A review by mccorbin
Rushing the Goal by Toni Aleo

4.0

I hate feeling like a broken record and I feel like I have been broken for sometime, saying the same thing over and over again. “It was a good book. The guy was perfection. The girl, however, was just too standoffish and headstrong about her independence.” That is all I feel like I am saying anymore and it makes me sad. I want a guy who is willing to bend over backwards for his girl and rearrange the whole world so that she can smile but I also want a girl who has the strength to rearrange her whole world herself but also knows when to let someone step in and in this book, it took a while for that to happen. Lucy was just kinda straight out mean at first! While she needed a great man in her life, sometimes I felt that Benji was too good for her and too forgiving to her. But Angie, Lucy’s daughter, dang, that girl won my heart over. It was kinda worth all of Lucy’s moments to see how wonderful Angie and Benji got along.

Now I am not saying that I didn’t like this book – I honestly did like it a lot. So please don’t let me ruin it with my above rant. It just feels like this is all I am reading anymore and I just want both of my characters on even ground so they can grab hands and take off running towards a sunset and in a glorious relationship.

That being said, I thought “Rushing the Goal” was a good addition to Aleo’s series – a series which we have loved from the start.