Reviews with content warning for Cursing - The Chase

I wanted to read this book because I wanted to discover more authors this year. Elle Kennedy is everywhere on Tiktok and Instagram. So, I thought I would give her try and I really enjoyed this book.

This book has two points of views. The first one is Summer Di Laurentis, she is a rich, fun girl who has just been kicked out of Brown university after setting fire to the sorority house. She is now at Briar U, she did have a sorority house lined up, but when she gets there – the head of sorority kicks her out after hearing what she did at Brown. She has nowhere to go and just went she’s lost all hope, her brother Dean, rings her and asks her how she was settling in. Dean says he will call in a favour and get it sorted. So now, Summer is living with his old hockey team, which isn’t the best as she is drawn to Colin Fitzgerald. The second point of view is Colin Fitzgerald, but everyone knows him as Fitz or Fitzy. He is a tattoo-covered, video gaming, hockey-playing nerd-jocks – who hates attention and just wants to play hockey, finish his game, and get his dream job, yet he can’t stop thinking of Summer and it gets even worse when his roommate Hunter claimed dibs on her. Summer thinks Colin thinks she is superficial and that he’s not interested in her, even though there are sparks flying across the room. Summer tells herself she’s not the kind of girl who chases after a man and she’s not about chase after Fitz as she’s got her hands full dealing with a new school, a sleazy professor and an uncertain future. This is an academic sports contemporary new adult romance novel.

I really liked Summer as a character – I think she is bad-ass and funny and protective of her friends and I’m like that as well, so I liked that. I love the friendship between her, and Brenna and I hope we see more of her soon. I loved Colin – I love that sort of character of yes, I’m jock but I’m a secret nerd and I’m popular and I hate it. I really enjoyed the storyline and the two points of views. This was my first college sport romance book, and I really liked it. I love the relationship between Fitz and Summer, and it gave me the vibe of dramatic girlfriend and calm boyfriend which I find hilarious, but I liked that they helped each other and drove each other crazy. I also liked that they highlighted Summer’s learning disability and how Fitz didn’t see her differently because of it.

I don’t have anything negative to say about this book, just more of my personal preference of short chapters and the miscommunication trope which happened for about 75% of this book. But it was an easy read and I hope to see more of Summer and Fitz in the next books.

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lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

this book was pretty good, but not elle kennedys best. the writing felt a little bit disjointed. some aspects of the pacing and characterization just werent great. but im still a sucker for a romance, esp an elle kennedy romance

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