Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩
This book was solidly OK. I enjoyed reading it, and it was a good mix of funny and spicy...but after 250 pages I can't really even tell you what happened. In some ways that is cool. Reading a romance with no huge crisis or grand gesture was oddly satisfying. At its heart, this was just a book about two hot sports nerds hooking up and navigating the annoyances of real life. As a cozy sports romance, this was a delight. However, if you are looking for character growth or people resolving their issues like adults, this is not the romance for you. When the story (abruptly?) wraps up we still have two people who have not made any major commitments to each other experiencing a relationship that one of them won't even make public. They don't communicate (Spencer can't even complete a sentence) or formulate any plan to reconcile the differences in personalities, financial status and life plans. No side characters do anything except be tropey archetypes and even the "focal point" daughter remains a generic kid. All we get is a HFN between some people whose primary shared activity is (albeit scorchingly hot) sex. I mean, I don't hate it, but I would have loved a more thoughtfully crafted romance with this collection of characters.
Published on 9 January 2024 by Harlequin Romance/ Carina Press
Book #107 of 2023
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