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3.15 AVERAGE
3.15 AVERAGE
The characters had 0 chemistry and was painful to read.
This book was like cotton candy, it's cute and fun but it just sort of dissolves away to nothingness. Like, it didn't do anything wrong, it just also didn't really do...anything...at all. It reads like a first draft. A really good first draft, but one that desperately needed work to further develop the plot, the characters, and the central relationship.
Now, full honesty, I read this randomly after looking for a fast, easy audiobook readily available from my library. I didn't look into it at all and if I had I probably wouldn't have read it. I love baseball and think I might really love a baseball romance one day, but I also have been a fan of Taylor Swift since her debut album came out when I was 11 years old and do not care to read about thinly disguised versions of her. Thinly disguised versions of real celebrities always seem so hollow, in my opinion, and it being someone whose career I am so familiar with only makes it worse.
Still, I had some fun listening to this. It moves so fast and Cotugno's writing is very breezy. It's just also a very inconsistently assembled book. The stop and go of the relationship feels forced and rushed. The sex scenes alternate how explicit or tame they are in a way that I couldn't make sense of. Also, the ending is a mess. I was genuinely caught off guard when the narration stopped. I'd been expecting at least one more chapter to wrap everything up, to show characters keeping their word and facing the fears and problems that they'd just discussed. Instead it just cuts off. Technically the main couple comes to a resolution, but I think it could've been shown to us more rather than just promised. And that's not even to mention the side characters, who the ending almost entirely ignores.
I feel like I'm being mean, because again this book is not doing anything actually bad, but it's frustrating to dive into a book and find a draft instead. This thing is screaming for another pass, for someone to really pursue the themes and complications that only get glanced at in this version. What's delivered instead is just so undeniably wanting.
Now, full honesty, I read this randomly after looking for a fast, easy audiobook readily available from my library. I didn't look into it at all and if I had I probably wouldn't have read it. I love baseball and think I might really love a baseball romance one day, but I also have been a fan of Taylor Swift since her debut album came out when I was 11 years old and do not care to read about thinly disguised versions of her. Thinly disguised versions of real celebrities always seem so hollow, in my opinion, and it being someone whose career I am so familiar with only makes it worse.
Still, I had some fun listening to this. It moves so fast and Cotugno's writing is very breezy. It's just also a very inconsistently assembled book. The stop and go of the relationship feels forced and rushed. The sex scenes alternate how explicit or tame they are in a way that I couldn't make sense of. Also, the ending is a mess. I was genuinely caught off guard when the narration stopped. I'd been expecting at least one more chapter to wrap everything up, to show characters keeping their word and facing the fears and problems that they'd just discussed. Instead it just cuts off. Technically the main couple comes to a resolution, but I think it could've been shown to us more rather than just promised. And that's not even to mention the side characters, who the ending almost entirely ignores.
I feel like I'm being mean, because again this book is not doing anything actually bad, but it's frustrating to dive into a book and find a draft instead. This thing is screaming for another pass, for someone to really pursue the themes and complications that only get glanced at in this version. What's delivered instead is just so undeniably wanting.
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
They had like the same exact argument multiple times throughout the book. Also, we never even found out if he won the World Series and I am not a fan of that quite frankly.
This was not the worst baseball romance I have read. There were lots of baseball things referenced in here that I really enjoyed. However, please let this be my official application to whoever is writing a baseball romance to let me proof read it so that I can help make sure it’s accurate. You don’t even have to let me read the whole thing, just the baseball scenes.
Also, this book was so incredibly horny for being just over 200 pages long.
This was not the worst baseball romance I have read. There were lots of baseball things referenced in here that I really enjoyed. However, please let this be my official application to whoever is writing a baseball romance to let me proof read it so that I can help make sure it’s accurate. You don’t even have to let me read the whole thing, just the baseball scenes.
Also, this book was so incredibly horny for being just over 200 pages long.
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
1.5/5🌶️
Ugggggggg I wanna know if they win the seriesssss there’s no epilogue 😭😫
Cute and fluffy but not really any relationship development it felt very superficial. There wasn’t any real tension or build up to them being in a relationship
Ugggggggg I wanna know if they win the seriesssss there’s no epilogue 😭😫
Cute and fluffy but not really any relationship development it felt very superficial. There wasn’t any real tension or build up to them being in a relationship
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
Did the mains even like each other? Jimmy had more affection for his teammates and Lacey had more connection to her publicist.
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail