Why You'll Love This
Agreeing to help your best friend find someone else while falling for her yourself is a special kind of slow-burn torture — and Ryan makes every page of it count.
- Great if you want: friends-to-lovers with genuine emotional stakes and hockey-world charm
- The experience: fast, fun, and warm — reads in one or two sittings easily
- The writing: Ryan alternates dual POVs to milk every drop of romantic tension
- Skip if: you prefer emotional complexity over crowd-pleasing romance beats
About This Book
There's something quietly electric about watching two people who already know each other better than anyone else finally reckon with what's actually been there all along. In All the Way, Becca is cautiously stepping back into the dating world after a painful past, and she turns to her best friend—hockey player Owen Parrish—to be her guide. Owen agrees. Then immediately regrets it. The tension isn't just physical; it's the specific ache of wanting someone you're terrified to lose, and Kendall Ryan makes sure readers feel every inch of that distance before it closes.
Ryan writes best-friends-to-lovers with a light, propulsive touch that keeps pages turning without sacrificing the emotional weight underneath. The banter is sharp and genuinely funny, but she never lets it become a shield against the vulnerability both characters are carrying. The result is a romance that balances heat with heart in a way that feels earned rather than rushed. At 344 pages, it moves quickly but lands its emotional beats with care—the kind of book that's easy to start and surprisingly hard to put down before the end.
