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mskaydee's review
4.0
This book has not aged super well (especially the MMC), but if you can get past that, it’s still a banger.
cleelovessmut's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
yodamom's review
4.0
Bobby Tom is a broken ex football player. His knee was damaged during a game that ended his life time love of playing football. He is also the player known to woman around the globe, a lier, and an egomaniac. But Bobby Tom is not a bad guy he loves people and helping people is his #1 goal, unfortunately everyone takes.
Gracie Snow is a small town 30 year old virgin who has lived a very sheltered life working in a retirement home. When she get an offer for job with a movie production company she jumps on the chance to change things up and hopefully loose that V-card. I wish she would have stopped degrading her looks, that was the one thing I didn't care for.
Yes, it sounds cliche' I know, but it wasn't Gracie is a force that slowly comes out to shine and cement her place in the world. She demands to stand on her own, and does no waver. She is kind, generous and the thorn in Bobby Toms side. He is the typical jock we have all seen on TV, but not behind the facade. He acts like a bully when he doesn't get his way, By does he screw up. What I'm trying to tell you that even if there is the predictable HEA the path is not straight it is jagged.
This was a very slow played out romance with great side characters
Gracie Snow is a small town 30 year old virgin who has lived a very sheltered life working in a retirement home. When she get an offer for job with a movie production company she jumps on the chance to change things up and hopefully loose that V-card. I wish she would have stopped degrading her looks, that was the one thing I didn't care for.
Yes, it sounds cliche' I know, but it wasn't Gracie is a force that slowly comes out to shine and cement her place in the world. She demands to stand on her own, and does no waver. She is kind, generous and the thorn in Bobby Toms side. He is the typical jock we have all seen on TV, but not behind the facade. He acts like a bully when he doesn't get his way, By does he screw up. What I'm trying to tell you that even if there is the predictable HEA the path is not straight it is jagged.
This was a very slow played out romance with great side characters
agnesgailx's review
4.0
I didn't love this as much as I did her other books, but it was still pretty good. It just took me a little while to get into it. Maybe because I didn't like Bobby Tom at first very much. But it got better a few chapters in.
The plot is basically the same as every other book in the series, but it's still entertaing. SEP's writing is just never boring!
The plot is basically the same as every other book in the series, but it's still entertaing. SEP's writing is just never boring!
cobaltbookshelf's review
1.0
At least in first one I liked the girl, I can't say that here in middle I give up caring about anything I just wanted to be over.
book_concierge's review
1.0
ZERO stars
Digital audiobook read by Anna Fields
Book # 2 in the Chicago Stars romance series.
From the book jacketIt’s Gracie Snow’s job as a new motion picture production assistant to get the legendary ex-football player, Bobby Tom Denton, back to his Texas hometown to begin shooting his first movie. Good luck with that. A head-spinning battle of the sexes – with Beauty waging war against Brains – except this male beauty has a fine intelligence, and brainy Gracie isn’t nearly as ordinary as she thinks.
My reactions:
No. Just No.
Phillips frequently states that Bobby Tom is a gentleman, with fine manners. HA!
A “gentleman” does NOT play mind games for his own amusement to trick a virgin into succumbing to him so that he can then drop her like a hot potato when the fun is over. (Even if eventually, he will fall in love with her and propose, his intention from the outset is to just use her.) And if one scumbag isn't enough, Phillips gives us a second. Past hurt does not give a man a free get-out-jail card to blackmail a woman into having sex (of course, he has secretly admired her for decades and would never “really” hurt her). There is nothing remotely romantic or appealing about these scenarios. Shame on Phillips for propagating such a misogynistic message.
Anna Fields does a reasonably good job of narrating the audiobook. She handles the many characters with skill and kept up a good pace. Too bad she had such dreadful material to perform.
Digital audiobook read by Anna Fields
Book # 2 in the Chicago Stars romance series.
From the book jacketIt’s Gracie Snow’s job as a new motion picture production assistant to get the legendary ex-football player, Bobby Tom Denton, back to his Texas hometown to begin shooting his first movie. Good luck with that. A head-spinning battle of the sexes – with Beauty waging war against Brains – except this male beauty has a fine intelligence, and brainy Gracie isn’t nearly as ordinary as she thinks.
My reactions:
No. Just No.
Phillips frequently states that Bobby Tom is a gentleman, with fine manners. HA!
A “gentleman” does NOT play mind games for his own amusement to trick a virgin into succumbing to him so that he can then drop her like a hot potato when the fun is over. (Even if eventually, he will fall in love with her and propose, his intention from the outset is to just use her.) And if one scumbag isn't enough, Phillips gives us a second. Past hurt does not give a man a free get-out-jail card to blackmail a woman into having sex (of course, he has secretly admired her for decades and would never “really” hurt her). There is nothing remotely romantic or appealing about these scenarios. Shame on Phillips for propagating such a misogynistic message.
Anna Fields does a reasonably good job of narrating the audiobook. She handles the many characters with skill and kept up a good pace. Too bad she had such dreadful material to perform.
lutheranjulia's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-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
minxreads's review
Had to skim read. I just knew from the beginning it wasn’t for me but still pushed through it. Anyway, I didn’t like the plot, the characters or anything about this book. The hero seems like a man child and heroine is naive in an annoying way, there’s no oomph factor about her.
Plus, story ends without any epilogue too.
Ending: HFN
Plus, story ends without any epilogue too.
Ending: HFN
alexandra4's review
2.0
Una trama predecible, pero al menos entretenida. Me molestó un poco la manera tan abrupta en que los personajes cambiaban su manera de pensar o sentir (creo que la historia daba para desarrollarse mejor).
amlibera's review
3.0
Old school, alpha male romance novel- lots of details that aren't really my jam like the Texas setting and the football culture. But there was a fun nostalgic feeling reading it.