The Bookworm

*Mini Review*

(Clean YA Rom-com)

📚The Bookworm by Kylie Key📚

Book 2 in The Girls We Love: Covington Prep series. [But can be read out of order] 

Blurb:

The Popular Jock and the Bookish Nerd

I’m Tennessee Jackson, wide receiver, touchdown scoring machine. When Millie Conway interviews me for the school paper, I’m caught a little off guard. In all my years at Covington Prep, we’ve never shared a class. Like, brains, bookish—it’s not really my thing. She’s one of the smartest kids in school, which puts her way out of my league, but there’s something about Millie that makes my heart skip a beat. Yet whenever I’m around her, I keep messing up. How do I get into the bookworm’s good books?

MILLIE

I thought that being Covington Prep’s sports reporter was my worst nightmare. And it is. All I want to do is write my book review column and share my love of books,

but now I’m following the Covington Chargers, interviewing players and writing football reports. Tennessee Jackson helps me with my first interview and sure, the confident football star is cute and tall and has all those muscles, but I’m happy in my world of imaginary book boyfriends. I don’t need a real one. And besides, we have absolutely nothing in common. I’m not interested in him at all. So, why can’t I stop thinking about him? And when I learn his secret why does my heart care so much?

Tropes and Things you’ll love:

❣️Jock + book nerd

❣️Sports Romance 

❣️High school 

❣️Opposites Attract 

❣️Football Romance 

❣️MMC is secretly dyslexic 

❣️FMC is shy and has no confidence 

❣️No spice, no swearing

Ok, this was actually really cute! Not my favorite, but still cute. 

I’ve recently been getting into rom-coms and I feel like YA rom-coms are so relatable to me right now; because I’m a teenager in (homeschool) high school. 

The whole jock x bookish nerd is a trope that seems to intrigue me, because in school it’s really uncommon for that to happen. 

*~ Characters ~*

Millie was a cute and (shy yes) but she had this thing about her that made her intriguing, even to me. {It’s not just you who sees that, Tennessee!}I thought it was pretty cool that she was a sort of a reporter for the sports football team! -even though she knew nothing about sports-

Tennessee , Ten for short, was not the best MMC, but wasn’t the worst. I thought it was SO cute to see how he admired how smart Millie was and compare himself to her. And then we find out he has dyslexia. I felt so bad for him because he was so embarrassed about it, but Millie had the SWEETEST reaction to it! On top of all this, all the other side characters were done well! 

*~ Conclusion ~*

I really liked this cute sports rom-com! It showed what a real high school couple (and im talking about a REAL couple who are complete opposites) should look like! I loved a lot of the quotes in this book, the author’s writing, and will be looking out for more of Kylie Key’s books. I would totally recommend this book if you’re looking for a sweet football romcom to enjoy, and definitely one that you’ll stay up reading till’ Millie and Tennessee get their HEA! 

My rating: 4 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

⚠️ Age recommendation: 14+ ⚠️

🔥Romance: Up to non-descriptive kissing 

🤬Language: none -except for a few darns

💣Violence: none really 

LGBTQ content: none 



POVs: Dual POV 

Millie and Tennessee