Why did Alex kiss me? He’ll forget about me in a week, but I’ll remember the taste of him forever.He’s just a popular jock looking for an easy A to keep his scholarship. Acting is all I have, even if I’m always in the background. Being forced to partner with campus hockey god Alex Hayes for our drama final will end in disaster.When someone suggests we act in a love scene, Alex jumps at the … scene, Alex jumps at the chance. I refuse–until he convinces me with a kiss that makes me feel like we’re invincible together. The sparks between us are bright, hot, and leave me hungry for more.
If all we have is one week, I’m taking center stage to put on a show with Alex neither of us can walk away from. Even if I don’t know how to say it, he needs to know I’m in love.
Acts of Love is a low-angst new adult M/M instalove romance featuring a shy theater nerd and a confident college jock connecting in swoony, steamy ways before a guaranteed HEA. It is suggested this series be read in order.
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Acts of love is book number 2.5 of the Cut to the Feeling series by author Noah Steele. This is first-person Pov. While not my favorite POV it does work for this series.
Beckett is a college student. He is in drama class. He has a new partner he is not thrilled at. A guy who really has not attended the class before. He probably doesn’t care about his grades. Not like Beckett who loves this class. He is really hard on his partner. I get why but I felt for Alex. He had a huge wall to get through to be with Beckett.
Alex is a jock. He needs this class to keep his scholarship. He is willing to pull his weight too. He knows he has a lot of learning to do but he wants to do well.
I like how Alex and Beckett grow not just as a couple but as people in this book. I felt the pace of the love story itself was great not too rushed. But what I loved about this story the most is each man finding who they really are in this book and becoming more as a couple than they could apart. Really well done.
I cannot wait for more from this series in the future. I wanna know who falls in love with who next.
Five Shooting Stars
After the intensity of the first 2 books in the series, I consider this wonderful sweet story of Alex and Beckett a kind of interlude… a relaxing time before continuing with the next book. Easy to read even after a few low angst situations, this story is nice and romantic with some amazing hot scenes. Loved it!
I received this book as an ARC and this is my honest opinion.
This is definitely the best in the series so far, IMO, as the characters actually get to know each other, even though it still fits the Insta-love trope.
Beckett is in drama class, and he and his partner already have their final project almost complete. When he is called in for a meeting backstage at the auditorium, he’s not sure what to expect. He does, however, recognize the school’s most famous hockey player of the time sitting in his chair when he turns back from looking through the curtains.
They strike up a conversation, and Beckett finds himself enjoying talking with Alex, or Lex. That is until the drama instructor and Alex’s coach inform him that he has a new partner and one week to prepare for the final project with a jock who hasn’t bothered to show up the entire semester.
But as the two young men work together, they learn more about each other as people. They fell for each other with the first kiss, but with each secret shared, every obstacle overcome, and every dream brought to light, they find themselves entwined more and more in each others lives. There is some angst and family drama, and some binds are broken leading to happier living. And in the end, Beckett and Lex get their happily ever after.
* I received an ARC of this book and I am leaving my honest review. *
This was a short and sweet romance between college hockey star, Alex and theater guy Beckett. Their instant attraction and love was fitting for college and the opposites attract theme was adorable as Alex had a soft artistic side to him as well. The book was a cute break from the main characters in this series.
“We might not be perfect, I thought, but whatever we are, we’re together”
It’s never easy going against the plans that your parents have made for you, even when those plans make you miserable. Being on the ice and playing hockey has always been fun for Alex, but his father wants Alex to make it his life’s career. An oversight on Alex’s part gets him temporarily suspended from the team, until he can pull his grade up in his theater class. A class that he completely forgot that he was enrolled in! Alex is relying heavily on Beckett, a fellow class mate, to ‘make the grade’ and reinstate Alex to the hockey team. But along the way Alex realizes that there is more to life than just hockey. There’s Beckett.
Will Alex get the courage to stand up to his father? Will he find the strength to tell Beckett how he feels? Will Beckett allow himself to ‘act’ on his hearts desires?
Follow Alex and Beckett on their journey to find out.