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A review by mirandadarrow
Fumbled by Alexa Martin
4.0
I loved this book. It has great voice, super characters, and a mostly realistic plot.
One isolated rant - I'm going to get mom-judgy because I was a single mom. Why is her only job working in a nightclub when her only child is 9? I have a 9-year-old now. They go to school during the day. The daytime hours are a great time of day for a working single mom to earn some money, at a job, where they give you health insurance, which is damn important if you don't have someone else covering your child's insurance, which Poppy did not. And you don't have to pay someone else to watch your kid every night when you go to work. That bugged me. Of course, she can make a lot more money at night, but enough to make up for no insurance, paying for babysitting (which is not cheap), and worth being away from her kid every minute that she works, when she could be working when he's in school and won't miss her? Take a job with his school district so you have off all the days he does. Maybe it made sense for the years when her aunt was still alive and they were living together, she had free babysitting for every shift. But the aunt has been gone for a while. Long enough for Poppy to figure out she needs to find a day job until Ace is old enough to be a latch-key kid without someone calling CPS on her. I knew lots of single parents when I used to go to Parents Without Partners meetings. I could believe it more if Poppy worked at this nightclub while her aunt was alive, and now only works certain shifts for extra money when she can line up a sitter. But this is set up that she's staring at the walls not making any money and not fixing the squeaking fence all day everyday while Ace is in school and then gone every night working at the club.
Okay, done with that rant. I know they wanted it for the meet-cute. It was a sweet meet-cute. I liked TK and Poppy. I was almost worried that this romance wouldn't have enough conflict to sustain it, as they clearly both had feelings for each other still. There was the big secret of Ace's parentage, and that was handled realistically and pretty well. And then, things were sailing along. Almost too easy. The author did a good job of bringing in the dark moment organically through the plot. I was glad that the author addressed that issue, and won't name it for spoiler avoidance.
I'm definitely reading the rest of this series. Super easy-fun read, read it in a day. Great voice in this, and I know the author has lived the experience of an NFL wife. I liked that it was from just Poppy's POV and not the usual back and forth of most romance novels. I liked how we had to keep guessing what TK was thinking, just like Poppy was left wondering.
Overall a great read.
One isolated rant - I'm going to get mom-judgy because I was a single mom. Why is her only job working in a nightclub when her only child is 9? I have a 9-year-old now. They go to school during the day. The daytime hours are a great time of day for a working single mom to earn some money, at a job, where they give you health insurance, which is damn important if you don't have someone else covering your child's insurance, which Poppy did not. And you don't have to pay someone else to watch your kid every night when you go to work. That bugged me. Of course, she can make a lot more money at night, but enough to make up for no insurance, paying for babysitting (which is not cheap), and worth being away from her kid every minute that she works, when she could be working when he's in school and won't miss her? Take a job with his school district so you have off all the days he does. Maybe it made sense for the years when her aunt was still alive and they were living together, she had free babysitting for every shift. But the aunt has been gone for a while. Long enough for Poppy to figure out she needs to find a day job until Ace is old enough to be a latch-key kid without someone calling CPS on her. I knew lots of single parents when I used to go to Parents Without Partners meetings. I could believe it more if Poppy worked at this nightclub while her aunt was alive, and now only works certain shifts for extra money when she can line up a sitter. But this is set up that she's staring at the walls not making any money and not fixing the squeaking fence all day everyday while Ace is in school and then gone every night working at the club.
Okay, done with that rant. I know they wanted it for the meet-cute. It was a sweet meet-cute. I liked TK and Poppy. I was almost worried that this romance wouldn't have enough conflict to sustain it, as they clearly both had feelings for each other still. There was the big secret of Ace's parentage, and that was handled realistically and pretty well. And then, things were sailing along. Almost too easy. The author did a good job of bringing in the dark moment organically through the plot. I was glad that the author addressed that issue, and won't name it for spoiler avoidance.
I'm definitely reading the rest of this series. Super easy-fun read, read it in a day. Great voice in this, and I know the author has lived the experience of an NFL wife. I liked that it was from just Poppy's POV and not the usual back and forth of most romance novels. I liked how we had to keep guessing what TK was thinking, just like Poppy was left wondering.
Overall a great read.