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The Risk (Briar U Book 2) Kindle Edition

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A sexy standalone novel from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy.

Everyone says I’m a bad girl. They’re only partly right—I don’t let fear rule me, and I certainly don’t care what people think. But I draw the line at sleeping with the enemy. As the daughter of Briar’s head hockey coach, I’d be vilified if I hooked up with a player from a rival team.

And that’s who Jake Connelly is. Harvard’s star forward is arrogant, annoying, and too attractive for his own good. But fate is cruel—I require his help to secure a much-coveted internship, and the sexy jerk isn’t making it easy for me.

I need Connelly to be my fake boyfriend.

For every fake date…he wants a real one.

Which means this bad girl is in big trouble. Nothing good can come from sneaking around with Jake Connelly. My father would kill me, my friends will revolt, and my post-college career is on the line. But while it’s getting harder and harder to resist Jake’s oozing sex appeal and cocky grin, I refuse to fall for him.

That’s the one risk I’m not willing to take.
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"Elle Kennedy writes the best sports romances! The Risk was an unputdownable, funny, steamy novel that now has me hooked on reading about hot hockey players!" -- New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward

"Elle Kennedy is the queen of hate-to-love-you sexy romance! A 2019 favorite!"-- Vi Keeland, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Briar U just keeps getting hotter!" -- Sarina Bowen, USA Today bestselling author of Brooklynaire

"The Risk is the perfect combination of humor, heart and heat. No one writes deliciously sexy and laugh-out-loud funny better than Elle Kennedy. I loved this book!" -- USA Today bestselling author Nikki Sloane

About the Author

A New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Elle Kennedy grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, and holds a B.A. in English from York University. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be a writer, and actively began pursuing that dream when she was a teenager. Elle writes romantic suspense and erotic contemporary romance for various publishers. She loves strong heroines and sexy alpha heroes, and just enough heat and danger to keep things interesting!

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07G4H3665
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Elle Kennedy Inc. (February 18, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 18, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1689 KB
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 402 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 172828130X
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A New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Elle Kennedy grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, and holds a B.A. in English from York University. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be a writer, and actively began pursuing that dream when she was a teenager.

Elle currently writes for various publishers. She is the author of more than 50 titles of contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels, including the global sensation Off-Campus series.

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“Hockey is a game. You’re my life.” - YESSSSSSS!!!!!
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“Hockey is a game. You’re my life.” - YESSSSSSS!!!!!
“Hockey is a game. You’re my life.”4.5/5 stars!Brenna and Jake cross paths fairly often being in the hockey world, but she's always been able to keep him at arms length and ignore their attraction to each other. When she needs him to help her impress an interviewer for the internship she wants, she strikes a deal with him. She needs him to go to a dinner party as her fake boyfriend, but he wants a real date for every one he has to fake.I adored this book! I loved this one even more than the first book, and I kind of knew I would. Brenna was my favorite in the first book so getting her story was so exciting! Jake was also a fave, I have always liked the borderline overly confident guys (seriously I married one of them) so Jake with his super attractive confidence was very appealing. This is only my second book in Briar U Hockey world, but so far Brenna and Jake are my favorite! And the banter is still amazing in this series.
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Claudia Fosca Stahl
5.0 out of 5 stars The Risk is hockey romance perfection
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2019
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I loved The Risk so much. It is amazing. Elle Kennedy is a gifted writer and a master storyteller, and you can see her talent shine throughout this whole story. The characters are wonderful, the story is engaging, and the dynamics between Brenna and Jake are hilarious and full of heat. The rest of the cast is also very entertaining, and you can see how Summer, Hollis, Hunter, Fitzy and Brooks, characters you met in The Chase, are doing. The hockey factor is really thrilling in this one, and the suspense makes it really exciting to read. It is so well written that the story simply flows.

The Risk is a mix of rivals-to-lovers and fake relationship. Brenna and Jake belong to rival colleges. He is Harvard’s hockey team captain, and she is a loyal Briar fan and the daughter of Briar’s coach. They are basically enemies, and have been antagonizing each other since the moment they met.

