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A review by readerpants
Fumbled by Alexa Martin
5.0
Ripped Bodice Bingo 2019: either wine & spirits or costume.
I haven't read Intercepted yet, but I have a copy thanks to my fabulous reader buddy / hairdresser and I am now bumping it way up the list. I really enjoyed this!
I liked:
-Smooth, effortless-feeling writing! Great voice.
-Poppy! There is a lot to like about Poppy. I liked Maya too even though I never met her.
- LADY FRIENDS!!
-not dissing strippers and waitresses in the club where she works in the beginning. THANK YOU.
-honestly, all the names. Small but true. Poppy is a great name, and so is Ace. And Sparks is a freaking adorable nickname, it works so well.
-the plot, including the CTE storyline.
-TK! I was very uncertain about whether I'd like him, especially after the weird blowup where he said she was lying (WTAF). But he was a really good hero and a good partner: he listened, he learned, he apologized, he paid attention.
-You know when you're reading a book and you're like, wow, this romance author is an expert in maritime history or eels or whatever? and then it turns out she has a master's degree in that area? And there's that very tangible pleasure of hearing somebody write about an area in which they have obvious, rare expertise and insight? That very much came through with the author's knowledge of being a football spouse.
Didn't like as much:
- I was really thrown by TK's initial angry reaction to learning about Ace, and I don't think he grovelled sufficiently. It would have taken me personally a long time to get over feeling wary.
- There were times when Poppy was like, man, he is so hot I'm totally angry but I can't get over how hot he is. And I just... I don't know what that didn't work for me, I couldn't really believe he was THAT hot that it could distract her from everything else? This might be a "just not how I roll" thing though.
Overall highly recommended, especially for women's fiction readers who are moving over into romance. It's got steamy bits but not a ton -- a little like Jasmine Guillory or Helen Hoang.
I haven't read Intercepted yet, but I have a copy thanks to my fabulous reader buddy / hairdresser and I am now bumping it way up the list. I really enjoyed this!
I liked:
-Smooth, effortless-feeling writing! Great voice.
-Poppy! There is a lot to like about Poppy. I liked Maya too even though I never met her.
- LADY FRIENDS!!
-not dissing strippers and waitresses in the club where she works in the beginning. THANK YOU.
-honestly, all the names. Small but true. Poppy is a great name, and so is Ace. And Sparks is a freaking adorable nickname, it works so well.
-the plot, including the CTE storyline.
-TK! I was very uncertain about whether I'd like him, especially after the weird blowup where he said she was lying (WTAF). But he was a really good hero and a good partner: he listened, he learned, he apologized, he paid attention.
-You know when you're reading a book and you're like, wow, this romance author is an expert in maritime history or eels or whatever? and then it turns out she has a master's degree in that area? And there's that very tangible pleasure of hearing somebody write about an area in which they have obvious, rare expertise and insight? That very much came through with the author's knowledge of being a football spouse.
Didn't like as much:
- I was really thrown by TK's initial angry reaction to learning about Ace, and I don't think he grovelled sufficiently. It would have taken me personally a long time to get over feeling wary.
- There were times when Poppy was like, man, he is so hot I'm totally angry but I can't get over how hot he is. And I just... I don't know what that didn't work for me, I couldn't really believe he was THAT hot that it could distract her from everything else? This might be a "just not how I roll" thing though.
Overall highly recommended, especially for women's fiction readers who are moving over into romance. It's got steamy bits but not a ton -- a little like Jasmine Guillory or Helen Hoang.