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A review by lovelylady
The Locker Room by Meghan Quinn
4.0
Spoilers Ahead... Proceed with caution
What a delightful read! Absolutely adored Knox and Emory is so sassy but sweet! A totally delightful pair that was a joy to read as they dance around one another, or really she skirts him best she can.
Emory is broken by a 6year relationship gone bad. She's trying to put her life back together and rediscover who she is. Enter the schools star Baseball player, who is charming as all get-out, madly infatuated with her, and willing to take all sorts of verbal rejection from her as she tries to protect herself and him from something she doesn't think can last.
Enter more conflict. When they DO get together a ridiculous bet is placed that limits their sexual contact. I found this plot device VERY thin. I would have liked it more had the author chosen Emory's history as the reason to hold off on sex instead of them just trying to out do the other in the "I can resist you" department. This knocked half a star for me.
And then came the real blow. The break-up was perfectly timed and perfectly reasonable. He's leaving, going into the draft where he'll finally make his dreams of being a Major League Player a reality, but not before playing for a farm team for a while. Em knows she's a distraction, and that she won't handle long distance well, or the lack of time spent together between his travel and practice schedule and her Master's program. All of this is legit and acceptable.
The EIGHT YEAR timelapse is NOT! She lives in the same city he plays for. This is not rocket science. Knox is completely justified in how unbelievably pissed off he is to discover this. Each had relationships in the time apart, forcing themselves to be unfair to other people since their hearts were never free to be given to someone new. This with the other half star... Eight years was just wayyyyy too long. And the unnecessary freak out after they sleep together? Really? That was just uncalled for!
But here's the take away. Extremely well written rollercoaster and while I say I'd change shit ... I wouldn't! It was funny, witty, the Pride and Prejudice conversation out the gate was f**king perfect! Meghan Quinn is my new binge read, and I'm gonna devour the rest of her catalogue. Thanks for a great book Ms. Quinn!
What a delightful read! Absolutely adored Knox and Emory is so sassy but sweet! A totally delightful pair that was a joy to read as they dance around one another, or really she skirts him best she can.
Emory is broken by a 6year relationship gone bad. She's trying to put her life back together and rediscover who she is. Enter the schools star Baseball player, who is charming as all get-out, madly infatuated with her, and willing to take all sorts of verbal rejection from her as she tries to protect herself and him from something she doesn't think can last.
Enter more conflict. When they DO get together a ridiculous bet is placed that limits their sexual contact. I found this plot device VERY thin. I would have liked it more had the author chosen Emory's history as the reason to hold off on sex instead of them just trying to out do the other in the "I can resist you" department. This knocked half a star for me.
And then came the real blow. The break-up was perfectly timed and perfectly reasonable. He's leaving, going into the draft where he'll finally make his dreams of being a Major League Player a reality, but not before playing for a farm team for a while. Em knows she's a distraction, and that she won't handle long distance well, or the lack of time spent together between his travel and practice schedule and her Master's program. All of this is legit and acceptable.
The EIGHT YEAR timelapse is NOT! She lives in the same city he plays for. This is not rocket science. Knox is completely justified in how unbelievably pissed off he is to discover this. Each had relationships in the time apart, forcing themselves to be unfair to other people since their hearts were never free to be given to someone new. This with the other half star... Eight years was just wayyyyy too long. And the unnecessary freak out after they sleep together? Really? That was just uncalled for!
But here's the take away. Extremely well written rollercoaster and while I say I'd change shit ... I wouldn't! It was funny, witty, the Pride and Prejudice conversation out the gate was f**king perfect! Meghan Quinn is my new binge read, and I'm gonna devour the rest of her catalogue. Thanks for a great book Ms. Quinn!