Dirty Swedish Player

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Dirty Swedish Player is a funny sports romance, it's the third book in the Big Stick series but it can be read as a standalone. I haven't read the first two books in this series, although I really want to read the first one, and I had no problem following Nils and Sierra's story.
First of all, I really liked Sierra, she's funny, sweet and a great friend, I loved her friendship with Sloane and the way she tried to babysit Sloane's mom (which might be the most hilarious character EVER!).
Nils isn't exactly my favorite character and that impacted how much I enjoyed the story. At first, Nils is just a horny college hockey player who drinks too much, then he's the same even after college, at that point we don't know what went down between him and Sierra but we know he messed up somehow. Anyway, I wasn't loving Nils in the first half of the book but I wasn't disliking him either, then after knowing what he did to Sierra... well I was hurt for her, there were some things he said that made me angry and honestly I was expecting more from his apology and his main reason to do what he did (this is me trying to be cryptic) was a little weak. I can't say much more because I would be spoiling the story.
Still, I can overlook some of it (not the apology or the timing of it) because they were in college and everyone does dumb things in college (I sure did!). Furthermore, there are some redeeming moments and some character growth through the story which made me warm up to him, but honestly I loved Oli and Myles (two of Nils best friends and teammates) more. Despite this, I enjoyed this story, it was entertaining, steamy, featuring one of my favorite tropes (fake relationship), with great secondary characters and lots of funny moments. Definitely, a solid 3 stars read.