Review: Worth the Fight
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2014
This is the first MMA book I’ve ever read. Normally, I steer clear of them. The violence in the cage is sometimes too much for me to handle.That being said, I was surprised to find this book more focused on Jack and Chrissy than on Jack’s fighting. Not a bad thing, by the way. Getting to know Jack outside of the cage helped ease the way to reading about his fight where he fought with passion, strength, and intelligence. He was injured, to be expected, but it didn’t diminish the fact that he was good in the cage.The hard part was convincing Chrissy that he was always as careful as possible when he fought. Unbeknownst to him, Chrissy’s past when she left their small town is why she struggles to accept his MMA career. Which, now that I think about it, was at odds with the field work she did in third-world countries as a traveling doctor. Both careers are dangerous and have considerable risks. The violence encountered in the field and in the cage is still violence, right?Then there’s Chrissy’s relationship with her brother Slade. It’s…strained. Words spoken in a drunken rage caused the rift between them and cost them years. It took an accident for them to talk about what happened all those years ago and begin rebuilding their relationship.Despite the fact that Slade is Jack’s best friend, and Chrissy is Slade’s little sister, Jack and Chrissy’s relationship was all about them. Slade’s relationship with either of them wasn’t really a factor, which was kind of nice. There was no elephant in the room between them.I like this story, Ms. Halston. There was a lot of violence to be seen, thanks to Slade’s underground fighting, but you balanced it nicely with the romance developing between Jack and Chrissy. Fast-paced fun, snappy dialogue, and boiling chemistry make this a terrific opening story for the WtF (Worth the Fight) series, and I can’t wait to read the next one (Full Contact: [...]) coming this October.***Received from Tasty Book Tours for an honest review***