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Beneath the Stands by Emily McIntire
4.0

I do have to say that his book was a full step up from the first book. The characters were more developed, and the plot was not fully reliant on the pasts of the characters. I went into this book thinking that it was going to be like the first and it was not.

Becca, the female main character, struggles with family issues because of the reputation that they have built in the town of Sugarlake with their church. While she is at university, she decides that she does not want to return back home and make a name for her own. This throws a wrench in her life, when she has to get a job and falls in love with her boss. Eli, the male main character, is a coach for the basketball team at the university, where Becca goes. When they run into each other at Becca's interview their lives turn upside down and they fall in love. Their intricate relation goes deeper than what is on the surface, when they are both challenged by the real world and what happens after family finds out what their plans are.

Overall, this was a change from the first book and has me wanting to read the rest of the series. I love Emily Mcintire's books and am excited to read more and more of her repertoire.