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Bro Smooth: An Unconventional Speedcubing Sports Romance
Journalism student Rebecca yearns to be a big shot reporter and will stop at nothing to achieve her dream. She'll even cover a local speedcubing competition, if it means her editor will give her a chance to do more than fetch coffee.
The flyer advertised the competition that would change her life. After watching her mom lose her identity to a toxic marriage, Rebecca's eyes are only on her future career.
Until she meets Lukas, Felix, Elliot, and Sebastian.
The speedcubing team is eager to help Rebecca accomplish everything she thinks she needs to do before she graduates—write a killer article that will get her noticed at her newspaper internship, maintain a perfect GPA, and check a few boxes on a naughty to-do list. Just because she doesn’t want a relationship shouldn’t mean she can’t still have a good time, right?
The problem is, she’s starting to fall for them, and she dreads the possibility that what is between her and the speedcubing team might be real almost as much as she dreads the idea of losing herself and her dreams just like her mother did.
With her future on the line, can Rebecca have both a rewarding career and true love?
Bro Smooth is the emotional second standalone book in The Bro Series sports romance collection. If you enjoy college sport romances and nerdy book boyfriends, then you’ll love Alby Blake’s uncconventional sports romance.
Fall in love with these eager speedcubers today.
The flyer advertised the competition that would change her life. After watching her mom lose her identity to a toxic marriage, Rebecca's eyes are only on her future career.
Until she meets Lukas, Felix, Elliot, and Sebastian.
The speedcubing team is eager to help Rebecca accomplish everything she thinks she needs to do before she graduates—write a killer article that will get her noticed at her newspaper internship, maintain a perfect GPA, and check a few boxes on a naughty to-do list. Just because she doesn’t want a relationship shouldn’t mean she can’t still have a good time, right?
The problem is, she’s starting to fall for them, and she dreads the possibility that what is between her and the speedcubing team might be real almost as much as she dreads the idea of losing herself and her dreams just like her mother did.
With her future on the line, can Rebecca have both a rewarding career and true love?
Bro Smooth is the emotional second standalone book in The Bro Series sports romance collection. If you enjoy college sport romances and nerdy book boyfriends, then you’ll love Alby Blake’s uncconventional sports romance.
Fall in love with these eager speedcubers today.
348 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 18, 2025
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November 20, 2025
I thought this one was good but not great! It was super entertaining and really spicy, but it felt unfinished in a lot of ways. I really like the way the FMC thought about things it was very anxiety coded and I found it quite relatable to how I feel especially in social situations. Over all I felt like plot had a lot of loose ends. For example:
1. I wish that we got more details bout her shitty internship and how all that played out. (Why did she not immediately call HR) her “manager” was a total misogynistic dick and she just let it happen over and over. I wish we would have seen her stand up for herself especially because through the whole book her goal is to take care of herself and not rely on other people.
2. What was even happening with her parents, first of all her mom has some deeper issues when it comes to her attachment to her dad. Second her dad is a piece of trash and she says that many times but then she still is surprised when he proves that it’s true. Then he mom goes to the hospital and has to have two major back to back surgery’s and the FMC decides that’s the time to abandon her because she doesn’t like that her mom is pretty much having psychotic break. The FMC had every change to talk to her mom and express concern and if that wasn’t working cut her off or something during the book she had several long conversations with her mom over the phone but chose to say nothing. It bugged me that she waited until that moment and then was like btw I’m leaving good luck. I didn’t love that at all it was weird timing.
3. The FMC very obviously has anxiety and some trust issues (see the dad thing above) she needs some kind of therapy. she spent the whole book saying “I don’t want to be in a relationship” “I don’t want to rely on a man” etc. only to change her mind in the last second. I understand that she realized that the guy are not like her dad but it was a bit dramatic of a character shift for me for her to one second be yelling at her mom about how she is dumb for letting her dad walk all over her and for relying on a man (mind you her mom had just woken up form a surgery) only to then literally 3 seconds later run out of the hospital with her four boyfriends. I wish the author would have approached that in a different way so that it was more subtle and not a complete 180
These plot points didn’t feel flushed out enough so it was very jarring to move from one thing to the next in the last 90% of the book as things started to wind down. I did have a fun time reading but if I were recommending to a friend this book would not be the first on my list.
1. I wish that we got more details bout her shitty internship and how all that played out. (Why did she not immediately call HR) her “manager” was a total misogynistic dick and she just let it happen over and over. I wish we would have seen her stand up for herself especially because through the whole book her goal is to take care of herself and not rely on other people.
2. What was even happening with her parents, first of all her mom has some deeper issues when it comes to her attachment to her dad. Second her dad is a piece of trash and she says that many times but then she still is surprised when he proves that it’s true. Then he mom goes to the hospital and has to have two major back to back surgery’s and the FMC decides that’s the time to abandon her because she doesn’t like that her mom is pretty much having psychotic break. The FMC had every change to talk to her mom and express concern and if that wasn’t working cut her off or something during the book she had several long conversations with her mom over the phone but chose to say nothing. It bugged me that she waited until that moment and then was like btw I’m leaving good luck. I didn’t love that at all it was weird timing.
3. The FMC very obviously has anxiety and some trust issues (see the dad thing above) she needs some kind of therapy. she spent the whole book saying “I don’t want to be in a relationship” “I don’t want to rely on a man” etc. only to change her mind in the last second. I understand that she realized that the guy are not like her dad but it was a bit dramatic of a character shift for me for her to one second be yelling at her mom about how she is dumb for letting her dad walk all over her and for relying on a man (mind you her mom had just woken up form a surgery) only to then literally 3 seconds later run out of the hospital with her four boyfriends. I wish the author would have approached that in a different way so that it was more subtle and not a complete 180
These plot points didn’t feel flushed out enough so it was very jarring to move from one thing to the next in the last 90% of the book as things started to wind down. I did have a fun time reading but if I were recommending to a friend this book would not be the first on my list.
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