The Bromance Book Club

The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams (2019) 339 pages

Gavin is a major league baseball player whose marriage is in trouble. Thea, his wife, made an admission to him which crumbled his sexual confidence, and instead of talking, he clammed up. He spent a month in the guest room and finally moved out. She wants a divorce, fed up with the life that baseball wives have to endure, her own dreams deferred, and a husband that has just proven that men cannot be trusted to stay and work things out. Gavin hits bottom, drinking himself into stupidity after moving into a cheap hotel. A group of his baseball team friends intervene. When Gavin tells them that he wants to save his marriage, his friends counsel him to win back his wife using a romance novel as a guide. The novel pivots between Gavin's and Thea's points of view, along with a storyline from a romance novel that Gavin's friends think mirrors the issues in the marriage. The result is a merry-go-round of relationship ups and downs: Will Thea even give Gavin another chance? Will Gavin quit saying things that make the situation worse? Will Thea's sister quit encouraging her to file for divorce? I had to see how it ended.