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You Had Your Chance, Lee Burrows
by Piper Rayne
What better way to end the new year, than by reading a deliciously fun and spicy sports romance? The first in a new sports romance series focused around football by Piper Rayne, You Had Your Chance, Lee Burrows, was fantastic!
Lee Burrows, star quarterback of the San Francisco Kingsmen NFL team has a blast from the past when the woman whose heart he broke in college, Shayna Kudrow, is hired as a sports therapist for their football team. He desperately wants to make amends, but she wants nothing to do with him. Girlfriend can hold a grudge… but their chemistry is off the charts and she can only hold out for so long before she gives in. But it's against team policy to have a relationship between players and staff… so is either willing to take a chance on each other over their career?
I really enjoyed this book. Lee could be the typical star player, and play the field in all the stereotypical ways. But he really isn't. He is quite humble and down to earth, with a strong work ethic and moral compass. You can really tell his character genuinely feels bad for how he treated Shayna in college and is heartfelt when wanting to make amends. Shayna is a strong, fierce and independent woman. I love that her character has a career in a profession that is primarily male-dominated. Your inner feminist will come out to root for Shayna and the struggles she faces to get where she wants to be in her profession.
I do wish we had gotten more details about their time together in college and the events leading up to their break-up. This could have easily been incorporated by writing in some flashback scenes from both character perspectives. We only get their thoughts that touch on those events, and while you get the gist of it, it could have been more fleshed out in details.
Overall this is a strong start to a new series, and I look forward to reading more about the rest of Kingsmen players!
Tags: sports romance, workplace romance, second chance romance
Spice: 2.5 peppers
First person/Dual POV
*I was given an advance reader copy from Valentine PR in exchange for an honest review*
Lee Burrows, star quarterback of the San Francisco Kingsmen NFL team has a blast from the past when the woman whose heart he broke in college, Shayna Kudrow, is hired as a sports therapist for their football team. He desperately wants to make amends, but she wants nothing to do with him. Girlfriend can hold a grudge… but their chemistry is off the charts and she can only hold out for so long before she gives in. But it's against team policy to have a relationship between players and staff… so is either willing to take a chance on each other over their career?
I really enjoyed this book. Lee could be the typical star player, and play the field in all the stereotypical ways. But he really isn't. He is quite humble and down to earth, with a strong work ethic and moral compass. You can really tell his character genuinely feels bad for how he treated Shayna in college and is heartfelt when wanting to make amends. Shayna is a strong, fierce and independent woman. I love that her character has a career in a profession that is primarily male-dominated. Your inner feminist will come out to root for Shayna and the struggles she faces to get where she wants to be in her profession.
I do wish we had gotten more details about their time together in college and the events leading up to their break-up. This could have easily been incorporated by writing in some flashback scenes from both character perspectives. We only get their thoughts that touch on those events, and while you get the gist of it, it could have been more fleshed out in details.
Overall this is a strong start to a new series, and I look forward to reading more about the rest of Kingsmen players!
Tags: sports romance, workplace romance, second chance romance
Spice: 2.5 peppers
First person/Dual POV
*I was given an advance reader copy from Valentine PR in exchange for an honest review*