Review: What to say? The price was good
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2014
I think I found this book through one of the newsletters I received, it sounded like my cup of tea and it was cheap. I love a good sports romance. Sadly the execution was really lacking. The lay out on my Kindle was bad and the stories themselves were strangely written. The potential was there, the ideas were there but the final product wasn't up to standard. The stories were choppy and although most followed on and we did get the end of each story, they were divided up into parts. It's as if they had been written in a serial form and then published all together here.The sex scenes were definitely lacking and very similar through all the books. Fortunately there weren't too many.+++Spoilers+++The premises in a few of the books across the series also had some similarities. For example h gets dumped by an ex who then goes on to be a big star elsewhere and finds new woman but realises his mistake after a few years and comes back to try and get the h back. In both of the cases I'm thinking about, the h then wavers even though she is with her H, who is a great guy.The premise for the Going Long series really got me because it was so unbelievable that the father didn't speak to the eldest daughter for 10 years because of her decisions but with the other sisters he behaves better. He made good choices with them but never goes back to repair things with the eldest. Sorry it really wore on my nerves for the 4 stories included in the set.In general when I think of the books, I get the impression that most of the hs had had hard times, been dumped by their first loves and then kind of 'settled' with other guys. It's hard to explain but perhaps this is one of the biggest issues I had with the writing. It was particularly bad in the MMA story at the beginning. I felt the scenes with the h and her ex were way better than when she finally gets together with the H. In fact I really thought the ex was going to be the H.Anyway this set didn't do it for me and I can't recommend it.