Dream Girl Drama

A Novel

De: Tessa Bailey

Narrado por: Callie Dalton, Teddy Hamilton

A steamy chance encounter between a professional hockey player and the manic pixie dream girl he just can’t seem to forget takes a turn when the pair realize that their parents are engaged—in an all-new rom-com by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey.

When professional hockey player Sig Gauthier’s car breaks down and his phone dies, he treks into a posh private country club to call a tow truck, where he encounters the alluring Chloe Clifford, the manic pixie dream girl who captivates him immediately with her sense of adventure and penchant for stealing champagne.

Sparks fly during a moonlight kiss and the enamored pair can’t wait to see each other again, but when Sig finally arrives to meet his dad’s new girlfriend over dinner, Chloe is confusingly also there. Turns out the girlfriend is Chloe’s mother. Oh, and they’re engaged.

Sig’s dream girl is his future stepsister.

Though the pair is now wary of being involved romantically, Chloe, a sheltered harp prodigy, yearns to escape her controlling mother. Sig promises to teach her the ins and outs of independence in Boston—but not inside his bedroom. They both know there can never be more than friendship between a famous hockey player and his high-society, soon-to-be stepsister. But keeping their relationship platonic grows harder amid the developing family drama, especially knowing they were meant for so much more…

My favorite storyline of out of the 3 book series

I adore Tessa Baileys writing. I can’t put them down every time. You meet this couple in the second book of the series and they blend so well together.

Tessa Bailey does it again!

I was sooooo hoping for a Sig and Chloe book after Au Pair Affair and Lordy did she deliver. This book was perfection from start to finish and I loved the narration! Tessa knows how to give the people what we want.

omg so good, spice, cute plot, hilarious

just read it!
these narrators are amazing and this book is fricking fantastic.
the spice is top notch, the story is ADORABLE, and I'll definitely be rereading this one a lot!

Love, love, love

So excited for the third installment in the series and it did not disappoint. Tessa did such a great job with the characters and I am so happy with this book.

Loved Callie Dalton’s performance, story was weak.

Story needed more humor from the hockey players -or anybody, if the characters were going to be so one-dimensional. The premise was over the top unbelievable, and a bit boring. Male hero pines. Spends a lot of time doing it. HEA. The end.

Not my favorite

I usually love Tessa Baileys works but found both Sig and Chloe to be annoying and didn’t have much chemistry. There were some good parts and tension but by the end I was just forcing myself to get to the end. I think it’s not my favorite but I have strong feelings of dislike so Tessa Bailey did write a good story that had me feeling some emotions…even if it was mostly me suffering through spite.

Love Hockey Romances

🥅 🏒 Dream Girl Drama by @tessabaileyisanauthor 🏒🥅
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5
🎧9 hrs. 14 mins.

✨My Review:
Dream Girl Drama is about professional hockey player named Sig who’s car breaks down so he goes to an uppity country club to use a phone since his is dead. There he meets Chloe who he gets to know and really feels a strong connection with. There’s a surprise though, when Sig meets his dad for a family dinner to announce his engagement, Chloe happens to be his father’s, fiancées daughter! From there they have to navigate how to handle this situation while Sig is in the spotlight. They have an amazing connection but Chloe is soon to be his step-sister 🥴

I’m convinced that Tessa Bailey can do no wrong! I love this sports romance series and how Tessa incorporates the other characters from the previous books into this one. I love a good hockey romance as well! Sig and Chloe’s relationship chemistry was off the charts. You want them to be together but the situation is a little weird

a LOT of angst

kinda hard to take the central conflict seriously. I mean sure, it might look awkward, but I can't believe that a romance between adult children of people marrying for the 3rd or 4th time would be taken as such a ground breaking taboo.
Have I been reading too much romance? I mean, at this point a romance between heterosexual humans seems a little meh on the shock scale.

One of TB’s best! 🌶️ 4/5 Explicit Open Door, 2+ scenes

I’ve listened to 14 Tessa Bailey books in the past year—this is the best one yet!

Key tropes: “Forbidden” Love, Angst, Caretaking, Stern Brunch Daddy

🌶️ 4/5 Explicit Open Door, 2+ scenes
POV: Third person
🎧: Teddy Hamilton!!! & Callie Dalton (I find her irritating at times). So glad to have Teddy reading half of the chapters. 😅
Standalone: Can be done; but MCs from this book have significant “friend of” status in book 2.
Setting: Connecticut & Boston, Mass.
MMC 🏒: Sig, 29, Pro Hockey player for 6 years, raised by a single mom. Burgess’ friend.
FMC 🎶: Chloe, 25, plays the harp, lives with mom, wealthy, sheltered. Tallulah’s friend.

Key tropes: “Forbidden” Love, Angst, Caretaking, Stern Brunch Daddy

Au Pair Affair was just OK to me. Anyone who was turned off by that book should totally give Dream Girl a shot. There is a greater emphasis on character development and the angst in this book, less humor and wild sex than in Bailey’s books from the past 5 years.

Move over It Happened One Summer, Getaway Girl, and Unfortunately Yours. I’ve got a new favorite Tessa Bailey book!!!! This is so completely different—the pinning, the angst, the chemistry! I had no idea TB would write a combo slow burn AND insta-love, but gosh it worked! Fans of TB’s incredible gift of writing spice/steam, fret not, it’s there, you just have to wait more than 50% of the book.

Hockey is not as big a part of this book as it was in the Au Pair Affair. We were introduced to the team, the life of a pro hockey player, how dangerous it is, etc in the previous book. Sig has been playing with the Boston Bearcats for 6 years, his whole professional career. He was a third round draft pick, didn’t have a lucrative contract. That said minimum annual salary in the NHL has risen to $700,000. Sig’s contract is expiring, he’s placing high pressure on himself to provide for both his mother and Chloe a good life (and Chloe definitely comes from the 1 percenters).

Thank you soooo much Avon, Net Galley, and of course Tessa Bailey for the eARC of this book. I used Audible credits and listened to Fangirl Down & The Au Pair Affair back-to-back in July 2024. I was crushed when I realized not only would it be a 6 month wait for book 3, but I was dying to know Sig & Chloe’s story. I loved it so much I preordered the signed copy from Ripped Bodice and the audiobook from Audible.

3 chili peppers

It was hard to not get frustrated with the premise that they couldn’t be together because they’d be step siblings. 🙄
Once you suspend disbelief, the book is great. The narrators were perfect together. The chemistry was great.