Review: I wanted to be in the stands, wearing Ty's number, cheering that hot QB on
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 1, 2012
I do love sports romances, especially football ones, but more than that, I really love me a jerk hero. And that is Tyler: cocky, rude, surly, bold, arrogant, and deliberately antagonistic at times. For some reason, I always find that charming. Don't ask me, I don't really know why, might have to do with that delicious play-by-play you get when you put said jerk hero with a spunky woman who can hold her own. With Ty and Lavender together, it felt snappy, the chemistry tight, and the sexual tension always bristling. I loved how they interacted, how they teased each other, tested each other, and played off each other.Ty: I'm falling in dislike with you.L: I'm already there. It's nice to know we're on the same page.Ty: It's not just a page, it's a whole book.L: Like you would know. Have you ever read an entire book?Ty: Sweetheart, I can read your book just fine.And you know he's all smug and over-confident and fine while telling her this. And she's riled up and feeling it. I love that. Lots of good tension and chemistry between these two. That was a scene early on, and the verbal foreplay got sexier, which led to some scorching sex scenes. In the back of his truck, on the dock, in the shower, on a plane: what can I say, the man is an athlete. It's supposed to be just some fun, no-strings sex while Ty is stuck on the island for ninety days due to his uncle's will, but you know 'just sex' turns into something more. And that was sweet, too. That scene where he puts her hand over his heart, all vulnerable and wanting her, that scene left me smiling.I was talking to a friend about why we like jerk heroes, and it all comes down to seeing such a hero's redemption. This reader has to see that the hero is more than that jerky persona, that he becomes something more because of the heroine, because of how she makes him feel, how she makes him change. And I got that here with Ty. I liked Lavender, her curvy self, her will, and I felt for her and what she was going through in the story, but I was feeling Ty big time. I've never read this author before, and I really liked what I read here. She gave me a hero who was jerk and charm, all at the same time.FORWARD PASSES is book 2 in the series, and it's where I started, but that didn't leave me confused or left out. Super hot read, lots of well-written sex, a pretty long story, too, some nice emotion, and a message about finding family, lost and new. All around, a really very good and very sexy read.Book 1Fourth and GoalBook 2 FORWARD PASSESBook 3 Down By Contact (early 2013)