The Deal (Off-Campus, #1)

by Elle Kennedy

[Cocktails and Books]

The Deal leads you in one direction and then takes you in another.

I had a hard time getting into the book at first. I thought I already read this somewhere else. Same story same outcome.

I am so glad that I continued on.

College students Hannah and Garrett are a part of different social circles. Garrett being the popular all-star hockey player who happens to be the Big Man on Campus, and Hannah is… Not. Garrett needs a tutor for his Ethics class so he can make up a test that he failed, or he won’t be able to play in the upcoming game. Hannah being only a handful of students who passed the test seems like the likely candidate to help him out.

The Characters of Garrett and Hannah aren’t as simple as they seem. Hannah a survivor of rape, handles herself pretty well. She knows what happened to her was not her fault but she still can’t seem to get intimate with a guy. That is until she sees a new guy in her class named Justin Kohl. She thinks he will be the one to get her over her intimacy problems. But, he doesn’t know she is alive.

Garrett, a charming hockey player who has a sad background himself and whose only focus is making it pro and has no desires to have a relationship with a girl anytime soon. Now that his chance at playing at the big game is hindering on him passing his ethics exam he needs to go and get Hannah to tutor him at any cost.

Garrett’s Deal for Hannah

Tutor me and I will get Justin to notice you.

Well the deal got lost somewhere along the way and these two realized that they were both broken and needed each other to heal. Their relationship grew from one of tutor, to one of friendship and to one of love and trust.

Reviewed by BookBud for Cocktails and Books