Their chemistry is off the charts, and the banter between them is both hilarious and so very hot. The attraction they feel toward each other is really strong, but since they are rivals, they try keep it under control. That is until Brenna needs Jake to pretend to be her boyfriend so she can have a chance to get the internship she covets. In exchange, Jake wants a real date.

Things start getting out of control once they start hanging out together, and the attraction proves to be to strong for them to keep their hands off each other. This thing between them can’t go anywhere though. He’s going to the NHL after graduation, and she still has a year left of college and her own dreams to persue. They will have to decide if the feelings they have for each other are worth fighting for, to open themselves to the other and share not only their deepest and darkest secrets, but to stop hiding from their friends and family and make it work.

I love both Brenna and Jake. They are witty and funny and really likable. Brenna is gorgeous, sarcastic and confident, but has a few regrets. Her relationship with her father is strained, and a person from her past reappears to make her life more complicated.

Jake is cocky, gorgeous and has only one thing on his mind. Hockey. It’s his life. He’s graduating and heading to the NHL, but is determined to lead his team to the Frozen Four and win the national title. He doesn’t need any distractions, but he can’t seem to stop thinking about Brenna.

They way the relationship between them progresses from animosity to friendship and then to lovers is perfectly done, and the obstacles they face make the story very emotional and fun at the same time.

I loved everything about The Risk, and I can’t wait to read The Play. Seriously. The Risk is everything you want in a sports romance novel, so for me it deserves at least 10 stars. It is, simply put, a real pleasure to read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Steamy, fun read in the Briar U arc
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2019
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I’ve gotta say, I definitely enjoyed this book much more than the first stand-alone in the Briar U arc. It was funny, heartfelt, steamy (as always), but also showed more sides to people than just those in the universities, and I think that really played a big role in my overall enjoyment of this book.

Brenna is, probably, my favorite person. She’s tough as nails, she wears red lipstick as her armor, she doesn’t give two shits if someone doesn’t like her, she’s sassy, intelligent. She’s a woman after my own heart. I also very much admire her self-control of her temper in certain parts of the book, because I don’t think I’d be a big enough person to be able to hold my tongue to the kinds of comments she received numerous times from some of the men in the novel.

Jake is… well, he’s a steamy man, I’ll give him that, and he’s alpha, which, if you don’t know what that means, it means he’s the kind of person who’s in charge, who takes the lead, doesn’t take “no” for an answer, is very loyal to his team. Well, Jake will take “no” for an answer, so he’s not the kind of stereotypical jerk alpha that I’ve read in stories before. But he definitely exudes a presence in the book. People just notice him, and not just because he’s handsome as heck.

We also got to see smatterings of Summer from the first book, The Chase, as well as Fitz, Hunter, Mike Hollis, and one new character whom I LOVE and am soooo glad she’s getting her own book: Rupi. I fell in love with her almost instantly. She’s very quirky and determined and very much won’t take “no” for an answer.

The plot centered a lot around the hockey tournaments that Jake’s team, Harvard, and Brenna’s dad’s team, Briar, are preparing for and to face each other to go onto nationals, but it also centers a lot around Brenna striving to get her dream internship. I appreciated seeing that side of the field and how, yes, even today there’s a lot of misogyny in the sports broadcasting field. It was believable the way some of the men talked about women, and like I said earlier: I applaud Brenna for holding her tongue, because I really don’t think I would have been able to.

There was also a smaller second element to the plot that played into it about Brenna’s past, and let me tell you: the story behind her past was a shock that I did not see coming and I literally did a double take reading it. Definitely a good plot twist.

The dynamic between Brenna and her father is also one I understand, even if my own dad isn’t quite like hers. I understand how hard it is to want to be close, but not understanding how to get close, or when that closeness faded away. And the ugly shame that comes with feeling you’re a huge disappointment to your parent. It was very much a real moment, and I almost cried as a result of it.

The sex scenes were quite steamy, as expected of these Briar University books, which I’m not complaining about. The scenarios were different almost each time, the romance aspect felt a little rushed, but also the chemistry between the two had already been established, so it was an overall great element to the story.

