Solid Spicy Series Swan Song. This is it. The moment the series has been building to – Everly’s story. And for those who have read this series to this point, it absolutely does not disappoint. We’ve got the hilarity. We’ve got the habanero spice, maybe even hotter – those that prefer a warm glass of milk, yeah, this series isn’t for you, and this conclusion definitely isn’t. We’ve got the returning cast of characters – all of them, including the animals. We’ve got the heart.
New this time, we’ve got a sports romance that uses terms from the sport as a bit of narrative structure and yes, does show at least a couple of games – though this is absolutely romance first, sports second. Also new this time we’ve got a bit of Fifty Shades going on to a degree (to be clear, the non-bedroom side of that tale), and this is one area that will perhaps be more hit or miss for some readers – but also one that works fairly well to grab in a lot of male readers generally turned away by so many romance books.
Ultimately, this *is* a series conclusion that must also stand on its own and tell its own tale while also wrapping up the series, and it does all of this rather well. Readers who have gotten this far into the series will be left satisfied, and readers who pick this book up first… well, I hope you don’t mind at least a few spoilers and at least some element of “what the fuck is going on here”. Yes, I cannot stress this enough: Begin this series with Nine Month Contract, book 1 of this spinoff series, at minimum, if not Last On The List, which actually first introduced Everly and her dad. (Nine Month Contract is absolutely sufficient here, but completionists/ those adamantly opposed to any spoiler whatsoever should likely start with the earlier book.)
Truly a fun read, if a touch long for many romance novels at roughly 450 pages, this really is a great conclusion to its series and one that executes well on all that had been set up before.
Very much recommended.
This review of Bad Boy Era by Amy Daws was originally written on May 26, 2026.