Hot by Halloween

Squad Goals, Book 1

By: M.F. Lorson, Jessica Bucher

Narrated by: Tanya Dougherty

Summer may be over, but she’s ready to bring the heat.

When her boyfriend shattered her universe last spring, Addy convinced herself that if only she were a little hotter, then she could have kept him. Which is why her senior year goal is to get revenge.

Step one: Join the swim team and get seriously fit.

Step two: Find some gorgeous new arm candy to take to ex’s big Halloween party and make him crazy with jealousy.

Step three: Try not to fall super hard for said arm candy.

Gray Turner is a California transplant with goals of his own: Get the swim team to regionals, get the scholarship he needs, and get out of this town. Too bad some girl with zero swim skills just joined the team. Private lessons seem like a good idea...until lessons start to feel like something more.

Addy and Gray started the season with specific plans, but falling for one another wasn’t one of them.

©2019 Jennifer Costley (P)2019 Jennifer Costley

cute story

cute story, good narration look forward to listening to other books by this author

So Incredibly Cute

This sweet book has a romance that makes a person wish everyone had that high school experience.
Addy is sweet and identifiably flawed, but not in the roll-your-eyes 90s rom-com type of way. Grey is hot, but not in the cheesy-romance “Yeah. Right!”, kind of way. Together they are golden, even if swim team gold might be asking for too much.
A perfect coming of age story.

An entertaining YA listen

Overall, a fun to listen to story. Chapter structure of having events told from each of the main character's point of view, with Tanya Dougherty's clear storytelling and well defined characters, provides easy access to the tale. While the main male character (Gray) at times seems a bit too good to be true, and some of the writing a bit clunky (in particular, the tech vernacular is a bit off at times in this book), the coming of age themes are dealt with in funny and endearing ways.

Love this clean YA romance!

I really enjoyed this book and the narrator did a fantastic job! I liked that there were a few different possibilities that could go wrong as their break up/ misunderstandings. Another sweet HS romance I loved reading.

Cute and sweet YA

Cute and sweet story. Narration was good. Kept me into the story. Nice start to a series. No cliffhanger, but definitely ended leaving me with intrigue to the rest of the series character development.