over the last year and ten months, wondering how someone so freaking huge could get under my skin so easily. Into my heart. Because that's where he is. In a deep, tangled way I don't think I can undo."
"Well, I choose her. I'll choose her every day for eternity."
The easiest 5 stars!