I only wish there had been a different ending. Not that the ending was bad, I was just hoping we would have seen slightly farther into the future, or that there had been just one more chapter.

But I definitely recommend the book if you’re reading the Briar U arc, and even if you’re not and want a steamy romance, then definitely pick this one up!

4.5 stars
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Chrissan
5.0 out of 5 stars Eine wundervolle enemies-to-lovers/Fakedating-Geschichte
Reviewed in Germany on April 6, 2024
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Ich mochte dieses Buch sehr, Brenna mochte ich in "The Chase" schon sehr und habe Jake und sie schon in dem Buch geshippt haha, weshalb ich so gespannt auf dieses Buch war und ich wurde definitiv nicht enttäuscht. Ich liebe die Charakterentwicklung in diesem Buch von Jake und von Brenna und wie sich das ganze aufgebaut hat und es war auch schön die verletzliche Seite dieser doch so starken Charaktere zu sehen, die beiden ergeben zusammen ein echtes Powercouple. Auch die Hintergrundgeschichten fand ich hier super, z.B. die ganze Rupi und Hollis Sache 😂 Und natürlich auch endlich mehr über den legendären Coach Jensen zu erfahren. Ich fand auch die Themen, die angesprochen wurden, sehr wichtig, unter anderem die Frauenfeindlichkeit im Sportbereich. Zudem hatte das Buch auch eine gewisse Emotionalität, es hat mich richtig zum Weinen gebracht. Alles in allem mal wieder ein sehr gutes Buch von Elle Kennedy ❤️ Das Briar U Universum hat es mir echt angetan haha, sowohl die Off Campus Reihe als auch die Briar U Reihe 🥰
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Marija Perisic
5.0 out of 5 stars Jake Connelly is the new Garret Graham!
Reviewed in France on November 1, 2023
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Never have I thought that another of Elle’s written men could come and make me fall in love with him as much as Garret did, but here we are. Don’t get me wrong, I ADORE all of the Off-Campus and Briar U boys, Dean especially, but none of them dethroned Garret in my heart. And here comes Jake Connelly and joins Garret on the best-book-boyfriend position.

Jake is the perfect mixture of all the previous Off-Campus men. He probably resembles Garret the most with his talent, confidence and cockiness, but has Dean’s self-assurance and a tad of selfishness, Logan’s loyalty and Tucker’s unruffledness. But he also comes with a fire in him, a kind of fire that I haven’t noticed in the other men so it was only natural that he had to be paired up with a female heroine who would know how to respond to and challenge that fire. So it’s not a surprise that Brenna was the one to steal his heart.

Brenna, such a force to be reckoned with. She has all of the beautiful traits of the other Elle heroines, she’s kind, honest, loyal, strong, independent, confident, but also cocky which was not so much the case with the previous girls. She has a fire in her that matches Jake’s own and they are literally two peas in a pod in every aspect. They are both unapologetic about who they are and what they want and they don’t shy away from voicing their thoughts and desires.

I just adored watching their relationship grow and just like with Hannah and Garret I have zero doubts they’re gonna spend the rest of their lives together because they are literally made, designed for each other. Don’t get me wrong. I fell in love with and believed in all the other Off-Campus and Briar U couples, but it was only H and G that made me feel they were soulmates at a 100% and the same thing happened now with B and J.

Can’t wait to dive into Hunter’s story next!

Shout out to Hollis and Rupi! They were such an amazing comic relief. I was laughing out loud with all of their scenes. They are so perfect for each other LOL!
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Maria
5.0 out of 5 stars 5/5
Reviewed in Spain on June 20, 2022
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Increíble. Esta saga me está enamorando con cada libro.
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anushka
5.0 out of 5 stars So so good
Reviewed in India on March 9, 2021
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Wowww 😍😍😍 this is all u need.. from drama to so good chemistry between rivals 😍 I am smitten by it and it's a must read!! It's the best story after THE DEAL.
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Arian
5.0 out of 5 stars Read it! You won’t regret it
Reviewed in Mexico on March 24, 2019
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Funny, spicy...full of everything
The plot was good and again Elle keeps me in love and falling for all of her characters
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