Betrothal or Breakaway by Leah Brunner review

Title: Betrothal or Breakaway

Author: Leah Brunner

Ch: 50 plus prologue and epilogue

Pg: 318

Series: DC Eagles book 3

Genre: Rom Com

Rating: 5 stars
Publisher: Indie

Ford Remington is the best book boyfriend not just for the reasons you’ll find out once you read Ford and Amber’s story Betrothal and Breakaway by Leah Brunner. The newest book in The DC Eagles series. But because as a teenager he didn’t fall into a certain body spray craze. And as a millennial woman who was in high school during that craze would have loved Ford because didn’t fall into that craze.

But importantly Ford’s a good friend and is willing to put his feelings aside to help Amber when she and her daughter Nella need a safe place to land. And of course, a hockey player holding a baby and glasses let the swooning begin. And he’s a neurodivergent hero who Leah wrote brilliantly because being neurodivergent is a spectrum. As someone who has a cousin on the spectrum and a sister with ADHD, I love seeing neurodivergent characters done right in books.

Amber is a woman who’s pretty much been hurt everyone in her life but her daughter and Ford. Her best friend since childhood and whose friendship she doesn’t want to lose.

My favorite genre in a romance or rom com is marriage of convenience which is something you don’t see much in contemporary rom coms, but I’ve never seen it paired with friends to more not something I tend to always pick up. But with Amber and Ford it works, and I love it. Because their friendship is something they both want to protect going.

Two best friends, a marriage of convenience, a baby, concerned parents an ex, and throw in a hockey team of course chaos is going to ensue. And you get a laugh out loud hockey rom com that’s so much more. There’s always layers to Leah’s books that make it so much more than a simple hockey romance. She’s made me love hockey romances when I normally don’t like sports romances and because of how beautifully she wrote Ford and Ambers story made me love a friends to more story.