Briar U Books in Order

Briar U is the direct next step after Off-Campus, staying in the same college world while shifting the spotlight to a new batch of students, roommates, rivals, and hockey players. If Off-Campus feels like the original friend-group era, Briar U feels like the aftershock, same campus, same energy, new people making equally messy choices.

The series opens with The Chase, which throws Summer Di Laurentis into a house with Colin Fitzgerald and his friends. From there, The Risk brings Brenna Jensen and Harvard player Jake Connelly into a fake-dating setup with real consequences. The Play follows Hunter Davenport and Demi Davis, while The Dare centers on Taylor Marsh and Conor Edwards after a humiliating sorority challenge turns into something more complicated.

The Briar world keeps expanding.

That is one of the pleasures of the series. Older characters still pop in, but not in a way that takes over. Instead, their presence makes the campus feel continuous, like one class graduates and another takes its place. The hockey thread is still important, but these books are also about roommates, internships, social pressure, toxic Greek-life dynamics, and the strange mix of confidence and panic that comes with being almost done with college.

Compared with Off-Campus, the Briar U books can feel a little sharper and a little more self-aware. The characters are still funny and hot-headed, but they are often dealing with more public scrutiny, bigger identity questions, or slightly more tangled emotional histories. Kennedy keeps the tone lively, though. There is a lot of flirting, a lot of banter, and plenty of the friend-group texture that makes her campus books so bingeable.

If you loved Off-Campus, this is the natural place to go next. If you have not read Off-Campus, you can still follow Briar U, but the returning faces and long-running connections land better when you know where everyone came from.

This series feels like college romance with the volume turned up just enough.