A tragedy with a friend of hers caused her to fail out the previous semester, and now she needs to do well if she wants to stay in school.įake relationships rarely work out in romance novels because that stuff doesn’t stay fake for long, and Skylar and Jacob spend a lot of time pretending it’s not serious when it really is. Skylar goes along with it because she has no intention of dating anyone. Since Jacob wants to focus on school…which means avoiding the women throwing themselves at him…he enlists decide to have a “fake relationship” to help his cause. But as luck would have it, she helps teach the sexual assault classes he has to take, so they find themselves thrown together again and Jacob is able to explain his side of things…minus the date rape thing, which he decides not to disclose for various reasons. Skylar is into Jacob the first time she meets him at a party, and though he seems to be interested in her, he turns her down when she asks him if he wants to “go upstairs.” Not realizing he has a good reason not to go upstairs with anyone, she feels dejected. He’s not happy about the situation, but he wants to play hockey, so he rolls with it. However, he has to keep keeps his GPA up, not get into trouble, and attend a class about sexual assault. One option offered to Jacob is that he go to a college in the U.S.

Jacob is actually a good guy who didn’t have anything to do with the rape and at the time, perceived the situation as one where consent was being given. Jacob is accused of rape at his college in Canada, and even though he’s a favorite for the NHL, he’s now being kicked off his college hockey team. When Life Hands You Lemons, Change Countries For a full synopsis, see this book’s Goodreads page.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Īfter being accused of date rape, a Canadian college student is sent to a college in the states where he can still pursue a hockey career.

On a more serious note, date rape and sexual assault is a huge theme in this book, so consider this a trigger warning. Jammiest is such a fun word, and ever since then, anytime I want to talk about something I like, I want to call it “the jammiest.” I happened to look at the cover page and noticed that the author was there as Kelly Jammiest instead of Kelly Jamieson. Sometimes ARCs have weird typos that (hopefully) don’t show up in the final copy.

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