Written in the Stars (The Barracudas Book 3)

This is another absolutely marvelous book by Christopher J. Brice. Equal parts camp, spice, insightful, sweet, silly, and heart-wrenching, I was riveted by Oliver and Ryan’s love story and thoroughly invested. I adore each and every character in the world of BSU and Barracuda Hockey. These guys are just the sweetest, silliest, most marvelous 20 somethings, full of heart and sass and libidos worthy of champion athletes. Quite frankly, the perfect ingredients for stellar rom-coms. Ryan and Oliver were best friends and neighbors 10 years ago. Their friendship was an oasis for each of them, and the innocent love they had for each other felt like sunshine on a cold day. When Ryan’s career military father moves him away suddenly, both boys are left bereft. And when they reconnect in college (through coincidence and roommates), all those old feelings come roaring back, this time with the added bonus of romantic awareness. Ryan’s harbored his crush on Oliver for a decade, and a life throttled by the judgement and pressure of his military father and the loss of his mother has made him petrified of fully embracing himself. Oliver, everyone’s protector, big brother, and voice of reason, wants a summer to enjoy himself. And he wants to do that with Ryan, his childhood best friend, and the man consuming his thoughts. When the yearly hockey team tradition of skinny dipping illegally in the swim team swimming pool ends in a night in campus security’s cells, Oliver and Ryan find themselves…

4.25 rounded down This was suchhhhh a fun read. I haven't read book 1 and 2 in this series and I was able to follow the story and the characters with ease. I will say that if feels like a lot of characters at the beginning because you didn't get the first two stories to intro them, but it didn't take away from the story for me. I really enjoyed the writing. There's really nothing about this book that's groundbreaking. It's not super emotional or super funny, but the writing really kept me engaged from start to finish. I actually read it in one sitting because I was locked into the story the entire time. Oliver and Ryan. Oh my sweet sweet boys. I really loved their love story. I was unsure about the flashbacks at the beginning because something about reading a romance for end of college kids and then getting flash backs to when they're 8-10 years old is a bit odd to me, but they weren't overpowering and more to just show when the boys met. It helped really show the reader how long and well they knew each other. Overall, both Ryan and Oliver were so sweet. I really was rooting for their romance, and found their characters to be really a joy to read. The Ice Queen was giving me gossip girl at the beginning. I liked that the first couple instances of her had no other entry from her other than the post. When we got a bit farther into the book and the entries/posts came with more from her, it got a bit repetitive and almost unnecessary. Her chapter at the end made her…