Review: Great new author to enjoy!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2013
Knowing the Score is the debut book for Kat Latham and begins a series about a team of British rugby players known as the London Legends.  I really enjoyed this book for several reasons.  First of all it was well written and the characters were easy to read about.  Secondly, I am a lover of all things British and was fortunate enough to be in London a few years ago when their national team was in a big world cup game. Our American sports frenzy has nothing on the Brits so I understood the motivation behind some of the events in the book.Caitlyn Sweeney is a.. Gasp.. virgin! It's hard to change that state when you are a  27 year old  American waste water treatment engineer who goes all over the globe to help out in crisis situations. Her particular specialty is setting up sanitary systems for women in hard hit areas. She is based in London and saves an elderly man having a heart attack in the park near her home and meets his grandson Spencer at the hospital.  Spencer Bailey is the popular rugby player whose underwear ad is on a street she walks on every day.  Interestingly, Caitlyn doesn't recognize him because she has never looked up at the face part of the ad.I liked that this story involves two people who have to work through secrets about their past and not let those secrets rule their present.  Caitlyn has come from a much worse situation than Spence and can't allow herself to trust in her feelings. Spencer is a big guy and fears that he is too much of a brute for Caitlyn.  They inadvertently feed into the biggest fear of the other but manage to get through that for the most part and develop a loving relationship. The sexy scenes are hot!  After some serious misunderstandings, love triumphs.This book is fun to read when you start getting into the language issues between the two versions of English spoken by our two countries.  I also enjoyed the information about rugby which is a pretty amazing game to watch.  I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series which comes out in April of 2014.