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The Crush by Karla Sorensen

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lclarke615's review

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

missbookreader's review

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emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

delilahmay194's review

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2.0

DNF 45%

It just didn’t make me care enough. Also, FMC was hella confusing with the whole thing. Like she’s an emotional rollercoaster that doesn’t read right.

jkowalski87's review

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

beckyrendon's review against another edition

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5.0

Once you go Wolves, you never go back

I have and always will be a Wolves fan. It was hard to see Emmett take on a different team. He needed to spread his wings and come into his own but I will admit it stung.

Now I see it as the path he needed to come full circle. He wouldn't have realized his need, his love, or his loss without his time away.

What started as The Crush is everything they ever wanted. It will leave you with shiny eyes and a blinding smile. Wolves or no wolves, Emmett and Adaline are goals!

bookish_kristina's review against another edition

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3.0

This one was a high three star, mainly because of the hero. He was my favourite kind of man; responsible, respectful, sweet, understanding and strong. The story itself was a little frustrating, an instalove with a slow burn, where the heroine kept pushing the hero away for completely solvable reasons and I wanted to wring her neck. Also this was sort of a second chance romance but it always felt like it had something missing. We know they used to be friendly and crush on each other in college, and that he turned her down when he got drafted and she asked him to explore their feelings. So they were never really together, and we only ever really get the smallest of glimpses into their time before present day. It was just never fully believable to me how or why they fell in love. They really were together only two nights in the whole book, and since we never really saw them during their youthful crush, I had no idea how he just knew she was the one for him. Lots of telling, with little showing here.
He kind of just decided she was ‘it’ out of nowhere and then started making moves towards her. She pushed him away time and again because he was an athlete and she had baggage from an ex athlete boyfriend, he lived in another city and she needed to stay near her family. But she quickly abandoned those issues near the end like they hadn’t been major barriers to why they couldn’t be together the WHOLE BOOK. I just need more substance to my plots than this book really had. But it was a nice story, can absolutely NOT be read as a stand-alone, you need to have read about 3 other entire series to be able to keep the stories and characters straight, which I have read and still needed to refresh my memory, but a sweet hero who works to give his girl everything. Just not really sure I know why he wanted her for his girl?
But Sorensen is a great writer and has great side characters and glimpses into former characters’ lives and she does a great job writing sports romance. This one wasn’t her best, but it had its moments.