The Score

The Score is the Off-Campus book to pick up if Prime Video's second-season news sent you looking for Dean Di Laurentis and Allie Hayes on the page. The series can be read as connected standalones, but this third book benefits from the wider Briar University friend group. Dean arrives as the charming rich kid who seems built for easy wins. Allie arrives at a vulnerable moment after a breakup, trying to make adult choices while everyone around her assumes she will follow the old script.

The book works because Kennedy lets the setup stay simple. A rebound becomes a relationship neither character planned for. The hockey-world pressure matters, but the stronger engine is Dean learning that charm is not the same as steadiness. Allie is not written as a lesson for him. She has her own doubts about ambition, acting, and what kind of future she can afford to want.

Prime Video's official Off Campus page says Season 2 will spotlight Allie and Dean, which makes this the cleanest source-read for viewers waiting on that arc. Read it for speed, banter, and the moment when a romance that begins as avoidance has to become an actual decision.

Dean Di Laurentis is the least worried man in the room until his smoothness stops working.

Allie Hayes is newly single and tired of being treated like she can be folded into someone else's plan. Her arc gives the book its emotional spine.

The Briar group keeps the romance from floating in isolation. Friends, teammates, and exes all make the relationship harder to pretend away.

No. 1 · Dean under pressure. The book gets better once Dean has to stop performing ease.

No. 2 · A clear adaptation lane. Prime Video has already pointed Season 2 toward Allie and Dean.

No. 3 · Connected-standalone comfort. You can start here for the screen hook, then go back to The Deal and The Mistake if the friend group clicks.

Read this if you are...

• Watching Prime Video's Off Campus and want Dean and Allie's source book.
• In the mood for college hockey romance with a lot of social energy.
• Comfortable with new-adult romance heat and messy decisions.
• Looking for a series you can keep reading after one couple's arc ends.

Skip it if you are...

• Looking for a closed-door romance.
• Easily frustrated by characters who use charm to dodge pain.
• Wanting a sports novel where hockey strategy matters more than relationships.
• Trying to avoid grief-adjacent turns inside a light-looking romance.

• Read The Deal first if you want the full ensemble setup.
• Treat the adaptation as a remix, not a scene-by-scene promise.
• Watch how Dean's public confidence differs from his private behavior.
• Save the later Off-Campus books for after you know the group dynamic works for you.

• Elle Kennedy - The Mistake. Logan and Grace's book deepens the same Briar University world.
• Elle Kennedy - The Deal. The cleanest starting point for the Off-Campus screen adaptation.
• Hannah Grace - Icebreaker. External read-alike for hockey romance and campus chaos.
• Ali Hazelwood - The Love Hypothesis. Another fast contemporary romance with a screen route.
• Julia Quinn - The Viscount Who Loved Me. For readers who want a romance franchise built around one couple per book.

1. Does Dean's confidence make him more honest or less honest at the start?
2. How does Allie's breakup shape what she thinks she is allowed to want?
3. Where does the book use hockey as texture rather than plot?
4. Which friendships help the romance, and which ones add pressure?
5. What should Prime Video preserve from the book: Dean's arc, Allie's uncertainty, or the group dynamic?
6. Does the connected-standalone structure make the romance easier to trust?
7. How does the book handle grief without turning into a different genre?
8. Would the story work without the Briar University setting?